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Immigration Information     How will the new ‘minimum salary for residency’ proposals affect you?Following yesterday’s announcement by the UK Immigration Minister, Damian Green, that under new proposals migrants seeking permanent settlement, or Indefinite Leave to Remain, will be required to earn between £31,000 and £49,000 per annum, Immigration Matters has been inundated with questions from worried work permit holders such as Senior Care Workers, Nurses and Domestic Workers. Romanian workers offered UK jobs while 2.7 million claim benefitsBritish employers are offering thousands of jobs to Romanian workers as UK unemployment soars to a record high, the Daily Star claims. A recruitment agency in Bucharest is advertising 2,434 vacancies for British jobs according to the report. The news that employers are recruiting in Romania will surprise many as, despite being members of the European Union, Romanians cannot work in the UK as employees without permission. Senior Carers Workers win stage in appeal for right to settle in UKThe Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) has posted the following article on their appeal to win settlement rights for Senior Care Workers who came to the UK on Work Permits. Nurse job cuts putting NHS at ‘crisis’ point, says Royal College of NursingCare homes are facing a staffing crisis following a government clampdown on non-EU immigration and changes to Tier 2 work visa rules. Care industry employers looking for staff are increasingly turning to EU member workers from Eastern European countries such as Poland, Bulgaria and Romania. Shortage occupations list for Tier 2 gets shorterAs the official shortage occupations shrinks by a further 40,000 jobs, employers are increasingly recruiting European workers, for instance from Bulgaria and Romania, to fill vacancies for jobs not taken by the resident labour force. Immigration News weekly round up 09 October 2011Immigration News weekly round up 09 October 2011 – http://www.immigrationmatters.co.uk/category/news 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. Immigration News weekly round up 02 October 2011Immigration News weekly round up 02 October 2011 – http://www.immigrationmatters.co.uk/category/news European Commission order to let EU migrants claim benefits as soon as they enter the UK blastedA European Commission ruling that Britain is acting illegally and should allow all European citizens to claim benefits has been widely criticised. If the European Commission thinks Britain is acting illegally over benefits, it would be interesting to see what it has to say about the UK Border Agency’s decision to require Bulgarians and Romanians to take out Comprehensive Sickness Insurance cover when applying for yellow card registration as a working student. Are Bulgarian and Romanian migrants more likely to claim UK unemployment benefits?Owen Spottiswoode, writing for fullfacts.org, looks at the real facts behind a report in the The Daily Express, 29 September 2011, that Bulgarian and Romanian (A2) migrants were more likely to be claiming UK state benefits than A8 EU migrants and British Citizens Share                                                 |