UK minister says Romanian UK Immigration estimates are 'meaningless'
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11:24 26/03/2013
Eric Pickles, the UK's Communities Minister, has revealed that a UK government report estimates that 12,700 Romanians and Bulgarians will settle in the UK in 2014. Speaking on 18th March 2013, Mr...
MAC recommends reduction in UK immigration's shortage occupation list
18:23 20/03/2013
Changes to UK immigration are to be introduced on April 6th – read about them here! To come under the Tier 2 (General) visa scheme it is easier if the occupation is on the Shortage Occupation List...
UK government in small U-turn on post study work UK immigration route
19:59 15/03/2013
On 14th March 2013, The UK's immigration minister, Mark Harper, announced changes to the UK's Tier 4 student visa. He announced in the House of Commons that from 6 April 2013, all foreign PhD...
COMMENT – UK's EU dilemma over Romanian/Bulgarian immigration estimates
16:31 07/03/2013
By Alex Owen The UK government has got itself into trouble over immigration figures again. The UK press has been asking government ministers for an estimated figure of the number of Romanians and...
BBC criticised for being uncritical of UK anti-immigration pressure group
15:11 06/03/2013
The Migration Matters Trust, a UK group founded by parliamentarians to encourage an open and honest debate about immigration in the UK, has criticised the BBC for accepting statistics presented by an...
UK immigration figures show fall of one third
10:59 05/03/2013
The latest immigration statistics have been released by the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS). They show that net immigration for the year ending in June 2012 was a third lower than it was in...
