Visa 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 of financial means of support […]
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 of Romania is around600,000. A […]
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 were to be a movement […]
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. The minimum wage is only […]
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 largely ignored.’
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 half the new lets by […]
Judicial Review – Proposals For Reform
The Ministry of Justice has recently published aconsultation paper on this subject. Theneed for reform arises because of the enormous growth in numbers ofapplications for Judicial Review (JR) and the paper acknowledges in paragraph24 that the main area of growth has been in immigration and asylum cases. In 2000 there were 4250 applications and in2011 […]
MW285 : Bill of Rights – Commission’s Report | Migration Watch UK
The Commission set up in 2011 to report on the possibility of a UK Bill of Rights published its report yesterday, 18 December. It has not attracted much attention from the media. The report itself runs to 282 pages, which I do not claim to have read in full. I was aware that its terms […]
Sir Andrew Green’s Letter In The Daily Telegraph
Curbing Immigration Sir, I am most grateful for your generousendorsement of Migrationwatch in today’s editorial (“Labour has noright to lecture on immigration”). Looking ahead, we must recognize that many are shell shocked by the pace ofchange in our society, now underscored by the census results. Integratingthe nearly three million immigrants who have arrived in the […]
Speech by Labour Party Leader | Migration Watch UK
Following the speech made this morning by the Labour Party Leader, Ed Miliband, Sir Andrew Green said: “The steps which Ed Miliband outlined to promote integration are perfectly sensible but there was a glaring gap in his speech – namely his failure to say anything significant about limiting the scale of future immigration. Apparently, he […]