immigration inflow in the United Kingdom has reduced to its 20 years record low levels as depicted in a recent report. Over 40,000 less immigrants arrived in UK this year compared to the previous year. The major reason for reduction in the immigrants entering the country is significant reduction in the number of people on [...]
United Kingdom Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, John Vine, has alleged in his report that UK Border Agency (UKBA) provided the information regarding the backlog of the refugee claimant cases to the Member Parliaments which was contrary to the facts. UKBA’s official has submitted apologies and accepted the full responsibility of the errors in [...]
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United Kingdom (UK) is losing the India’s top talent and global leaders of future to the other countries like Canada and United States due to strict immigration regulations for foreign students. The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson who is in India on a five day visit strongly criticized UK immigration policies which are having damaging [...]
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United Kingdom and Australia are trying to lead the race to attract super rich foreign nationals in a bid to get foreign investment by offering permanent residency with minimum or no restrictions on factors such as age, English language skills or even the time required to be spend in the country. United Kingdom offers residency [...]
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The London Metropolitan University has been temporarily banned by the immigration office in UK to recruit overseas students on grounds of not fully complying with the rules specified by the agency requiring the universities and colleges to report any foreign student who failed to start the study programme. The basis of the ban, as told [...]
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The British Prime Minister David Cameron has been urged by a group of United Kingdom’s leading businessmen to consider excluding foreign students, particularly Pakistani students, from the provisions of the UK’s new immigrations reforms. Such requests, on part of the businessmen community, came after a considerable drop in student applications from foreign countries was seen. [...]
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It is rightly said that “Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century” maintains Perelman. Today the world has become a global village where boundaries are crossed with the help of papers called visas. One who wants to study should get a visa and go through an immigration process. [...]
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United Kingdom Border Agency (UKBA) Chief Inspector John Vine fears another immigration backlog as UKBA was failing to formulate a proper strategy to keep an eye on more than 150,000 foreign immigrants believed to be staying in the UK even after the expiry of their visa permit terms. The report by John Vine has analyzed [...]
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United Kingdom Border Agency has announced that the processing times for UK settlement applications submitted in Pakistan are increased due to increased number of applications received. The global customer service standard for deciding the majority of the settlement applications is 12 weeks and all the applications are decided within 24 weeks. Although the applicants of [...]
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United Kingdom Border Agency (UKBA) and Metropolitan Police busted 36 males of Indian origin for working illegally in the Southall, London area on June 26, 2012. These people would gather on the King Street to find labour work. The officials arrested thirty six illegal migrants aged between 23 and 56 after carrying out immigration checks [...]
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