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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...

Review of migrant employment in low-skilled work
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The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has launched a call for evidence in relation to a commission it has received from the Government. The commission asks the MAC to advise on the reasons behind the growth of...

 migration into low-skilled jobs, how this migration has evolved and the labour market, economic and social impacts of this migration on the UK and specifically on British workers. This commission will focus...

Landlords seek revisions to immigration proposals
By Richmond Chambers -

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...

Chief Inspector reports on juxtaposed controls
By Richmond Chambers -

The Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration has recently published a report following his inspection into the effectiveness of the juxtaposed controls. Juxtaposed controls were first established in 1994 to...

 speed up entry and exit procedures on the Channel Tunnel route. They were subsequently introduced on the Eurostar route in 2001 and at the ferry ports in northern France in 2003 to counter the significant...

Latest quarterly migration statistics
By Richmond Chambers -

The Office for National Statistics has published its Migration Statistics Quarterly Report for May 2013. statistics show that: There was a net flow of 153,000 migrants to the UK in the year...

 ending September 2012, which is significantly lower than the net flow of 242,000 in the year ending September 2011. There was a decrease in the number of citizens immigrating to the UK from New Commonwealth...

R on the application of Zhang v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWHC 891 (Admin) - case summary
By Richmond Chambers -

This case concerned a challenge by way of Judicial Review of the legality of paragraph 319C(h)(i) of the Immigration Rules. This requires those who are applying for leave...

 to remain as the partner of a relevant Points Based System (‘PBS’) Migrant to have, or have last been granted, leave to remain as the partner of a PBS Migrant.

Amnesty report on the overturning of asylum decisions
By Richmond Chambers -

Amnesty International and the Still Human Still Here coalition have published a report looking at why so many initial asylum decisions – 25% – are overturned on appeal in the UK. The research assessed...

 50 randomly picked cases from four countries that had high rates of overturning on appeal – Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, Syria and Iran. The researchers discovered that in 80% of these cases the asylum decision was...

Proposals to improve documentation at the border
By Richmond Chambers -

The Home Office has launched a new consultation to reduce the number of passengers arriving in the UK without proper travel documentation. Each year, thousands of undocumented passengers are stopped by...

 Border Force staff at UK airports or seaports. It is the responsibility of air and sea carriers to ensure that passengers have the correct documentation before they board. According to the Home Office, the cost to...

Changes to the shortage occupation list
By Richmond Chambers -

The number of specialist UK jobs that need to be filled by workers from outside the European Economic Area is falling, according to a recent report by the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC). Migration Advisory...

 Committee The MAC is a non-statutory, non-time-limited, non-departmental public body, sponsored by the UK Border Agency of the Home Office. Its purpose is to advise the government on migration issues. In...

Criticism of the Dublin Regulation
By Richmond Chambers -

On the 18th November 2013, the Dublin Regulation, which identifies which European State is responsible for deciding on an asylum application, celebrated its 10th anniversary. A comparative study on how...

 this Regulation is applied by States, entitled ‘The Dublin II Regulation: Lives on Hold’, has claimed that the Dublin system continues to fail both refugees and Member States. The report reveals the harsh...

Rules change for overstayers
By Richmond Chambers -

The UK Border Agency has advised of changes to the Immigration Rules that will affect people who have overstayed their leave to remain.

 The UK Border Agency has advised of changes to the Immigration Rules that will affect people who have overstayed their leave to remain.

Summer 2011 interns exempt from Tier 2 cooling off period
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Students who worked as interns in the UK last summer and want to return to a graduate job with the same company are now temporarily exempt from cooling off rules, according to the UK Border Agency. Cooling...

 off rules, introduced to Tier 2 (General) in February this year, mean those who have left Tier 2 need to wait a year from the end of their last application before they can apply again through that route. This is...
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