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Fall in immigration of non-EU citizens
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The latest Government figures reveal that there was a fall in the numbers of non-EU citizens immigrating to the UK in the year to September 2013 – down to 244,000 from 269,000 in the preceding...

 year. According to the Office for National Statistics, this is down to a fall in the number of people from New Commonwealth countries coming to the UK to study. The statistics reveal that over the same period: The net flow...

Immigrants should pay National Insurance upfront, says think tank
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Migrants should be required to pay a £2,000 ‘National Insurance Advance’ upon first entering the UK, a new think tank report has proposed.Contact Us

 Migrants should be required to pay a £2,000 ‘National Insurance Advance’ upon first entering the UK, a new think tank report has proposed.Contact Us

Immigration Bill laid in Parliament
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The Home Office has introduced new legislation that will bring about significant changes to the UK immigration system. According to the Home Office, the Immigration Bill will stop migrants using public...

 services where they are not entitled to do so, reduce the pull factors which encourage people to come to the UK and make it easier to remove people who should not be here. The Bill includes provisions that will: cut...

Home Office guidance relating to requests for a removal decision
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The Home Office has recently issued guidance to its caseworkers relating to requests for a removal decision to be made.

 The Home Office has recently issued guidance to its caseworkers relating to requests for a removal decision to be made.

Government's migrant charging proposals could damage the NHS
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The government’s proposals for an extended charging system for migrants and short term visitors attempting to access healthcare in UK are impractical, inefficient, and uneconomic and could cause unintended...

 damage to NHS services, according to the BMA. Responding to the government’s recent consultations on migrant and short term visitor access to the NHS, the BMA has outlined serious concerns about these...

Migration statistics not fit for purpose
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Migration statistics that are produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the Home Office are nothing more than a “blunt instrument” when it comes to measuring, managing and understanding migration...

 to and from the UK. This is the opinion expressed by the Commons Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) in a recently published report, in which PASC calls for new sources of statistics to provide...

Landlords seek revisions to immigration proposals
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Responding to a government consultation on tackling illegal immigration via rented homes, the British Property Federation (BPF) has warned that the proposals, which could see landlords prosecuted for...

 failing to recognise complex immigration documents, were disproportionate in their current form, and could prove ineffective in efforts to identify illegal immigrants. Home Office proposals will force landlords to...

Calls for forward-looking policies on migration
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The European Commission has called for a more coherent EU response to the challenges and opportunities of migration after analysing the 2012 and early 2013 developments in the areas of immigration and asylum. This...

 response includes reinforcing well-managed legal immigration and integration policies, and working on a more modern and efficient management of traveller flows at its external borders. It also requires...

New phase of tuberculosis screening launched
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The second phase of the Home Office’s life-saving pre-entry tuberculosis (TB) screening programme has been introduced as part of the new immigration rules laid on Monday 10th June. The programme means that migrants...

 who want to enter the UK for more than six months, from 67 countries with a high incidence of TB, have to be screened before they are granted a visa for the UK. The first phase of pre-entry screening...

Secretary of State for the Home Department v Ahmadi [2013] EWCA Civ 512 - case summary
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The Court of Appeal heard the Secretary of State’s appeal against the determination of the Upper Tribunal in Ahmadi (s47 decision: validity; Sapkota) [2012] UKUT 147 (IAC). The Upper Tribunal erred in its construction...

 of section 47 of the 2006 Act in the light of the Immigration (Continuation of Leave) (Notices) Regulations 2006 (the ‘2006 Regulations’), If the 2006 Regulations were relevant, then the Upper...

Net migration in 2013
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Net migration will fall to around 140,000 this year, according to new statistical analysis from the think tank IPPR. This follows a fall of over 25% in the year to March 2012, but analysis suggests that net migration...

 will begin to rise again in 2014, although final figures for that year will not be available until after the 2015 General Election. According to the IPPR, official figures released in 2013 are likely...

Net migration falls significantly
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Latest provisional figures for the year ending March 2012 show that net migration has fallen significantly to 183,000 from 242,000 the previous year, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has announced. Inward...

 migration to the UK stood at 536,000 people in the year ending March 2012, which is lower than the 578,000 who immigrated the previous year and the lowest immigration figure since 2004. Around 353,000...
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