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 Immigration himself pointed out last […]
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 whether they were genuine. This […]
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 who failed the credibility test, […]
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 where daily life consists of […]
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.
Comment on Today’s 2011 Census Release | Migration Watch UK
Commenting, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: “This census confirms the impact of mass immigration on our population. We now find that even the official numbers previously understated the scale of net migration by 14% and even this does not account for the illegal immigrant population who would not complete the census […]
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 Article 8 of the European […]
MW271 : Bill of Rights – Second Consultation | Migration Watch UK
1 In our Legal Paper MW 237 published in August 2011 I set out the views of Migration Watch in response to the initial consultation paper issued by the Commission on Human Rights. For all the reasons set out in that paper we expressed ourselves to be strongly opposed to a new Bill of Rights. […]
Immigration Mythology
1 Introduction This paper outlines the many myths that are put forward by the mass immigration lobby in support of the current levels of immigration and dispels each myth in turn. 2 ‘Immigration provides great economic benefit’ For many years the government claimed that immigration added £6 billion a year to GDP. […]
The Impact of Immigration on Maternity Services in England
Summary 1 Between 2000 and 2010 births in England increased by over 114,000 – from 572,826 to 687,007. Immigration has been the key factor fuelling this increase: three quarters of the increase in births was to women born outside the UK. Overall, in 2010, over a quarter of all live births in England were to […]