Friday, 4 December 2009

A selection of recent media reports

FOREIGN STUDENT VISAS REVIEW URGED
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)

Calls for review of foreign students' visas
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 BANNED FROM ENTERING BRITAIN
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)

MIGRANTS USE 'JOKE' DEGREES TO LIVE IN BRITAIN
FOREIGN students are using qualifications in circus skills and theatre studies to claim the right to live in...
Daily Express (04-Dec-2009)

Government immigration adviser 'stunned' by ways migrants exploit degrees in circus skills to stay in Britain
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)

Foreign student visa review call by UK advisory body
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)

Embargoed until 00:01 4 December 2009 - Meeting the needs of the UK economy through selective high-skilled immigration
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 to boost immigration
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)

This sceptical isle
Britons are less keen on immigration than most in continental Europe or North...
Economist (03-Dec-2009)

Illegal restaurant staff arrested
Eight people were arrested when immigration chiefs carried out a series of raids at restaurants in...
BBC News Berkshire (03-Dec-2009)

The Swiss in the middle
Surprisingly, the Swiss could soon reopen their debate on joining the European...
Economist (03-Dec-2009)

The tiger under the table
The many ways in which Britain is living in the shadow of its...
Economist (03-Dec-2009)

Probe into college 'selling £250 English certificates' to help immigrants get citizenship
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)

Pair who trafficked 2,000 people to be extradited
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)

Bin Laden's son fails to get marriage visa
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)

Illegal workers found at Chinese restaurant
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)

Overseas students consider legal action against college
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)

Poverty in Britain is at a nine year high, says Joseph Rowntree Foundation report
The gap between rich and poor is at its highest for nearly 10 years, a report says...
Telegraph.co.uk (03-Dec-2009)

Pace of change sparking immigration fears
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 deported after Summertown restaurant raids
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)