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  1) Friends of Mr de Menezes, 27, said he had been in Britain for three years working as an electrician and was due to start a new job yesterday in east London.
  
  Tourists from Brazil do not require a visa but are only allowed to stay six months. If Mr de Menezes was in the country on a student visa, he should have been studying for at least 15 hours a week and would not have been entitled to work for more than 20 hours per week during term time.
  
  There is no evidence that he was enrolled at a college and, even if he was, the maximum period a student on courses below degree level can stay in this country is two years.
  
  The Telegraph
  
  2) In a carefully worded statement, the Home Office appeared to suggest that Jean Charles de Menezes had a forged stamp in his Brazilian passport giving him permission for "indefinite leave to remain" in Britain. His student visa ran out on June 30 2003.
  
  "We have seen a copy of Mr De Menezes' passport containing a stamp apparently giving him indefinite leave to remain in the UK. On investigation, this stamp was not one that was in use by the immigration and nationality directorate on the date given," a spokeswoman said.
  
  The Guardian

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