UK immigration statistics underestimated total by 350,000 in a decade
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19:25 11/04/2014
The UK's Office for National Statistics says that it underestimated the true extent of immigration from Eastern Europe between 2001 and 2011 by about 350,000. It says that the error occurred because...
UK immigration inspector investigates sham marriages
12:44 28/02/2014
The UK's Chief Inspector of Immigration, John Vine, has been conducting research into abuse of the marriage system by immigrants seeking to obtain residence in the UK. Mr Vine has warned that sham...
UK 'misguided' on EU immigration policy says EU commissioner
13:25 20/01/2014
Laszlo Andor, the EU's commissioner for social affairs and social inclusion, says that the debate on migration within the EU has become 'emotional and misguided'. He said that the press, particularly...
EU vice president accuses UK PM of fuelling immigration fears
13:51 15/01/2014
Viviane Reding, the vice president of the European Union, has accused the UK's Prime Minister David Cameron of risking the future of the British people by using populist, anti-EU rhetoric to try to...
Lech Walesa accuses UK of immigration 'irrationality'
13:38 13/01/2014
The former Polish president Lech Walesa has accused the UK's prime minister David Cameron of behaving 'irrationally and short-sightedly' over immigration. Mr Walesa was speaking on Polish television...
UK's migrant population quadruples in 60 years
15:35 10/01/2014
The UK's Office for National Statistics has released information about the make-up of the country's immigrant population since 1951. The main finding s that the immigrant population quadrupled from 1...
