London businesses seek visa reforms
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13:27 25/09/2014
Almost 50% of London-based businesses are calling for the UK government to reform the Tier 2 visa system over concerns about a shortage of skilled workers. A recent business survey was carried out by...
Lord Heseltine: Foreign students should be excluded from UK immigration cuts
11:36 24/09/2014
A former UK deputy Prime Minister has called for foreign students to be excluded from the UK government's immigration figures, explaining that students are 'not the sort of people causing the anxiety...
Record number of visitors to the UK from Philippines
10:58 24/09/2014
New records were set for the numbers of Filipino visitors traveling to the UK. In the 12 months prior to March 2014, 49,000 visas were issued to Filipinos. There was a 27% increase in the number of...
Immigration to be key battleground in UK general election
16:55 17/09/2014
There are still nine months until the UK's next general election. The main parties are preparing for a lengthy campaign and have already hinted at details of some of their policies, although their...
Deputy PM: UK has scrapped plans to reduce immigration to 'tens of thousands'
11:26 17/09/2014
The UK's Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, says that the UK coalition government has scrapped plans to reduce annual immigration to below 100,000 annually. Mr Clegg, the leader of the Liberal...
UK's Chief inspector of immigration resigns
19:41 15/09/2014
John Vine, the independent chief inspector of the UK's borders and immigration services, has announced that he will leave his post on 31st December this year, six months before the end of his current...
