FOREIGN STUDENT VISAS REVIEW URGED Calls for review of foreign students' visas OSAMA BIN LADEN'S SON BANNED FROM ENTERING BRITAIN MIGRANTS USE 'JOKE' DEGREES TO LIVE IN BRITAIN Government immigration adviser 'stunned' by ways migrants exploit degrees in circus skills to stay in Britain Foreign student visa review call by UK advisory body Embargoed until 00:01 4 December 2009 - Meeting the needs of the UK economy through selective high-skilled immigration Work permits to boost immigration This sceptical isle Illegal restaurant staff arrested The Swiss in the middle The tiger under the table Probe into college 'selling £250 English certificates' to help immigrants get citizenship Pair who trafficked 2,000 people to be extradited Bin Laden's son fails to get marriage visa Illegal workers found at Chinese restaurant Overseas students consider legal action against college Poverty in Britain is at a nine year high, says Joseph Rowntree Foundation report Pace of change sparking immigration fears Two deported after Summertown restaurant raidsA selection of recent media reports
The Government's chief immigration adviser has called for a review of "lower tier" colleges because of fears that too many foreign students are being given visas at the end of their degree...
Daily Star (04-Dec-2009)
The Government's chief immigration adviser has called for a review of "lower tier" colleges because of fears that too many foreign students are being given visas at the end of their degree...
Yahoo Uk And Ireland News (04-Dec-2009)
OSAMA bin Laden s son was last night barred from entering Britain to marry his English fiancée. Saudi national Omar bin Laden, 28, claimed preventing him from marrying five-times-divorced gran Jane Felix-Brown, 54, breached his human...
Daily Star (04-Dec-2009)
FOREIGN students are using qualifications in circus skills and theatre studies to claim the right to live in...
Daily Express (04-Dec-2009)
Tens of thousands of immigrants are gaining the right to work in the UK by obtaining degrees from 600 colleges which are not 'proper' universities. Professor David Metcalf, chairman of the Migration Advisory Committee, said he was 'stunned' to discover how many colleges were accredited to hand out bachelor..
Daily Mail (04-Dec-2009)
Rules allowing non-European students to stay in the UK after attending further education colleges should be reviewed, a government advisory panel...
BBC News (04-Dec-2009)
The first review by the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) of the highly skilled migration routes (Tier 1) of the Governments Points Based System for managed migration recommends that the routes should be...
News Distribution Services (04-Dec-2009)
Work permits for refugees could be issued in Scotland under a new plan to make it easier for successful asylum seekers to settle north of the...
BBC News Berkshire (03-Dec-2009)
Britons are less keen on immigration than most in continental Europe or North...
Economist (03-Dec-2009)
Eight people were arrested when immigration chiefs carried out a series of raids at restaurants in...
BBC News Berkshire (03-Dec-2009)
Surprisingly, the Swiss could soon reopen their debate on joining the European...
Economist (03-Dec-2009)
The many ways in which Britain is living in the shadow of its...
Economist (03-Dec-2009)
A college is at the centre of a cheat probe after charging immigrants £250 for English certificates which help them acquire British citizenship. An investigation is under way at the UK Citizenship Centre, in Blackburn, Lancashire, after it emerged certificates were awarded to those who could not speak...
Daily Mail (03-Dec-2009)
Two masterminds of a major people-smuggling ring were today being extradited from Britain. Jambaz Ahmadzai, from Afghanistan, and Hajhar Farhan, from Iran, are accused of helping to smuggle 2,000 people into the UK and...
Evening Standard (03-Dec-2009)
The son of al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden has been banned from coming to Britain to marry his 54-year-old English...
Evening Standard (03-Dec-2009)
OFFICERS targeting illegal working at a restaurant in Bideford found that every member of staff on duty was an immigration offender. UK Border Agency officers went to the Honeymoon restaurant in Bridgeland Street at about...
This is Plymouth (03-Dec-2009)
It is a trail that leads from meetings with immigration agents in rented hotel rooms across the Indian sub-continent to a college campus on a business park on the eastern outskirts of...
Herald Scotland (03-Dec-2009)
The gap between rich and poor is at its highest for nearly 10 years, a report says...
Telegraph.co.uk (03-Dec-2009)
THE WAY and speed in which immigration is changing Evesham is concerning residents not the immigrants themselves a study has found. Both immigrants and those born and bred in the Vale or the UK respect each other, share common values and there is little evidence of racism or prejudice according to the.
The Evesham Observer (03-Dec-2009)
TWO Brazilian men arrested last week after immigration officers raided two North Oxford restaurants have been removed from the UK. UK Border Agency officers targeted Mamma Mia Pizzeria and Portabello Restaurant, in South Parade, Summertown, in an operation to target illegal workers last...
Oxford Mail (02-Dec-2009)
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