MW221 : Revised List of occupations that qualify under Tier 2 of the Points Based System | Migration Watch UK
1. PBS Tier 2 (General) is designed for people coming to the UK with a skilled job offer to fill a gap in the workforce that cannot be filled by a settled worker. The job must be on the Shortage Occupation list (which tests for national shortages) or the employer must have carried out a Resident […]
Tightening Immigration Benefits All Legitimate Students
By Matthew PollardExecutive Director, Migration Watch UKPolitics, London, 25 February, 2011 Universities should show more interest in the UK graduates they’re sending to the dole queue, rather than foreign applicants. The government will soon announce measures to reform the student immigration system. Meanwhile, their consultation exercise has been greeted with howls of outrage from the […]
House Of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee
Oral Evidence from Migration Watch UK : Students See Briefing Paper No 2.11 for the full text.
Migration Watch UK Comment on Today’s Immigration Statistics | Migration Watch UK
Sir Andrew Green said “These figures are Labour’s legacy to Britain – 3.2 million immigrants, including a quarter of a million in their last year alone. Over half a million students in one year with no interviews before arrival and no checks on departure and a Points Based System that has increased immigration, not reduced it. This […]
MW219 : Mass Immigration – Labour’s enduring legacy to Britain. No text version. | Migration Watch UK
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Immigration Under Labour – Chaos or Conspiracy? | Migration Watch UK
Figures due out on Thursday will, for the first time, officially confirm that net foreign immigration under Labour exceeded three million. This is the context for a detailed indictment of the Labour Government’s record on immigration published today in Briefing Paper No 11.24. It forensically examines one of the most significant and far reaching changes ever […]
Secret Cable plan could double flow of economic migrants | Migration Watch UK
Just as the Prime Minister is promising that “this year the government is determined to help deliver many thousands of new jobs”, Vince Cable is secretly negotiating a deal that will admit tens of thousands of Indian workers to Britain. The deal is part of a Free Trade Agreement being negotiated between the EU and […]
House of Commons Home Affairs Committee 8 February, 2011
Examination of Witnesses Witnesses: Sir Andrew Green KCMG, Chairman, MigrationWatch UK, and Mr Alper Mehmet, Member, Advisory Council, MigrationWatch UK, gave evidence. Q125 Chair: Sir Andrew, Mr Mehmet, you are old stagers at this Committee, so you know the format, so I will not go through it again, and you have been sitting in at the evidence. Thank […]
Bogus Student Clampdown ‘Economically and Morally Justified’ | Migration Watch UK
The Government’s planned clampdown on the long running issue of bogus students is both economically justified and entirely fair, says a new report from think-tank Migrationwatch, issued as the government’s consultation period ends on 31 January. The proposals are designed primarily to stop the widespread abuse by people coming to Britain under the pretence of study and […]
Impact of the government’s proposals for foreign students
Summary 1. These measures are unlikely to have much impact on universities but there could well be a reduction of about 27,000 per year in the number of foreign students at below degree level in private colleges. That is equivalent to 10% of last year’s total of 270,000 foreign students. The annual loss of fee […]