Sham marriages have been for long a scourge and a means by which people traffickers and other criminals earn illicit fortunes for arranging them. Recent changes in the law have made it necessary to issue a new briefing paper on the subject, superseding the three previous papers, 8.13, 8.38 and 8.49. At the same time a revised version of briefing paper 8.9 – ‘Immigration and marriage – the legal position’ is being issued.

The Future of Student Visas
Executive summary Getting immigration under control must be the first and main priority of any new government. The problem now lies not merely in illegal

