UK visas and immigration chief answers MPs questions
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19:11 21/06/2013
The acting head of the UK's visa and immigration services has appeared before a committee of MPs in Westminster to answer questions about her progress in improving the UK's visa and immigration...
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Cabinet minister seems to support removal of students from UK immigration statistics
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UK announces fall in net immigration figure
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The latest figures show that there has been a significant drop in the net level of immigration into the UK. The net immigration figure is reached by calculating the number of immigrants over a given...
