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Migrationwatch calls for firmer action on sham marriages. | Migration Watch UK
From Monday 9 May, the government is being obliged by the courts to abandon its requirement that a marriage or civil partnership involving a partner subject to immigration control must have the prior permission of the Home Office (a “Certificate of Approval”). Migrationwatch therefore called today for Registrars to be
MW220 : Removal from the United Kingdom and the Rights of Children | Migration Watch UK
The Supreme Court Pronounces The Supreme Court has recent given judgment in the case of ZH (Tanzania) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] UKSC 4. The main judgment was delivered by Lady Hale, the only woman member of the Court, with whom Lord Brown and Lord Mance
North African Crisis Could Test the Asylum System to Destruction | Migration Watch UK
The recent instability caused by revolutionary change and military conflict in some Arab countries in North Africa has the potential to generate substantial flows of migrants into the EU. EU Ministers will meet on 11 May to consider what might be done. Some migrants will be genuine refugees but many
Sham Marriages – The Latest
Sham marriages have been for long a scourge and a means by which people traffickers and other criminals earn illicit fortunes for arranging them. Recent changes in the law have made it necessary to issue a new briefing paper on the subject, superseding the three previous papers, 8.13, 8.38 and 8.49. At
MW68 : Immigration and Marriage – an outline of the legal position | Migration Watch UK
Legal Paper MW 68 originally published July 2005Revised April 2011 This paper is not intended as an authoritative statement of the law but rather as a summary of the position. 1 The requirements for entering the United Kingdom as a spouse are currently set out in paragraph 281 of the
Why Is The Bbc Still So Hideously Biased On Immigration?
By Sir Andrew GreenChairman of Migration Watch UKThe Daily Mail, London, 15 April, 2011 David Cameron has just made the most important speech on immigration of any Prime Minister for many years. He tackled the subject in a frank, open, comprehensive and factual manner, while remaining sensitive to the delicacy of the issues.