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MW175 : Over Half a Million Newly Arrived Foreign Migrants Registered with GPs Last Year | Migration Watch UK
1 Official statistics show that 605,000 people, arriving from overseas registered with GPs in 2007/8. Analysis by Migrationwatch indicates that this was nearly 100,000 more than the inflow recorded in the International Migration Statistics for England and Wales for the same period. This suggests that short-term migrants (or illegal migrants)
MW173 : Asylum – The Supreme Court Allows Repetitious Appeals | Migration Watch UK
1 The new United Kingdom Supreme Court began to function from 1 October 2009 from the sumptuously refurbished Middlesex Guildhall on Parliament Square, opposite the Palace of Westminster. It took over the judicial function previously exercised by the House of Lords of being the final court of appeal for all
Draft Immigration Bill 2009Migration Watch Comments
SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS Note : In this summary and in the text which follows, our comments which involve adding new provisions to the draft Bill are shown in bold type. 1 This draft (Draft B) is a much enlarged version of the draft originally published in July 2008 (Draft A)
Immigration Figures Due for Release on 26 November 2009Background Briefing | Migration Watch UK
Annual immigration figures for calendar 2008, the last before the election, will be published by the ONS on Thursday 26 November. The note (Briefing Paper 9.26) puts the figures, and Government claims about their immigration policy, into perspective.
MW170 : Immigration Figures Due for Release 26 November 2009Background Briefing | Migration Watch UK
Annual immigration figures for calendar 2008, the last before the election, will be published by the ONS on Thursday 26 November. This Briefing Paper puts them, and Government claims about their immigration policy, into perspective. The Government’s bogus claims 1 The Minister for Immigration has been claiming that net immigration
MW169 : 70 MILLION : MYTH OR NOT? | Migration Watch UK
Summary 1. Some responses to the ONS population projections published on 21 October[1] have been to claim that there are reasons to believe that 70 million will not, in practice, happen. This note examines some of the arguments. Projections are not predictions 2. The ONS say explicitly that their projections do
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