Blogs

This is the title of an operationlaunched by the Metropolitan Police in September 2012 which has recently attracteda certain amount of media attention. Theobject of it is to use deportation as a sanction against foreign unconvictedcriminals. Deporting convicted criminalsis not usually a problem, subject to the operation of Article 8

Paragraph 281 of theImmigration Rules sets out the requirements which have to be met for a foreignspouse or civil partner (other than one from inside the European EconomicArea) of a British citizen or person settled in the United Kingdom to be grantedentry clearance enabling him or her to enter the

Summary The vast majority of familyvisas – 77% – were granted to the partners/spouses of British citizens orsettled migrants. The largest number of grants is to Pakistani and Indianapplicants. Some family migrants are more permanent than others – data suggeststhat the majority of people who enter on partner visas from

This week we were treated tothe news that ‘opposition to immigration drops when people are told about theeconomic benefits of net migration’. Former Labour ImmigrationMinister Barbara Roche – who presided over much of Labour’s immigrationshambles – claimed that ‘when the full facts of migration are presented to theBritish people, they

Today, the Mayor of London Boris Johnson made a speech about investment in the future of London. He pointed to the ‘demographic explosion’ now occurring and the resulting huge shortage of both homes and school places but he made no reference to the impact of immigration. He seemed to regard

On Thursday 6 June both Housesof Parliament debated the demand by five chairmen of Parliamentary Committeesthat the government remove students from their net migration target. Thegovernment have flatly refused to the fury of these eminent Parliamentarians. Theypoint out that the Universities Lobby have got their facts completely wrong.Contrary to their