The problem is that there is no sure way to sort those who pass our criteria from those who are attempting to game them.
A London council have been accused of failing residents after a documentary showed that there is a 50 year waiting time for affordable housing.
The failure of NHS trusts to recover debt from overseas visitors will cost the health service more than £200 million next year.
Fourteen years after the Sangatte refugee centre was shut, riot police and burning tents have returned to the fields of Calais.
Supermarket chief John Allan fears planned immigration controls will create shortage of people willing to do 'ordinary important jobs'.
The public consistently tell pollsters that pressure on services from high levels of migration concern them.
The devastating truth is this: the vast majority of those the courts have decided to remove are still here, writes James Hanratty.
The population of Lithuania has shrunk as people have gone abroad in search of higher wages and better job prospects — half of them to Britain.
Theresa May delivered a slapdown to Chancellor Philip Hammond last night after the Government endured a chaotic 24 hours over the issue of fore.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan is expecting to receive proposals for a new London visa system within weeks .
Reintroducing a Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme to meet the need for part-time workers should be a last resort, says Migration Watch UK.
Amber Rudd is allying with Chancellor Philip Hammond to insist a new visa system could only be brought in gradually.
More than half of England's secondary schools are oversubscribed as they are 'crippled' by a baby boom fuelled by high migration, new figures show.
Earlier this year, Migration Watch UK called for a system similar to the one now being backed by ministers.
The chancellor has angered Eurosceptic ministers by calling for a delay on migration curbs that would lead to a hard Brexit and dismay business.
Amber Rudd made a failed attempt to persuade Theresa May to remove students from the net migration figures, allies say.
London's population grew at twice the rate of the UK as a whole between 2011 and 2015, and could reach almost 10 million by the middle of next decade.
Theresa May offers to accept more scrutiny of Brexit plans in a bid to stop Tory rebels backing a Labour motion.
The boss of the CBI business group insisted she will fight to protect Britain’s open-door immigration policy.
French authorities have agreed to verify by the end of this week a list of 387 child refugees with a legal right to come to the UK.
Brexit, we are told, means Brexit, but what does Brexit mean for immigration – a key issue in the referendum?
Companies will be forced to reveal how many foreign workers they employ under government plans to shame bosses who fail to take on British staff.
Stansted Airport has blamed a lack of Border Force staff as the reason for passengers facing chaotic scenes as thousands queued at passport control.
Amber Rudd is expected to use her conference speech to announce plans to limit the number of non-EU migrants.
The number of medical school places will increase by 25% from 2018 under plans to make England 'self-sufficient' in training doctors.