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UK Border Agency awards contract to outsourcing firm Capita.

18:09 19/09/2012
The UK Border Agency (UKBA), one of Britain's main immigration authorities, has placed a contract to find and deport illegal immigrants in the hands of a private sector company, Capita. The contract...

Surveys show UK antipathy towards immigration is growing

17:44 19/09/2012
Two surveys of UK attitudes to immigration suggest that UK attitudes to immigration are hardening. The British Social Attitudes Survey, a survey conducted annually which polls Britons on their...

UK immigration may introduce fast stream passport checks for VIPs

11:38 19/09/2012
The acting head of the UK Border Force (the UKBF), Brian Moore, told the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee that the organisation is considering the introduction of a fast stream at...

UK minister says students should be removed from immigration figures

11:16 19/09/2012
The United Kingdom's Universities Minister, David Willetts MP, has said that international students should be removed from the net migration figures that are released every year by the UK's Office...

Universities minister seeks to protect UK's reputation with foreign students

18:54 13/09/2012
The universities minister David Willetts today addressed a conference of UK universities in Keele and said that the government would be doing all it could to send out a message to international...

UKBA to close biometric clinics on Borneo until 2013

11:40 13/09/2012
The United Kingdom Border Agency (UKBA), one of the UK's immigration authorities, which has responsibility for visa applications made overseas, has said that it is to cease its mobile biometric...

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