UK Border Agency ‘family migration’ consultation one week left to have your say
The 12 week UK government public consultation on reforms to family migration closes Thursday 6 October 2011.
Labour government got it right on EU immigration and Free Movement of Labour says Jonathan Portes
Following this week’s admission by party leader Ed Miliband that the Labour Government’s ‘open-door’ immigration policy drove down wages and living standards in Britain, Jonathan Portes, Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, puts forward an alternative view.
EctHR Judgment Bah v UK
Bah v UK (App. no 56328/07) [2011] ECHR 1448
Husenatu Bah, is a Sierra Leonean national who was granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK in 2005 following an application for asylum in 2000. Her young son was granted leave to enter and remain in the UK on the basis that there was to be no recourse to public funds.
HIGHLY TRUSTED PRIVATE COLLEGE STUDENTS DO NOT HAVE THE SAME RIGHT TO WORK AS GOVERNMENT SPONSORED INSTITUTIONS
Students assume that if they are registered with a ‘Highly Trusted’ institution, they will be treated equally. NOT TRUE. Tier 4 students are also utterly confused by further set of rule changes. In the last few weeks I have received an increasing number of calls and emails from panic stricken students reporting that their college had ‘closed down’…
Labour admit EU immigration mistakes
Migrants from the Bulgaria and Romania were, the report also said, more likely to have four or more children than those coming to Britain from elsewhere, placing a significant strain on the education system.
Meeting of the Migration Advisory Committee with representatives of Romanian professional associations in the UK
Romanian Embassy in London – On September 16th 2011, in the presence of HE Dr Ion Jinga, Ambassador of Romania in London, took place a meeting of the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) with representatives of several Romanian professional associations. It was for the first time that the Migration Advisory Committee was participating in a meeting of such nature, organized by an embassy.
Immigration News weekly round up 25 September 2011
Immigration News weekly round up 25 September 2011
Fake visa factory raided
Police raid Bangladesh plant printing fake UK entry clearance documents.
Thousands of illegal immigrants may have entered Britain using fake papers printed in a “visa factory”.
Bulgaria and Romania Schengen visa bid blocked by Netherlands and Finland
The European Union this week gave its two newest members, Romania and Bulgaria, a ’slap in the face’ denying the right to join the Schengen bloc’s passport-free travel zone. Romania and Bulgaria, which joined the European Union in 2007 and are also blocked from working without permission in many EU states including the UK (where they are also required to take out Comprehensive Sickness Insurance when applying for student yellow cards), say they have met the technical standards for joining the Schengen zone but Finland and the Netherlands…
Students in the UK on temporary Tier 4 visas are not ‘migrants’
According to a recent report on Student Visas by a Home Affairs Select Committee, ‘The international student market, estimated to be worth £40 billion to the UK economy is a significant growth market and the UK is the second most popular destination in the world for international students.’ So, in these much-lamented days of recession and austerity, we have an industry bringing a whopping £40 billion into the UK economy. It is, by any account a fantastic commercial success story – and yet the current Government (in line with the previous) seems hell-bent on bringing this industry to its knees, by employing legislation that the Committee report says will have ‘a calamitous impact’ on business.
Within the industry itself, the situation is widely understood to
