Legislation
The Border and Immigration Agency of the Home Office (successor to the Immigration and Nationality Directorate) recently published a consultation paper which can be seen on its website at www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk and policy/consultation documents. The following Acts of Parliament are directly concerned with asylum and immigration: Immigration Act 1971Immigration Act 1988Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act 1993Special Immigration Appeals […]
Assuring Identity – a new approach
Summary This paper describes an approach to identity cards which has the following key features: • No compulsion to acquire a card • No compulsion to carry a card • Payment made to those Registering • Disincentives for those not Registering This approach maintains all the benefits associated with having identity cards, but avoids those aspects […]
MW62 : Asylum Laws: A Way Forward | Migration Watch UK
Summary1. False asylum claimants are clogging up the system to the detriment of genuine refugees. The present legal framework is unable to deliver the only humane solution – the swift grant of asylum to those who deserve it and the rapid removal of those who do not. The 1951 Refugee Convention and the Human Rights […]
Appeal outcome could be ‘tip of iceberg’ | Migration Watch UK
Think-tank Migrationwatch has warned that the outcome of the appeal on ‘late asylum claims’ is only the tip of an iceberg that could seriously damage the Government’s new Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 – seen as crucial to reducing soaring asylum numbers. A legal opinion, available in full in the Research Papers secton of […]
Response to High Court ruling… | Migration Watch UK
In response to the High Court decision allowing a challenge by six asylum seekers against new rules denying them housing and benefit, Migrationwatch issued the following statement. ‘This is good news for asylum seekers but bad news for Britain – and again it exposes the chaos that is the Government’s asylum policy. While no one […]
Response to 2001 Census figures… | Migration Watch UK
The following comment was issued to the media on February 13, 2003 in respect of the results of the 2001 Census. ‘These figures illustrate just how quickly and profoundly the character of some parts of our cities is changing. Indeed the changes will accelerate as the current record levels of immigration work through. As a […]