Thursday, 16 June 2011


A selection of recent media reports

UK Border Agency warns of visa scams URL: http://nds.coi.gov.uk Source: COI The UK Border Agency is warning people not to be taken in by scammers demanding cash i Society of Procurement Officers (15-Jun-2011)

18 months for £80,000 benefits cheat An illegal immigrant who falsely claimed more than £80,000 in benefits has been jailed for 18 months. London Evening Standard (15-Jun-2011)

Sri Lankan asylum seekers to be deported from UK despite safety fears About 40 Sri Lankan asylum seekers, including some with links to the Tamil Tigers, are expected to be deported back into the troubled country from Britain. Irish Sun (15-Jun-2011)

EU ministers back centralisation of population databases A single agency will be in charge of three EU population-tracking databases under plans approv Out - Law.com (14-Jun-2011)

Bangladeshi men await deportation after Helston raid Four men from Bangladesh are awaiting deportation following a raid at a property in Cornwall. BBC News England (14-Jun-2011)

Unnecessary tribunals wasting taxpayers' money, watchdog warns Government agencies must aim to be right first time to avoid expense of appeal hearings, s Guardian.co.uk (14-Jun-2011)

Emigration to Britain up 25% to almost 14,000, data reveals THE NUMBER of Irish people moving to live in Britain increased by 25 per cent to 13,920 last year. It was the biggest increase in emigration in more than 10 years, new figures indicate. Irish Times (14-Jun-2011)

Foleshill illegal immigrant jailed for £8k benefits fraud - but can stay in UK AN ILLEGAL immigrant who used false documents to gain work and still pocketed thousands Coventry Telegraph (13-Jun-2011)

Changes to the Immigration Rules: Written ministerial statement by Damian Green Summary: This is a written ministerial statement by Immigration Minister info4local.gov.uk (13-Jun-2011)

UK Immigration: Student Visas To Be Reduced By over 250,000 But Would Cost The UK £2.5 Billion The number of student visas would be reduced by 260,000 by 2015 or by 52,00 eGov Monitor (13-Jun-2011)

One in a hundred Slovakians has come to live in Britain The top five nations fuelling the rise in Britain's immigration are all from Eastern Europe, it emerged toda Mail Online (13-Jun-2011)

France to deport more Romanians after discovering they are behind 80% of street crime The vast majority of street robberies in Paris are now carried out by the Mail Online (13-Jun-2011)

Foreign students cuts 'less deep' Home Secretary Theresa May's plans to cut the number of foreign students coming to Britain will only have half the effect previou Guardian.co.uk (13-Jun-2011)

Student migration curbs could cost UK £2.4bn Plans to cut the number of foreign students arriving in the UK could cost £2.4bn more than they save, according to o BBC (13-Jun-2011)

Foreign students cuts 'less deep' Home Secretary Theresa May's plans to cut the number of foreign students coming to Britain will only have half the effect previou Press Association (13-Jun-2011)

Foreign students cuts 'less deep' Home Secretary Theresa May's plans to cut the number of foreign students coming to Britain will only have half the effect previou London Evening Standard (13-Jun-2011)

Student visas to be cut by a quarter of a million by 2015 The number of student visas issued over the next five years is to be cut by 260,000, according to the Home Off Times Higher Education (13-Jun-2011)

'Immigrant crisis in the making for UK' MPs are warning of a crisis as tens of thousands of illegal immigrants from Afghanistan and the Middle East are smuggled into E London Evening Standard (13-Jun-2011)

Police 'covered up' violent campaign to turn London area 'Islamic' Victims say that officers in the borough of Tower Hamlets have ignored or downplayed outbreaks of hate crime, and suppressed evidence implicating Muslims in them, because they fear being accused of racism. The Daily Telegraph (13-Jun-2011)

High cost of compensation culture and 'human rights' A race equality campaigner has cost taxpayers more than £1 million by bringing a string of discrimination claims – several of them against anti-racism groups. The Daily Telegraph (13-Jun-2011)