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Immigration Information     UK Border Agency staff on strike on 30 JuneThe Public and Commercial Services union is currently holding a 24-hour strike which will end this evening. The end times will vary as each port has different shift patterns, the UK Border Agency has announced. Universities will have to compete against private providers for studentsUniversities in England will have to compete against each other and private providers for a quarter of their student places, the BBC reports. UK Border Agency announce rules to extend of stay for skilled workers in ‘closed’ work schemesThe UK Border Agency is setting up new arrangements for skilled workers who came here under work routes, such as Work Permits, or schemes that have now closed, in order to extend their stay in the UK to a total of 5 years. YES, TIER 4 VISA RULE CHANGES ON 4 JULY 2011 WILL STOP WORK & DEPENDANTS FOR STUDENTS AT PRIVATE COLLEGESThe UK Border Agency is pushing ahead with further Immigration Rule changes coming into effect on 4 July 2011, which will have serious consequences for Tier 4 students studying at private colleges. Immigration News Weekly Round up 26 June 2011Immigration News Weekly Round up 26 June 2011 UK Border Agency leads massive countrywide anti-trafficking raidsNine people have been arrested following a UK Border Agency-led operation targeting a crime gang suspected of trafficking sex workers around Britain, the agency announced this week. In one of the biggest operations of its kind ever undertaken in the UK, around 150 officers from the UK Border Agency and eight different police forces carried out simultaneous raids on 13 different addresses around the South and East of England. Eight arrested in Bangladesh visa forgery factory raidEight people were arrested after a fake visa discovered by a UK Border Agency officer in the capital Dhaka was traced back to the forgers’ base in the city of Sylhet in north east Bangladesh. Immigration cap discourages academics to work in UKUnder these rules academics from the United States, India, China or Australia will think twice before applying for a job in Britain. At the start of April the coalition government introduced an immigration cap that makes it incredibly difficult for academics from outside the EU to secure the right to work in Britain. University of Wales criticised in reportThe University of Wales should be wound down and closed if other plans for its future fail, a report concluded. Visa scam warningThe UK Border Agency has issued a warning to potential migrants to guard against being duped by scammers demanding cash in return for dealing with immigration cases. Share                                                 |