Migrant cap on non-EU skilled immigrants will hurt UK businesses. As more British business leaders continue to lobby the government to rethink plans to cap immigration, as it has started to dawn on many companies that they will not be allowed to hire any non-European staff for the rest of the financial year.
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The UK Border Agency has published further details of a radical new programme of reform to ‘change the face of policing and re-establish the link between the police and the public, tackle organised crime and protect our borders’.
Mr Cameron, who is on a trade mission to India with other senior ministers, including Mr Cable, has said he wants to cut net immigration to levels last seen in the 1990s.
As Liberal Cable stokes revolt against Tory election pledge on strict limit, India’s commerce minister warns that the move could have an ‘adverse impact’ on relations between the two countries.
The UK Border Agency has announced new English language tests for non-European migrants applying to come to the UK to join or marry a settled or British partner.
The new body is expected to include a new border police unit, the child exploitation and online protection centre (CEOP) and parts of the National Policing Improvement Agency, which it is thought will be phased out.
The fast-track deportation of foreign nationals refused permission to remain in the UK has been declared unlawful by the High Court, the BBC reports.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron, who won much attention on his recent trip to the United States with his program of savage spending cuts, has also been sharpening his shears on another front: immigration.
Weekly Immigration News Round up 25 July 2010