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Deportation Of Murderers Plummets In Midst Of Flurry Of Human Rights Challenges
Collapsing enforcement and the present border chaos threatens the safety of families in the UK. This is because, in the midst of huge abuse of human rights law, removals of high harm individuals have plummeted.…
Learn MoreThis False Claim Drove The Government To Vastly Weaken Study Visa Rules, With Shocking Results
SUMMARY: Basing policy decisions on fake news can have far-reaching and damaging consequences. It has been widely claimed by government and throughout the media that 97% of overseas students depart after graduating. This is completely misleading.…
Learn MoreRwanda Deal Means Refugees Coming To Britain From Africa, Government Admits
The government have said that the asylum deal with Rwanda will lead to a ‘small number of the most vulnerable refugees in Rwanda will be resettled in the UK‘ but have not yet provided any…
Learn MoreQuick Facts On Illegal Boat Crossings
1. The number of boat arrivals since 1 January 2018 has now passed 50,000 and crossings are now double what they were compared with last year (which was an all-time record). Source: See our Boat Tracking Stationwhich…
Learn MoreGovernment Punishes British Graduates With More Immigration Even After Border Control Betrayal
Days after statistics showedthat the government handed out a million visa entry grants to overseas nationals to come to the UK in the past year, the government has put in place a new visa which would…
Learn MoreWe Need Transparency On Immigration
What should be done? The public must be given a much clearer picture of what is actually happening on immigration levels. In order to achieve this, the government should step in to restore the IPS…
Learn MoreNearly 7 Million New Registrations By Migrants With General Practitioners Since 2010
General practice in England alone provides over 300 million patient consultations each year. But what pressure does the uncontrolled, mass immigration that we have now put on the NHS? Analysis of statistics produced by the Office for…
Learn MorePopular Plan To Send Illegal Arrivals To Rwanda Would Stop Profits Going To Criminal Smugglers
Voters back the government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda by two to one, a poll reveals. And even Labour voters are more likely to support the idea than oppose it. Some 47 per…
Learn MoreChildren Threatened With Drowning: Lawless Reality Challenges Woke Narrative On Boats
The Government has pledged action after finally confirming alarming incidents in which babies and children are threatened with drowning in the English Channel. A minister in the House of Lords told fellow peers who migrants…
Learn MoreVisa Requirements For The Schengen Area
According to the Consulate General of France inEdinburgh, an application for a short stay visa of up to 90 days requires 10original documents and 10 photocopies of them, including: – a national passport or official traveldocument – two recent passport size photographs – proof of applicants current status/occupation – proof
Guardian Headline Contradicted By Research Quoted In The Same Article
An article in the Guardian “Commentis free” site on the 30 January reported a poll by Ires, aRomanian polling agency, which found that 15% of Romanians resident in Romania were“very interested” in working abroad of whom 1 in 4 would choose the UK as thepreferred destination. 4% of the adult population
Immigration from Romania and Bulgaria | Migration Watch UK
Immigration from Romania and Bulgaria could amount to 50,000 a year in the first five years. That is the conclusion of a study issued by Migration Watch UK today. 250,000 is the population of a city of the size of Plymouth or Newcastle. That number could be considerably higher if there
Immigration from Romania and Bulgaria
Summary 1. The precedent of East European immigration between 2004 and 2011 provides a basis on which to estimate future migration from Romania and Bulgaria. Like Poland in 2004 their GDP per head is only about one fifth of that of the UK and both suffer from high youth unemployment.
Mid-term Review: Comment By Vice Chair
Alp Mehmet said: ‘The mid term review is incredibly mealy mouthed about immigration. It speaks only of “preventing a large increase in overall immigration.” Doubtless at Lib Dem insistence and despite the results of the census, the strength of the public’s desire to get immigration down to acceptable levels has been
Social Housing in London: What is the True Story? | Migration Watch UK
There have long been suspicions that the public have not been told the full story about the impact of immigration on the queues for social housing. Research by Migrationwatch into the situation in London, published today, confirms that there are important questions to be answered. It finds that less than