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Government announces scheme to bring 2,500 seasonal migrant workers to UK farms

On Thursday 6th September a plan to introduce a nationwide pilot scheme that would allow fruit and vegetable farmers to employ 2,500 seasonal migrant workers per year was announced by the Home Secretary and the...

British universities call for return of graduate work visa

There are over 450,000 international students studying in the UK. The UK is one of the most competitive countries in the world for higher education, after the much larger USA. However, while rival countries like...

Windrush: Three people have died before repatriation

The Windrush scandal continues as it was recently announced by the Jamaican foreign minister that at least three people wrongly deported to the Caribbean have died before being given the chance to return to the...

100 to sue government for forced child migration

After the second world war, 4,000 children were sent abroad to Australia and Zimbabwe as part of a government resettlement scheme. These forced child migrants, some as young as three years old, were vulnerable –...

The future of UK immigration

However you voted on 23rd June 2016, the date of the UK’s departure from the EU is drawing ever nearer. And, as it does, the need for the nation to agree on a new plan for immigration becomes ever more urgent....

UK politicians calling for end to "nonsensical" net migration targets

There is a growing call for the UK government to rethink its “nonsensical” targets for net migration, echoing similar recommendations from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). An appetite for reform The...

Home Secretary forced to make apology to Windrush migrants

Home Secretary Sajid Javid was forced into an embarrassing apology yesterday after it emerged that up to 164 members of the Windrush generation had been illegally detained or deported from the UK. Javid’s mea...

Tier 2 visas still being hit despite medical restriction

The demand for skilled workers is outstripping the number available with the latest figures revealing that the number of potential skilled foreign workers trying to obtain a visa under the Tier 2 system remains...

It's not just the USA that breaks up families in immigration rows

Theresa May recently called the US Government policy of separating immigrant children from their parents “deeply disturbing” and “wrong.” What the Prime Minister failed to mention, however, is that...

The Government's 'Settled Status' plan - what does it mean for EU migrants?

Uncertainty about the government’s post-referendum attitude towards EU migrants who have been long-term residents of the UK has been a persistent thread of Brexit discourse. Would there be deportations,...

'Sorry, getting a UK visa is just too humiliating and difficult,' say world-renowned music artists.

The founders and organisers of the annual WOMAD (World of Music Arts and Dance) festival in Wiltshire, have said that attracting performers is becoming increasingly challenging. Invited acts are,...

To EU or not to EU: A rise in immigration, but not from where you expect

The 2017 immigration statistics released with little fanfare by the Home Office last week make for interesting reading. The headline: net migration is higher now than at any time in the last five years. Despite...