Tag Archives: Immigration

During the General Election David Cameron pledged to tackle net migration and bring it down from ‘hundreds of thousands per year to tens of thousands per year’. So far his Coalition Government has brought in an Immigration Cap, cancelled Tier 1 General and has tightened Tier 4 of the Points Based System (Student Visas) significantly. […]

The \’A8\’ countries are: Czech Republic Estonia Hungary Latvia Lithuania Poland Slovakia Slovenia The Worker Registration Scheme was introduced in 2004 following the accession of the ‘A8’ countries to the European Union and allowed the Government to monitor where nationals were coming into the UK labour market, the type of work they were doing and […]

Restricted CoS figures for April 2011 Total Certificate of Sponsorship available for allocation in the month – 4,200 Minimum point score for successful applications – 32 Total number of Certificates of Sponsorship granted – 1,028 Balance of Certificates of Sponsorship carried over to May 2011 – 3,172 Number of Certificates of Sponsorship available for allocation […]

We have provided details of the question and answer session below. Question There are plenty of talented migrants in the UK with high earnings and exceptional qualifications. Do you really wish to throw them out? (Question from Anuj Agrawal) Answer “No, we want people with high quality jobs and high quality skills coming to this […]

Mr Davies said that “The number of non-EU workers coming into the country via the points-based system has amounted to tens of thousands in the past couple of years. This is a, some pain, little gain policy. Further reductions will bring little gain for the government’s policy objective to bring net migration down to the […]

Last week Italy was given a warning by Germany, France, Russia and Switzerland over the country’s decision to grant more than 25,000 Schengen Visas to Tunisian economic migrants who have been fleeing the country on fishing boats in droves since the start of the year. The European Commission President, Jose Manuel Barroso, has also called […]

Lord Digby Jones said that “I can’t see why if I find a computer expert in Auckland, New Zealand or a video games expert from Vancouver, they cannot come to my country, build a career, bring their families and pay tax. They speak English. But what’s now being said is ‘No they can’t\’. But if […]

In response to Mr Clegg’s comments the Shadow Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, said that ‘The Tory-led Government\’s immigration policy is now in utter chaos. Ministers need to explain urgently what on earth their immigration policy now is and whether cabinet ministers are actually prepared to deliver it or not. We still don\’t know whether David […]

Professor Becker said that ‘The proposal is that governments should sell the right to immigrate. The government should set a price each year and anyone would be accepted, aside from obvious cases such as potential terrorists, criminals and people who are very sick and who would be immediately a big burden to the health system.’ […]

Speaking to the BBC earlier in the day Mr Cable said that “The reference to the tens of thousands of immigrants rather than hundreds of thousands is not part of the coalition agreement; it is Tory party policy only.” Questioned in Manchester later in the day Mr Cable went on to say that “I don\’t […]