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Home Office Proposals on Settlement 9 June, 2011

In response to the proposals published by the Home Office in their consultation on Employment-Related Settlement, Tier 5 and Overseas Domestic Workers, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UK commented:

"This is excellent news. There will now be a real incentive for employers to train British workers rather than continue to take skilled foreign workers 'off the shelf' so as to avoid training costs."

A selection of recent media reports

Dognapper jailed for two years AN immigrant was jailed for two years yesterday for kidnapping a bank director’s dog when she could not arrange him a loan. Polish Ga Mirror.co.uk (11-Jun-2011)

ROMANIANS IN UK SEND HOME £500K EVERY DAY ROMANIAN workers in Britain send home £500,000 every day. Daily Star (11-Jun-2011)

CHEAPENING OF CITIZENSHIP IN 2009 more than 200,000 foreigners were given British citizenship. Despite the last government’s claims to be running a f Express.co.uk (11-Jun-2011)

UK’S 204,000 PASSPORTS GIVEAWAY BRITAIN handed out passports at the “astonishing” rate of almost two every five minutes to make it the most open country in Europ Express.co.uk (11-Jun-2011)

SERIAL RAPIST JAILED INDEFINITELY A serial rapist who subjected three strangers to terrifying assaults in a 10-week period has been jailed indefinitely for p Sunday Express (10-Jun-2011)

Blair is a fool – Blue Labour has enormous attraction for both Labour and Conservative voters It was interesting to note that in his Times interview yesterday T Telegraph Blogs (10-Jun-2011)

Firms to be paid £14,000-a-head to hire jobless A million jobless people are to be forced into a welfare-to-work scheme run by private firms to ensure British jobs are This is Money (10-Jun-2011)

French Muslim couple use British taxpayer cash to fight burkha ban back home British taxpayers are paying for a French Muslim couple to challenge their count Mail Online (10-Jun-2011)

Bulgaria and Romania excluded from 'borderless' EU travel zone The European Union decided yesterday to keep Bulgaria and Romania out of its borderless travel zone for now, even though the two EU nations have met the required technical standards. Independent.ie (10-Jun-2011)

Gardaà to investigate 400 ‘sham’ marriages GARDAÍ are investigating 400 marriages by Latvian citizens in Ireland to non-EU spouses, believing many of them to be a sham. Irish Examiner.com (10-Jun-2011)

FRENCH MUSLIMS USE OUR CASH TO FIGHT BURKHA BAN A FRENCH Muslim couple sparked fury yesterday by using a free legal service paid for by British taxpayers to cha Scottish Daily Express (10-Jun-2011)

HUMAN RIGHTS MADNESS THE Immigration Advisory Service relies on taxpayers for almost all of its funding. Express.co.uk (10-Jun-2011)

33 illegal workers arrested in raid A total of 33 illegal workers have been arrested in Leicester during a large-scale raid on textile businesses. More than 100 Sleaford Standard (10-Jun-2011)

Foreign cleaners and cooks face crackdown Foreign cooks and cleaners will be banned from working in homes as part of a clamp-down on immigration. Damian Green, t The Independent (10-Jun-2011)

Romanian migrants send home £500,000 each day from the UK Romanians living in Britain send home nearly £500,000 every day, official figures revealed last Mail Online (09-Jun-2011)

Tens of thousands of migrants will be barred from settling in the UK under Government plans to be 'more selective' Tens of thousands of migrants will asked to leave Mail Online (09-Jun-2011)

Schengen zone: Dutch delay new EU border opening The Netherlands plans to delay until next year any decision on whether to let Bulgaria and Romania join Europe's p BBC News; Isle of Man (09-Jun-2011)

Migration settlement rights to be cut says Home Office Proposals to cut the number of migrants allowed to settle permanently in the UK have been published by the Hom BBC News; Isle of Man (09-Jun-2011)

UK population will be biggest in EU Britain's supposed open door policy to foreigners will result in the population rising to 79 million people by 2060 and the UK beco Daily Finance UK (09-Jun-2011)

UK couple challenge French veil ban in court A French Muslim husband and wife living in Britain are to challenge France's ban on full-face coverings at the European Yahoo! News UK & Ireland (09-Jun-2011)