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MW246 : Marriage Visas and English Language Requirements | Migration Watch UK
The requirements to be met by applicants for marriage visas needed to bring in to the United Kingdom with a view to settlement in the UK spouses from countries outside the EEA are set out in Rule 281 of the Immigration Rules made under section 3 of the Immigration Act
MW245 : Family Visitor Appeals | Migration Watch UK
Summary 1. The number of family visitor appeals has increased six fold, to nearly a thousand a week, since charges were abolished in 2002. The cost has reached approximately £1 million a week. The definition of family visitor is so wide that it could include as many as 120 relatives
MW244 : Office for Budget Responsibility: Economic and Fiscal Outlook November 2011 | Migration Watch UK
Introduction 1. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) was established in 2010 to provide advice independent of government of the UK’s public finances. Coinciding with the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement, delivered on 29 November 2011, it published forecasts of the economy for the period to 2016/17 and also assessed whether the
MW242 : Population Densities and Immigration | Migration Watch UK
1. The most recent ONS statistics show that there are an estimated 7.1 million non-UK born people resident in the UK[1] of whom 6.6 million or 93% live in England; they comprise 13% of the population. 2. By contrast, in Scotland there are only an estimated 326,000 foreign born migrants who
Migration Watch UK Comment on Migration Advisory Committee Reports issued this morning | Migration Watch UK
In relation to the MAC’s Review of the transitional restrictions on access of Bulgarian and Romanian nationals to the UK labour market, Sir Andrew Green said: “The MAC have got this absolutely right. It would be intolerable to have another inflow of East Europeans when unemployment is running at 2.5 million.” Commenting
MW241 : Forced Marriage and the Supreme Court – What Next? | Migration Watch UK
In legal Legal Paper MW 240 I summarised the judgement of the Supreme Court in the case of Quila, decided in October 2011. In 2008 Rule 277 of the Immigration Rules had been amended to raise the minimum age for the issue of marriage visas from 18 to 21. The motivation behind
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