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Briefing Note: Attempts To Fiddle The Immigration Figures Are Bound To Fail
Removing students from the net migration statistics would be wrong in principle and impossible in practice. It is wrong in principle to remove over half of the recorded inflow. There is no difference between a worker and student if they are both here for several years, as the Minister for
60,000 Bogus Students Could Have Entered the UK Last Year – Government “have bottled out on bogus students | Migration Watch UK
As many as 60,000 bogus students could have entered the UK in 2011 alone. This is the conclusion of a study by Migration Watch, based on the findings of a Home Office pilot scheme which were published last week. Under the pilot scheme applicants for student visas were interviewed to determine
Removal of Students from Immigration Figures | Migration Watch UK
Students: Genuine or Bogus? 23 July, 2012 Summary 1 Students make up a large proportion of those who enter the country each year, making it imperative that only those who enter should be genuine. The recent Home Office pilot scheme designed to assess a student’s credibility found that, amongst those
Population Size
By Sir Andrew Green,Chairman, Migration Watch UK,The Times, London 20 July, 2012 Sir, Your leading article (“Census and sensibility”, July 17) suggests that population size is not a cause for concern. That will surprise many of your readers, especially those in England and certainly those in London and the South East
MW272 : Office of Budget Responsibility: Immigration and Public Debt | Migration Watch UK
The graph below, taken from the latest OBR Report has been seized upon by the immigration lobby as it purports to show that immigration helps us to tackle our debt problem. Two points they did not make: We believe that it was irresponsible not to have made these points clearer.
MW270 : Right to Family Life – New Immigration Rules | Migration Watch UK
1 The Home Office has recently promulgated a document running to 45 pages which substantially amends those paragraphs of the Immigration Rules which relate to family life. In this paper I am concentrating on those amendments which relate to the ability of convicted immigrant criminals to plead in accordance with