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Migration Watch UK Press Comment on Net Migration Statistics | Migration Watch UK
Commenting on today’s immigration statistics Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: “Government policy is succeeding in bringing down non-EU migration but they have been blown off course by a sharp increase of 66,000 migrants from the EU. EU migrants now comprise nearly half of foreign net migration.
Migration Watch UK Press Comment on the National Statistics of Romanians and Bulgarians in UK | Migration Watch UK
The Office for National Statistics has today released its quarterly Labour Market Statistics which show that the number of Romanians and Bulgarians working in the UK in the period October-December 2013 was estimated to be 144,000. This is compared to 102,000 for the same period in 2012, an increase of 41 percent.
International Students: The Case for Refining their Visa Regime
Summary 1. The Tier 4 student visa should be divided into three visas, one for each type of study: University, Further Education, and English Language. This would allow for a better understanding of the international student sector and for greater flexibility in entry requirements that properly reflects the different risks
MW324 : A Liberal Democrat Recipe for the Abandonment of Immigration Control | Migration Watch UK
1. A Centre Forum paper published on 23 December contains 21 recommendations. Eighteen are relatively trivial. The other three seem designed to destroy the coalition government’s efforts to control immigration. 2. This intention is camouflaged by the claim that immigration policy should be structured to promote economic growth – a
Lib Dem immigration policy “vacuous“ | Migration Watch UK
Last night on the BBC2 programme “The truth about immigration“, Vince Cable was dismissive of the government’s immigration objective and suggested that it was time to be “practical“. As it happens, the Lib Dem think tank Centre Forum has just published a paper, sprinkled with quotations from Vince Cable, entitled
MW323 : Options for Romanian and Bulgarian migrants in 2014 | Migration Watch UK
Summary 1. The UK, Germany, France and the Netherlands are the four major countries opening their labour markets in January 2014. All four are likely to be financially attractive destinations for those wishing to migrate from Romania and Bulgaria but high unemployment might make France less attractive. There will also
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