Foreign citizens votes could critically affect outcome of 2015 election and EU referendum | Migration Watch UK
A million foreign citizens can vote in all British elections Commonwealth Citizens who have not yet qualified for British Citizenship, or have not even applied, should no longer be entitled to vote in British general elections, nor in the forthcoming referendum on UK membership of the EU. That is the conclusion of a report issued today by […]
Family Permits for EU citizens[1] in Britain
MW298 : Family Permits for EU citizens in Britain | Migration Watch UK
Summary 1. Recent reforms to family migration for British citizens are undermined by EU law that allows EU citizens living in the UK to bypass British Immigration Rules and bring in their non-EU partners and family members with no salary or other conditions. They gain immediate and full access to benefits. 20,000 took advantage of […]
MW296 : The British in Europe | Migration Watch UK
Summary 1. Claims that some two million British people are working in other EU states[1] are simply wrong. The number of British workers in the other countries of the European Union, about 407,000[2], is less than one third of the 1.4 million workers from another EU country in the UK. The number of British residents in […]
MW289 : EU Nationals and access to the British Welfare State | Migration Watch UK
Summary 1. Access to the UK benefit system is primarily based on residence. An EU national who moves to the UK and is considered habitually resident has the same entitlement to benefits as a UK national regardless of their previous tax or National Insurance contributions. Habitual Residence is automatic in the case of workers and […]
MW288 : UK Child Benefit and non-UK resident EU children | Migration Watch UK
Summary 1 The UK pays child benefit and child tax credits to almost 50,000 children who live in another EU country. The most common country of residence is Poland, where claims are made for almost 30,000 children. British rates are about four times those in Poland. The cost to the British taxpayer is just over […]
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 […]
MW251 : European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) – Article 8 | Migration Watch UK
This Article states: 1 Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence. 2 There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the […]
MW231 : The European Convention on Human Rights | Migration Watch UK
1 A recent report by Civitas, otherwise the Institute for the Study of Civil Society, under the title of “Strasbourg in the Dock: Prisoner voting, human rights and the case for democracy” has trenchantly analysed some of the current problems with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and in particular with the functioning of the Court […]
European Asylum and Immigration Policy
Developments in 2010 Executive Summary 1. The most important recent development in relation to the long-term future of EU asylum and immigration policy took place on 1st December 2009, when the Lisbon European Reform Treaty (now renamed the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union or TFEU) entered into force. The TFEU fully preserves […]