First annual limit on non-EU workers came into force on 6 April 2011 to reduce immigration into the UK 07 April 2011 The first major change to reduce immigration into the UK by the coalition Government came into force on 6 April 2011, as the government’s new annual limit on migration comes into force. […]
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e-Borders catches 2,800 criminals but Theresa May wants MORE…. 07 April 2011 The UK Border Agency today hailed their new e-Borders surveillance system as a success. They cliam that suspects linked to hundreds of crimes have been captured after the UK Border Agency’s e-Borders monitoring system successfully targeted wanted criminals trying to cross the […]
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Asylum Applications in Europe Falling
Asylum applications and recognition rates falling 358,800 people applied for asylum during 2010 in 44 industrialised countries, according to a UNHCR report released on 28th March. This number is the fourth lowest of the last decade and almost half (42 per cent) of the 620,000 applications filed in 2001. The drop regards the southern part […]
Sham wedding party sentenced in Sheffield 23 March 2011 A entire wedding party arrested in Sheffield city centre in September 2010 have been jailed. Immigration officers acting on intelligence discovered that the entire wedding party was an organised sham marriage designed to assist Sajid Ali, from Pakistan, to obtain immigration in the UK. The […]
The UKBA’s Proposed Restrictions on Tier 4 visas: implications for University recruitment of overseas students Author: Professor Edward Acton Professor Edward Acton analyses the Government’s proposals to class international students as migrants with the resulting restriction on student visas, and shows the devastating effect this will have on the recruitment of international students and so […]
