MW228 : Sham Marriages – The Latest | Migration Watch UK
1 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 (now deleted). 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 Immigration Rules (HC 395) as […]
Cap on Economic Migration Will Have a Limited Effect | Migration Watch UK
The Government’s cap on economic migration which comes into effect on 6 April will have only a limited effect on net migration in the medium term but it could become a barrier against future increases in economic migration. That is the conclusion of a paper published today by Migrationwatch. Generous transition arrangements and effectively unlimited Intra […]
New Wave of East European Workers Takes Lion’s Share of New Jobs and Puts Government Immigration Target at Risk | Migration Watch UK
Figures published today1 show that there were nearly 300,000 more people in employment in the UK in the third quarter of 2010 compared to the same period in 2009. However, nearly half of these jobs went to foreign nationals, including 98,000 extra workers from the new East European members of the EU. There were also an […]
MW193 : Homosexuals, Asylum and the Supreme Court | Migration Watch UK
On 7 July 2010 the Supreme Court delivered judgments in a case with momentous implications for asylum law. The case reference is HJ (Iran) and HT (Cameroon) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [1] UKSC 31. The importance of the case is reflected by the fact that both the Equality and Human Rights Commission of the United Kingdom […]
Massive Increase in Family Visitors. Appeals Now Cost Tax Payers 1 Million a Week | Migration Watch UK
Appeals against the decision of immigration officials to refuse family visas to enter the UK have increased eight fold since charges were abolished by the government in 2002 and are now running at over a thousand a week. They cost the taxpayer £1m a week, says a report from think-tank Migrationwatch. Unlike ordinary visitors, “family visitors” have […]
MW93 : Freedom of Movement in the EU: The Metock Case | Migration Watch UK
This is a case decided by the European Court of Justice [1] in July 2008 on a reference made to it by the Irish High Court. It is concerned with the interpretation of Directive 2004/38/EC (sometimes referred to as the Citizens Directive) on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and […]
MW137 : Does Scotland Need Immigration? | Migration Watch UK
Summary1. Scotland’s population is not declinin&g. As in all developed countries, it is ageing but immigration as a solution to a pensions problem has been dismissed by all serious studies. The economic claims for large scale immigration have been conclusively rejected by the Economic Affairs Committee of the House of Lords after a major investigation; […]
MW40 : Future Migration Flows from Eastern Europe | Migration Watch UK
Summary1. The recent fall in the number of migrants arriving from Eastern European members of the EU has led to suggestions that the immigration problem is on the way to solution. That is far from the case. This paper confirms that Eastern European immigration is likely to come approximately into balance in three or four […]
Potential immigration from Romania and Bulgaria
Summary1. Romania and Bulgaria are due to join the EU on 1 January 2007. 2. Labour market transitional arrangements will be virtually the same as for the first round of East European candidate countries. 3. Their combined population is nearly 30 million and their unemployment rates are 8% (Romania) and 10% (Bulgaria). Bulgaria has 700,000 […]