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MW316 : Asylum Seekers and the Right to Work in the European Economic Area | Migration Watch UK
Summary 1. Every member state of the EEA, except the Republic of Ireland and Lithuania, grants asylum seekers the right to work at some point during their application process. The United Kingdom grants the right to work after 12 months if the applicant is still awaiting a decision. However, the
Immigration at the Party Conferences 2013
Summary Immigration was the dog that prowled but didn’t bark. As expected, UKIP majored on it but did not make any policy announcements. Labour put forward a series of relatively trivial policy suggestions but there was little recognition of the mass immigration that they had triggered in government and no
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
Comment on the end of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme | Migration Watch UK
Welcoming the Government’s decision to bring to an end the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: ‘This decision has to be right. We now have a labour market of 500 million in the European Union, it simply makes no sense to bring in
Public strongly oppose votes for foreign citizens | Migration Watch UK
Last week a report by Migrationwatch revealed that about one million Commonwealth citizens who are not British citizens nevertheless have the right to vote in our General Elections. The government’s response was that this right to vote in our elections “reflects our close historical ties with Commonwealth countries. Excluding Commonwealth
Migration Watch UK response to the latest net migration figures – students are a key element in net migration. | Migration Watch UK
Despite a small increase over the quarter, these latest figures show that government policy is succeeding in reducing inflows from outside the EU – by 50,000 over the year. Future reductions in net migration will depend on ensuring that people leave when they should. In this connection the student figures
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