UK Immigration News

The latest figures from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) show that Germany has become the second most popular destination for migrants after the United States.

The OECD published a copy of its information leaflet Migration Policy Debates on 20th May 2014. It says that Germany has risen from the ninth most popular destination for migrants in 2009 to second most popular in 2012. Most of the migrants come from central, eastern and southern Europe.

Sajid Javid, the first Muslim man in the UK cabinet, has said that immigrants to the UK should learn English and should 'respect our way of life'.

Interviewed in The Sunday Telegraph newspaper, Mr Javid was asked why he believed that many people have said they will vote for the anti-immigration UK Independence Party at the European Parliament elections on May 22nd.

The Prime Minister of the UK, David Cameron, says that he is 'working towards' his target of reducing net immigration into the UK to 'tens of thousands' a year by the 2015 general election.

Mr Cameron was interviewed on satellite TV news channel Sky News by journalist Dermot Murnaghan on 18th May 2014. Mr Murnaghan asked him if he believed that the UK would meet the target on five occasions. Mr Cameron failed to answer the question.

He said that 'we are working towards it and we're doing everything we can to deliver it'.

Robert Buckland, a member of the UK parliament, has written an opinion piece for UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph saying that immigration from the EU to the UK is 'essential' to the future of the UK.

Mr Buckland is the MP for Swindon South and a member of the Conservative Party headed by Prime Minister David Cameron. The Conservative Party is often seen as being, in general, against the European Union and against immigration.

Sir James Dyson, one of the UK's leading entrepreneurs, has again criticised the UK immigration system.

Sir James, who founded and runs Dyson best known for its range of vacuum cleaners, said that it was 'sheer madness' for the UK to train large numbers of engineers at its universities and then not allow them to stay in the UK. This, he said, would mean that other Countries will benefit from an influx of new engineers rather than the UK.

The UK's Prime Minister David Cameron has insisted that the UK can still reduce net immigration to below 100,000 a year by the time of the general election in May 2015. He said that this was 'perfectly feasible' but admitted that immigration has not yet come down as much as he would have liked.