Tuesday, 2 February 2010

A selection of recent media reports

IT'S TIME TO RECONSIDER OUR MEMBERSHIP OF EU
BRITAIN has been subjected to huge waves of immigration from many parts of the globe in recent years. Expansion of the European Union in 2004 saw more than a million migrants arrive, principally from...
Daily Express (02-Feb-2010)

Proportionality of removal
Court of Appeal Published February 2, 2010 JA (Ivory Coast) v Secretary of State for the Home Department ES (Tanzania) v Same It was necessary to weigh in the balance how far the proportionality of removal of an individual from the jurisdiction was affected by the history of any compassionate grant and...
Times Online (02-Feb-2010)

NOW MOLDOVANS WILL WIN THE RIGHT TO LIVE IN BRITAIN
A NEW wave of immigration from eastern Europe edged closer last night after Romania promised to fast-track a back-door route into...
Daily Express (02-Feb-2010)

MPS REVOLT OVER TURKEY JOINING EU
ANGRY MPs will tomorrow revolt against a drive by ministers to force Britain into welcoming Turkey into the European...
Daily Express (02-Feb-2010)

Immigration debate
of the debate on population and immigration from 9.30am on 2 February...
BBC News Gloucestershire (01-Feb-2010)

Sham marriage adverts behind surge in visa applications from India
A surge in advertisements for sham marriages is behind the huge increase in Indian student visa applications to the United Kingdom, officials and immigration experts said on Monday. 
Daily Telegraph (01-Feb-2010)

UK Student Tier 4 visa ban an applicants from North India, Nepal and Bangladesh
UK immigration has announced a ban on applications from students in North India, Bangladesh and Nepal. From 1 February 2010 no new applications will be accepted under the Tier 4 student visa of the points at the following visa application centres: North India - New Delhi, Jalandhar and Chandigarh...
UK Immigration (01-Feb-2010)

HIV asylum seeker 'used fake documents'
An HIV-positive South African woman allegedly confessed to using fake documents to get work at care homes in NI, the High Court has been...
BBC News Northamptonshire (01-Feb-2010)

Students who break visa rules can stay in UK
Home Office efforts to prevent foreign students from extending their visas have been overturned by the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT) even when the immigrants have broken the rules by setting up businesses on the side or working for more hours than they are...
Silobreaker (01-Feb-2010)

£100k win for falsely imprisoned refugee
A REFUGEE who was falsely imprisoned with her children at Oakington immigration removal centre has won a £100,000 payout. Bolivian Carmen Quiroga spent 42 days at the detention facility with her son and three daughters, aged between three and 11, in what her solicitor described as appalling...
Cambridge News 2 (01-Feb-2010)

BROWN IS THE WORST PRIME MINISTER IN BRITAIN'S HISTORY
GORDON Brown s premiership will go down as one of the darkest episodes in modern British...
Daily Express (01-Feb-2010)