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Is the fall in net immigration due to a fall in student numbers? | Migration Watch UK
Immigration data The latest net migration statistics to March 2012 show a significant fall in net migration to 183,000 – a reduction of 59,000 from the figure for year ending March 2011. According to the ONS News release “this reduction in immigration was largely due to fewer people arriving to
Rule Change Opens NHS to the World | Migration Watch UK
A recent government decision threatens to turn the NHS into the ‘World Health Service’ and should be rescinded as a matter of urgency, says a think tank in a report out today. Its provisionsallow illegal migrants and foreign visitors full and free access to primary care services, which can be the
Migration Watch UK Calls For Targetted Assistance For Start-Ups | Migration Watch UK
A paper issued by Migration Watch UK today describes the bureaucracy facing a company that wishes to recruit a member of staff from outside the EU. After reading 108 pages of guidance, they need 10 sets of information to hand before completing an online application to become a registered sponsor. Commenting Sir
MW281 : UNHCR Guidelines – Sexual Orientation | Migration Watch UK
1 The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) published on 23 October 2012 a new set of Guidelines on International Protection relating specifically to claims to refugee status based on sexual orientation under the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees. These Guidelines supplement the UNHCR Handbook on Procedures
Letter by Sir Andrew Green
Letter by Sir Andrew Green ,Chairman, Migration Watch UKThe Economist, 3 November, 2012 It is surely impossible toargue that Britain’s immigration policy is “crippling” business and the economy(“The Tories’ barmiest policy”, October 20th)when there is no limit to staff transfers between international companies andonly half the available work permits have been taken up.
Immigration Control Is No Barrier To Economic Recovery
Introduction: The Economist andothers, such as Jonathan Portes (Director of the NIESR) are wrong to claim thatimmigration control is acting as a barrier to economic recovery. A carefulexamination of the immigration statistics does not support their exaggeratedclaims. That is not to say that the bureaucracy cannot be improved andMigrationwatch will be