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Immigration Information     Elderly woman assaulted in care home by work permit holding Senior CarerThe Care Quality Commission is being criticised for failing to take sufficient action after undercover filming showed an 80-year-old woman being slapped by a migrant care worker. EU Commissioner calls for end to UK work restrictions on Bulgarians and RomaniansEU Commissioner Lazslo Andor has called for a relaxation on work UK restrictions for Eastern Europeans. He wants Britain to act more than 18 months before the official deadline to drop the ban, restricting the access of Bulgarian and Romanian workers to the labour market of the UK… Students applying for UK visas from Pakistan face new English language testPakistani students seeking UK student visas have been singled out for a new language tests after border checks suggested that as many as 40 per cent of them had falsified their application forms. How much can Poles earn in the UK compared to back home?EU workers from countries such as Poland, Bulgaria and Romania have come to the UK in large numbers because they know they can easily find work because many British born do not want to take minimum wage jobs or jobs which require unsocial hours. Immigration adviser jailed for visa scamAn immigration advisor who masterminded a scam which allowed people to stay in the UK illegally has been jailed for seven years. Church of England Vicar and fixer jailed for London sham marriagesA vicar has been jailed for four-and-a-half years for his role in about 200 sham marriages that took place in an east London church, the BBC reports. Immigration Rule changes to Tier 2 working visasImmigration Rules have been laid in parliament confirming changes to Tier 2 of the points based system, the UK Border Agency has announced. Pret A Manger to create 550 new UK jobsPret A Manger, the highly successful sandwich and coffee chain, plans to create 550 extra jobs in the UK – including taking on more homeless people as apprentices…However Romanians and Bulgarians must have a yellow or blue card before they apply. 500,000 new UK job opportunities for young peopleThe UK Government is launching the Youth Contract, a new package of support worth nearly £1 billion that aims to offer young people 500,000 new opportunities over the next three years to gain work experience and find sustained work. UK Visa application fees increase 6 April 2012The UK Border Agency (UKBA) has received Parliamentary approval to increase a number overseas visa fees and UK-based visa or immigration application fees from Friday 6 April 2012. Share                                                 |