Looking at Google NGram, both are well-attested. The line on the chart for "never been here" should include every entry for "never been here before". It looks like about 60% of instances from this corpus are "never been here before", so this phrasing may be slightly privileged, but either one should be unremarkable. There was a brief period in the 1810s when "before" seems to have been required, but that looks like an unusual outlier from 200 years ago. However, "being" can act as an adjective before a noun (or a pronoun) when it is joined by other words to form a participle phrase. Upon arrival, they went straight to the Home Office, to tell them that they’d entered with false papers. “They didn’t threaten to deport us, because we had a child,” says Arberore, “but we were scared. We spent the day waiting in the Home Office. I felt so happy that I wasn’t any longer in Kosovo to be frightened, but I felt so low - like a beggar that day. We had to be fingerprinted. I thought I was going to prison, even though it was the right thing for them to do that.” There is already concern from immigration lawyers about the upbeat slanting of statistics. The Home Office likes to say that almost 1.5 million people have been granted “some form of status”, but this masks the fact that currently about 40% are getting the inferior pre-settled status, which obliges them to adhere to strict rules on continuous residence for up to a further five years or risk getting pushed out of the system. As a rule, the word "been" is always used after "to have" (in any of its forms, e.g., "has," "had," "will have," "having"). Conversely, the word "being" is never used after "to have." "Being" is used after "to be" (in any of its forms, e.g., "am," "is," "are," "was," "were").

Being" is a Present Participle. The word "being" is the present participle of the verb "to be." As such, it can be used with "be" (in all its guises) to form tenses in the progressive (or continuous) aspect. For example: Also, avoid the local water in higher-risk countries. Only drink bottled water, keep your mouth closed when you shower, and NEVER brush your teeth with tap water. I was no longer teased for being ‘other’ because we were all different in our own ways. Looking different and sounding different and being different were no longer impediments to walking down the hallway or eating lunch in the cafeteria in peace”, Samra Habib writes. They were trying to deliver the biggest, most contentious new system that any of them had likely ever worked on, while the basic requirements were changing around them, even days before they went live,” said Joe Owen, the programme director of the Institute for Government, a thinktank working to make government more effective. Owen has been tracing the development of the scheme since the EU referendum. Samra Habib does good to accentuate yet another exclusionary space- the academia, which is inclusive in the sense of understanding queer struggles, when it comes to theorizations and discussions but the very academic language creates emotional barriers- a language that is “inaccessible to those who need to be comforted most”.Rabbi Hugo Gryn said: “How you are with the one to whom you owe nothing is a grave test.” At the moment, Britain is failing that test, especially in its press coverage. As the daughter of Polish Jewish postwar asylum seekers, I’m stupefied by how the collective memory can be so short, bigotry so unabashed, and how, with all the recent interest in the Holocaust, basic connections can fail to be made. Are we doomed always to stigmatise the Other, or are these the last bleatings of the little Englander? Must compassion only ever be extended after the event? On the helpline, after much time listening to jangly hold music, the Home Office helper was both polite and honest, but had no answer as to why the app was not reading the digital code. She was advised to seek out one of the 80 designated EU settlement scheme scanning offices (in council offices and town hall register offices) where the passport could be scanned manually. Keeping a symptom diary and consulting a nutritionist have also been helpful – although Dr Small admits that some of the advice would previously have been anathema to her as an evidence-focused medic.

In later years, as Samra comes out to her family, the act is nothing short of a paradigmatic shift, as her family is forced to imagine a world they never thought had existed- or simply like many others had chosen to un-see, to overlook, to invisibilise. Yet the title asserts “we have always been here”.Moreover, the timeline of her stay in the West coincides with 9/11 which had repercussions for Muslims in myriad ways, so much so that one had to at times spell out one’s name in ways that would not sound like a Muslim name. The search for safety thus remained a constant search. However, what is heart-warming is the sense of community and solidarity as an upshot of the social circle that Samra Habib finds herself as a part of, while for her parents that sense of community comes in the form of being a part of the diaspora circles of similar kind that felt like home away from home. The word "been" is the past participle of the verb "to be." As such, it can be used with "have" (in all its guises) to form tenses in the perfect (or complete) aspect. For example: My name is David Hoffmann and for the last decade I have been traveling around the world in search of unique culture, food and history! Yet the Press Complaints Commission’s record of dealing with complaints about press reporting of asylum seekers is abysmal. The National Union of Journalists’ ethics council complained about one Daily Express headline, “Asylum: Time To Pull Down The Shutters”, claiming that it breached Clause 13 of the PCC Code of Practice, which stipulates that the press must avoid prejudicial or pejorative references to a person’s race, colour or religion.