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Immigration Information     Immigration will fall but due to UK economic downturn thinktank claimsIn a different slant on the continuing speculation over net migration figures, the Guardian reports that thinktank IPPR claims government is still unlikely to fulfil pledge of cutting net immigration to ‘tens of thousands’, but it will fall anyway partly due to the economic conditions. Immigration to UK will fall sharply this year says ipprImmigration to Britain will fall sharply this year, a think-tank said this week – but will fall short of the Prime Minister’s target, the Daily Mail reports. UK Home Office to close off route to citizenshipUnder the latest plans by the Conservative led coalition, the Home Office plan to abolish a rule that gives foreign workers the right to live permanently in Britain after working here for five years. Officials will also restrict the right of their family members to join them. Hardly a week goes by without an announcement of yet another ‘crackdown on immigration’. More often than not, it’s the same re-hashed crackdown! The ‘route to citizenship’ closure has been banded about for the last couple of years. In reality it will be difficult and unfair to deny residency rights to people already living in the UK for a number of years, especially those with ties such as children born in the UK. Weekly UK Immigration News Round up 09 January 2011Weekly UK Immigration News Round up 09 January 2011 UK Border Agency to continue crackdown on illegal workingTwo major sources of confusion for employers are overseas students and Romanian and Bulgarian EU citizens.Employers are often unaware that Bulgarians and Romanians do not have the same rights to work in the UK as other Eastern European EU members, although they can set up a business or work and study under a Yellow Card issued by the UK Border Agency. London Mayor’s new attack on UK Immigration CapDespite the crackdowns and rule changes, everybody knows that the vast majority of immigration comes from within the EU. The UK has little control of millions of Eastern Europeans wishing to work in the UK, as well as migrants exercising EEA rights of settlement. In reality the only way the Government can reduce net migration below their target ‘tens of thousands’ is to tear up treaties and effectively pull out of the European Union. Weekly UK Immigration News Round up 02 January 2011Weekly UK Immigration News Round up 01 January 2011 UK immigration fall unlikely in 2011 say leading think tankThe Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr), a leading think tank, predicts that there will not be a dramatic drop in immigration to the UK in 2010, and net migration for 2011 would be unlikely to fall much below 200,000 – the same annual level it has been at for much of the last decade. Minister to announce crackdown on student visa numbers todayThe number of foreign, non-EU students currently being let into the UK is “unsustainable”, Immigration Minister Damian Green will announce today the BBC has reported. College accused of selling English Language Certificates to Tier 4 studentsAn international Tier 4 college is under investigation following claims it was illegally selling English language certificates to help hundreds of immigrants settle in the UK, The Times reports. Share                                                 |