Immigrants cost the Exchequer between £4 and £17 billion a year | Migration Watch UK
The financial cost of all immigrants taken together amount to between £4 and £17 billion a year. That is the conclusion of a survey of academic work on the subject published by Migration Watch UK today. A focus on recent EU migration reveals a significant difference as between the EU14 and East European migrants. Migrants from the […]
Emergency brake’ will have little or no effect | Migration Watch UK
The ’emergency brake’ on in-work benefits, announced as part of last week’s renegotiation deal, will have little or no effect on net EU migration. That is the conclusion of a new Migration Watch UK report. Migration Watch UK research has found that 50 per cent of those who have arrived in the past four years […]
Lessons from Calais
Summary 1. It is the responsibility of the French government to maintain order in the Calais district but the reason for the intense pressure on the Channel terminals is that very large numbers of migrants, already in the safety of France, are determined to get into Britain. They believe that they will be able to […]
Lessons from Calais | Migration Watch UK
The most effective way to tackle the crisis in Calais is to tackle the motivation of the migrants who seem so determined to get across the channel. That is the conclusion of a report issued by Migrationwatch today. The report concludes that the main motivation to cross the channel is not to seek asylum (France […]
MW348 : The amount spent on Immigration control | Migration Watch UK
1. The total budget for immigration control in 2014/15 was £1.8 billion[1]. This is around 0.25% of the total government expenditure of £700 billion. 2. Around £1 billion of the £1.8 billion comes from the fee income associated with visa applications with a further £800 million coming from the Treasury. 3. Within the Home Office […]
Comment on Chief Inspector for Borders and Immigration’s report on British Nationality Applications | Migration Watch UK
Migration Watch UK comment on the Chief Inspector for Borders and Immigration’s report on British Nationality Applications. Commenting on the report, Alp Mehmet, Vice-Chairman of Migration Watch UK said: “This situation is close to a shambles. About a million people have been granted British citizenship over the past five years with totally inadequate checks. Passports […]
MW343 : Immigration Act 2014 Rights of Appeal | Migration Watch UK
1 Hitherto rights of appeal against adverse Home Office decisions on immigration claims were set out in section 82 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 and a right of appeal against refusal of asylum claims was set out in section 83 of the Act. Section 82 listed 14 different decisions including refusal of […]
MW320 : Proceeds of Crime Act Successfully Used Against an Employer of Illegal Immigrants | Migration Watch UK
Section 15 of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 prescribes civil penalties which may be imposed by the Home office on employers found to have been employing illegal immigrants, i.e. people who have no leave to remain in the UK, whose leave has expired or who have leave but whose leave is subject to […]
Chief Inspector of Immigration: Report on Juxtaposed Controls | Migration Watch UK
Commenting on the report, Mr Alp Mehmet, Vice Chariman of Migration Watch UK said: “The Chief Inspector is right to point to inadequate Border Force resources, especially at Calais. It is time the government accepted that an effective border control can’t be had on the cheap and allocate sufficient resources to address an issue of […]
MW304 : The case for revising the immigration figures | Migration Watch UK
Summary 1. The 2011 census revealed that net migration to England and Wales was around 500,000 higher than previously estimated for the previous decade. The Office of National Statistics (ONS) should now revise their estimates of historical net migration to ensure that they provide an accurate record. The census result means that net foreign migration […]