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UK immigration minister changes nature of citizenship test

17:16 29/01/2013
The UK's immigration minister has announced changes to the UK's citizenship test. Mark Harper said that the changes were necessary because the old test tested people's knowledge of 'how to claim...

UK watchdog finds new backlog of immigration applications

9:48 28/01/2013
The UK's chief inspector of immigration, John Vine, has found yet another backlog at the UK Border Agency (UKBA). Mr Vine published his new report into the UKBA's systems for dealing with marriage...

Study says almost a million illegal immigrants living in the UK

15:22 11/01/2013
A new report issued by a leading UK university estimates that there are 863,000 people living illegally in the UK out of which 604,000 (70%) live in London.> The report, Practical Measures for...

UK government will not meet immigration target says think tank

14:08 10/01/2013
The UK government will not meet its target of reducing net immigration to below 100,000 annually, according to a respected think tank. A report issued by the Institute for Public Policy Research (...

UK opposition leader says immigrants must speak English

11:32 19/12/2012
Ed Miliband, the leader of the UK's Labour opposition gave a speech on 14th December 2012 in which he said that the last Labour government had made mistakes in its immigration policy when it was in...

Critics attack new, 'morally wrong' UK family immigration rules

19:57 10/12/2012
Changes to the UK's rules for family migrants are splitting families apart and creating a 'two-tier system; those who are rich enough to live with whom they choose and those deemed to be too poor to...

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