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The British government announced tough new immigration rules Monday that it says will reduce the number of people able to move to the U.K. each year by hundreds of thousands. Home Secretary James ...
The government argued that the existing visa options are sufficient for international students in Scotland, and noted that, "Applying different immigration rules to different parts of the UK would complicate the immigration system, harming its integrity, and cause difficulties for employers with a presence in more than one part of the UK." [39]
Concern over immigration was a leading factor in Britain's decision to vote to leave the European Union in 2016, but successive governments have failed to reduce both legal and illegal migration.
On 13 June 2011, new Immigration Rules were laid before Parliament that came into force on 4 July 2011 introducing a new streamlined application procedure (waiving the normal requirements to provide documentary evidence of maintenance and qualifications at the time of application) for some non-visa nationals from 'low-risk countries' who wish ...
The Immigration Act 1971, section 1, provides for "rules laid down by the Secretary of State as to the practice to be followed in the administration of this Act". [9] By August 2018, the Immigration Rules stood at almost 375,000 words, often so precise and detailed that the services of a lawyer are typically required to navigate them.
The government has been forced to relax immigration rules for construction workers after it was warned that new Brexit red tape is causing labour shortages on building sites.. Bricklayers, roofers ...
Migration Watch UK, is a think-tank opposed to a large scale of immigration. [15] Migration Watch UK has criticised the Home Office figures for not including the UK-born dependent children of illegal migrants. They suggested in 2007 that the Home Office had underestimated the numbers of illegal migrants by between 15,000 and 85,000.
Immigration detention in the United Kingdom is the practice of indefinite detention of both foreign national asylum seekers/refugees and immigrants in purpose-built detention centres for the purpose of immigration control. [1] Unlike some other countries, UK provisions to detain are not outlined in a codified constitution.