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Posts Tagged 'coalition government'
The controversial Home Office pilot scheme that saw two vans driving around Hounslow, Barking & Dagenham, Ealing, Barnet, Brent and Redbridge last week carting billboards stating " Go Home or Face Arrest " has come to an end, having sparked outrage across communities and among politicians. The advertising campaign cost £10,000 and was designed to tempt illegal immigrants to leave the UK without facing arrest and deportation. The pilot scheme was described by the Home Office... Read more »
Posted: 29 July 2013 | Author: Gherson Immigration | Comments (0)
A hard-hitting film warning economic migrants of the dangers of coming to the UK without appropriate support in place was recently released by The Passage , a charity helping homeless people. The three-minute movie depicts true life stories of migrants, stating key messages those considering moving to the UK must heed to avoid the perils others have encountered. One perturbing illustration shows a young Polish man called Jacek who loses his job after a workplace injury... Read more »
Posted: 18 June 2013 | Author: Gherson Immigration | Comments (0)
Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper outlined Labour's new approach to immigration last Thursday in an attempt to seize the initiative from a Coalition fraying at the edges and struggling to reach a consensus on its own policy. Despite the Prime Minister stressing that the party would not "lurch to the right" in the wake of the Eastleigh by-election, the rhetoric from some ministers has seemingly been at odds with this statement. Home Secretary Theresa May has announced plans to... Read more »
Posted: 11 March 2013 | Author: Gherson Immigration | Comments (0)
In a dark period of credit downgrades and humiliating by-elections the drop in net migration looked like a glimmer of hope for the coalition. The pledge to bring net migration down to 'the tens of thousands' has filtered through from a Conservative Party manifesto to the forefront of immigration policy. After humiliating rises in 2010 the Office for National Statistics revealed that net migration had fallen by a third to 163,000. Immigration Minister Mark Harper stated that "our tough reforms... Read more »
Posted: 06 March 2013 | Author: Gherson Immigration | Comments (0)
Currently Romanian and Bulgarian nationals are entitled to two principal routes to work in the UK: the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme and the Sectors Based Scheme. The first allows for Bulgarian and Romanian nationals to undertake short-term seasonal agricultural work in the UK and the second allows Romanian and Bulgarian nationals to do low-skilled work in the food manufacturing process. They can, however, come in as self-employed persons, which doesn't technically require an official... Read more »
Posted: 01 March 2013 | Author: Gherson Immigration | Comments (0)
Home Secretary Theresa May has accused judges of making the UK more dangerous by ignoring rules aimed at deporting more foreign criminals. Last year, MPs approved new guidance for judges making clear a criminal's right to a family life had limits. The guidance made clear the right to a family life - set out in Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights - was only qualified. The change was designed to end a string of cases where it was used to justify granting foreign criminals... Read more »
Posted: 25 February 2013 | Author: Gherson Immigration | Comments (0)
Judicial review is a type of court proceeding in which a judge reviews the lawfulness of a decision or action made by a public body. In other words, judicial reviews are a challenge to the way in which a decision has been made, rather than the rights and wrongs of the conclusion reached. It is not really concerned with the conclusions of that process and whether those were 'right', as long as the right procedures have been followed and whether the body concerned acted properly and within its... Read more »
Posted: 11 February 2013 | Author: Gherson Immigration | Comments (0)
The Home Office yesterday announced urgent changes to the Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) rules, which took effect as of today, 31 January 2013 . The following changes are applicable to all Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) applications that have not yet been decided and apply to applicants who seek entry clearance or leave to remain in the UK as a Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) migrant for the first time. Changes to note are as follows: The introduction of a 'genuine entrepreneur test' which, it... Read more »
Posted: 31 January 2013 | Author: Gherson Immigration | Comments (0)
The mechanisms for creating UK immigration law and the nature of the laws themselves have changed immeasurably over the centuries. The changes have mostly reflected changes in British history, global development and public perceptions of immigration. Immigration control has been a power exercised by kings, queens, ministers and parliament. In recent times the progress towards a truly democratic immigration system has begun to stall. Too much focus has been placed on people’s perceptions... Read more »
Posted: 02 January 2013 | Author: Gherson Immigration | Comments (0)
Theresa May's 12 December speech follows many robust government statements on curbing immigration. However, it may presage a slight change of tack. Our concern has been that in reducing immigration, the new rules have often engaged the wrong target, causing undesirable collateral damage. There now appears to be recognition of this. The speech mentions specifically "measures we are taking to make us more discerning when it comes to stopping the wrong people from coming here and even more... Read more »
Posted: 19 December 2012 | Author: Gherson Immigration | Comments (0)
My abiding perception after listening to the Home Office on Thursday is that it is all about 'abuse'. Stamp out abuse and the migration figures will start to resemble the government's projected targets. When Tier 4 was introduced, I thought I knew what 'abuse' was: bogus colleges that fronted as educational establishments with the sole aim of sponsoring illegal workers without any intention on either side to undertake a course of study. These abusers were giving genuine colleges and students... Read more »
Posted: 10 December 2012 | Author: Gherson Immigration | Comments (0)
Yesterday, the Prime Minister gave a speech to the CBI in which he said that the country was in "the economic equivalent of war today... and we need to throw everything we've got at winning in this global race". He set out five ways in which he was going to change things to "get things done": 1) Cutting back on judicial reviews; 2) Reducing government consultations; 3) Streamlining European legislation; 4) Stopping the gold-plating of legislation at home; and 5) "quite... Read more »
Posted: 21 November 2012 | Author: Gherson Immigration | Comments (0)
It was announced by the UK Border Agency in July 2012 that following a 'successful pilot' carried out last year, a targeted interview system for students was being introduced, which would concentrate on high-risk applicants . If you are a student, you may be interviewed and asked a number of questions about your immigration and education history, study and post-study plans, and financial circumstances. The UKBA expects to interview up to 14,000 students in the next 12 months.... Read more »
Posted: 09 November 2012 | Author: Gherson Immigration | Comments (0)
As the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats approach the halfway point of their term in office, many of their pledges on immigration have been broken or forgotten. There has been little progress on the policies outlined in section 17 of the Coalition's programme for government. Ideas supposedly shared by the coalition partners have been quietly abandoned to be replaced with ideas announced in Conservative manifestos and party conferences. This is particularly worrying given the democratic... Read more »
Posted: 25 October 2012 | Author: Gherson Immigration | Comments (0)
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