UK Immigration News

The UK's Tier 4 student visa system has been targeted by organised crime gangs according to immigration minister James Brokenshire. One MP described the fraud on the system as 'criminality on a massive scale'.

A new study has found that ethnic minority immigration to the UK may have had a significant effect on the recent European elections.

Analysis of electoral data shows that about 66% of white Britons supported the right-of-centre Conservative Party or the anti-European Union UK Independence Party at the recent elections for seats in the European Parliament.

A detailed poll has found that the UK is deeply divided in its attitudes to immigration. The 2014 British Social Attitudes Survey has found that younger people, Londoners and those with a university education tend to think of immigration as positive whereas the elderly, those living outside London and those with little education tend to see it as negative.

The UK will announce new measures to make it easier for Chinese nationals to get UK visas during a three day state visit to the UK by Chinese premier Li Keqiang. The UK's Home Secretary, Theresa May will announce the measures during the visit.

Last week the Chinese ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, warned that Chinese investors were being deterred from investing in the UK because of difficulties in obtaining UK visas.

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has said that London can only thrive if it continues to welcome immigrants but he has added that, once immigrants arrive, they must be strongly encouraged to integrate into British society.

Speaking at Investment 2020, an investment conference in London, Mr Johnson, who studied classics at Oxford, compared the capital to two city states in ancient Greece; Athens and Sparta. Mr Johnson said that London would do better to follow the example of Athens, rather than Sparta, if it is to survive and prosper.

The immigration signage in UK airports is still branded with the logo of the UK Border Agency over a year after the agency was abolished.

On 26th March 2013, Home Secretary Theresa May abolished the UKBA saying that it had developed 'a secretive and defensive culture' and was 'not good enough'.