UK Immigration News

Afzal Amin recently resigned as the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Dudley North, less than two months before the UK General Election on 7 May 2015. This is following recent allegations of an attempted plot between Amin and the anti-immigration and anti-muslim English Defence League (EDL). Apparently, the intention was that EDL would announce a fake march in Dudley North; The march would not actually go ahead and Amin would then take credit for preventing the march.

Official figures obtained via a Freedom of Information request submitted by the Daily Express show that the UK is currently spending over £700,000 a day on feeding and sheltering asylum seekers.

With net migration at its highest in 10 years, and with border control struggling to process more than three asylum applications per hour, the true cost of those receiving benefits as they await an outcome on their case has been revealed.

New immigration checks starting on April 8th may cause queues stretching five miles back, ferry companies at Dover have warned. For anyone who is struggling to imagine a five mile queue it is roughly 650 cars.

Why the Home Office is bound to encounter problems

The expected chaos at ferry port terminals is due to new immigration checks for every person leaving Britain, part of a pledge by David Cameron in the 2010 Conservative manifesto to check every passenger coming into and leaving the country.

With the UK general election under two months away, all the major political parties have been promoting their manifestos; This includes various election pledges. One of the hottest pre-election topics, alongside the NHS and housing crisis, is immigration.

Speaking in Margate at the anti-immigration/anti-EU UKIP's spring conference, Nigel Farage said that the UK should have an Australian-style points system to determine who can settle in the country. Perhaps a bit of an odd remark to make as the UK has had a points based system since 2008.

Theresa May has revealed plans to overhaul the visa system for visitors to the UK. Mrs May wants to make it easier for business people and performing artists and certain others to access Britain.

She has outlined sweeping changes, set to be introduced in April, which will see the current 15 visa categories scrapped and in its place a new system from which visitors can choose from four visa types.