Two Thirds of Births in London are to a Foreign Born Parent | Migration Watch UK
Today it was revealed, in response to a parliamentary question from the Rt. Hon. Nicholas Soames MP, Co-Chairman of the Cross Party Group on Balanced Migration, that in 2010 two thirds of all births in London are to parents where one or both are foreign born. This rises to 84% in Newham and 81% in Westminster. […]
MW246 : Marriage Visas and English Language Requirements | Migration Watch UK
The requirements to be met by applicants for marriage visas needed to bring in to the United Kingdom with a view to settlement in the UK spouses from countries outside the EEA are set out in Rule 281 of the Immigration Rules made under section 3 of the Immigration Act 1971. The basic requirements have […]
MW245 : Family Visitor Appeals | Migration Watch UK
Summary 1. The number of family visitor appeals has increased six fold, to nearly a thousand a week, since charges were abolished in 2002. The cost has reached approximately £1 million a week. The definition of family visitor is so wide that it could include as many as 120 relatives of a middle aged person […]
MW241 : Forced Marriage and the Supreme Court – What Next? | Migration Watch UK
In legal Legal Paper MW 240 I summarised the judgement of the Supreme Court in the case of Quila, decided in October 2011. In 2008 Rule 277 of the Immigration Rules had been amended to raise the minimum age for the issue of marriage visas from 18 to 21. The motivation behind this amendment was to deter […]
MW240 : Forced Marriage and the Supreme Court | Migration Watch UK
The important case of Quila v. Secretary of State for the Home Department [1] UKSC 45 was decided by the Supreme Court on 12 October 2011. It was brought by two appellants who were refused leave to enter as spouses on grounds of their being under the age of 21 in accordance with Rule 277 of the […]
Tighten Rules on Foreign Marriage Partners Says Think Tank | Migration Watch UK
A call for tightening the rules on marriages to foreign partners has come from think-tank Migrationwatch (See Briefing Paper No. 10.25). It comes in the wake of a Home Affairs Committee report which reported on forced marriages among some sections of the ethnic communities; the changes are needed to ensure that young people are not put […]
Marriage to a Foreign Partner
Summary Introduction2. The virtual abandonment of interviews for marriage visas leaves the door wide open for marriages where one or both parties have come under pressure to marry against their will. It also fails to ensure that the spouse will not become a burden on public funds and that the spouse has the language skills […]
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 given a new power to […]
MW230 : The prevention of sham marriages | Migration Watch UK
1 For some years sham marriages – marriages intended to avoid immigration rules – have been a significant problem. Figures from Brent alone showed an increasing number of marriages year by year: 1,205 in 2002, 2,700 in 2003 and 3,700 in 2004. 2 Accordingly, in 2004, the government sought to introduce a system of control […]
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 agreed. The case is the […]