Afraid Of Public Scrutiny, Government Scraps Vital Immigration Control Via Backdoor
Proposed new immigration rules contain devil in the detail – namely a very large reduction in the salary that skilled workers will need to earn in order to settle here (from just under £36,000 now to as low as £20,500). Astoundingly, details of this have been hidden from the public and press – the change […]
45,000 work permit cap needed in midst of rocketing redundancies
Summary 1. As unemployment rises, sensible policy measures to protect the well-being of UK people are vital. A cap on the central work permit route leading to settlement – set at 45,000 per year – is needed to safeguard UK workers and jobseekers from the very rapid increase in foreign competition that is likely to result from […]
Estimated Cost Of Housing And Payments For Failed Asylum Claimants
What is the estimated cost of supporting asylum seekers and how has it changed? 1. The overall cost of the asylum system is more than £1.3 billion. As part of this spending, the government is required by the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (henceforth ‘the 1999 Act’) to provide housing and payments to certain eligible […]
150 more trades being opened to global recruitment as unemployment rises
Introduction 1. The government have announced that the qualifications required for foreign workers to come to the UK will be reduced from degree level to “A” level when their new immigration system is introduced on 1 January 2021. 2. Furthermore, there will be no limit on the numbers that employers can recruit from overseas and the present […]
Only One In Every 42 Illegal Channel Arrivals Returned To Europe
Between 1 January 2019 and 1 October 2020, 237 migrants who crossed the English Channel were returned to mainland Europe. This is just over 2% of of just under 10,000 or so people who have been reported illegally crossing the Channel since the start of 2019 (see our Tracker) – only one in every 42 arrivals. This news comes […]
Trends In Asylum-related Support And Accommodation
The UK’s asylum system is being overwhelmed and abused (see our paper). One symptom of the beleaguered state of the system is that the number of people housed at taxpayer expense has tripled since 2012. In the year to September, the total number of people housed stood at 60,000 – the population of a small city – and even includes thousands of […]
Illegal Channel Crossings Are A Huge Injustice
Illegal Channel crossings have spiralled upwards this year. More people crossed in September 2020 than during all of 2019. It’s part of a larger European debacle which began in earnest with Angela Merkel’s foolhardy invitation in the summer of 2015 to irregular migrants to come to Germany. Nearly 1.9 million people have illegally crossed into the EU […]
Red Wall Constituents Oppose Government’s Immigration Proposals
Migration Watch UK have today published the results of an opinion poll focused on the Red Wall constituencies on which the government’s majority in the House of Commons depends. The poll was conducted in 70 selected constituencies ranging from North Wales across to the North East of England and was carried out by Deltapoll in […]
Visa Grants In The Era Of Covid
Initial suggestions are that the visa grants during the Covid period (e.g. Q2 2020) were 90%+ lower than in Q2 2019 (see below). However, it is important to note that the pandemic’s impact on immigration, particularly on work-related immigration, should not be used as the basis for justifying plans that were drawn up long before Covid-19 reared […]
Updated projection of illegal Channel arrivals for 2020
1. The number of people that look set to arrive in the UK via illegal Channel crossing may be on course to approach 10,000 in 2020 should they continue at the rate seen since January. 2. The previous daily record of 235 arrivals on 6 August was vastly surpassed on 2 September with 416 arrivals […]