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This 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. Four in ten overseas students (130,000 people in 2018/19) either extend their permission to remain
Rwanda 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 more detail about how many people this will involve. A little-noted clause in the Rwanda agreement commits
Quick 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 has been recording the numbers for the past two years, based upon bulletins by the
Government 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 increase immigration further. This new route (the so-called ‘High Potential Individual’ visa) would allow graduates
We 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 and give the public a fast and clear picture of what is happening on net
Nearly 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 National Statistics (based upon data from NHS Digital) show that there have been about seven