UK Immigration News

A recent survey conducted by the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS) has found that the first group of international students who were granted a new UK post-study work visa have high job satisfaction and employment rates, according to a report published by The Pie News.

 

A UK immigration scheme launched by the Home Office, which electronically tags asylum seekers after they arrive in the UK, has been blasted by ministers and refugee charity organisations. The Home Office has been accused of ‘victim blaming’, while ministers have been urged to abandon the policy described as a ‘farce’ by rights’ group.

 

Amid record-high job vacancy numbers in the UK, leading business groups are urging the British government to overhaul the immigration system and introduce new UK visas to enable companies to recruit the highly skilled foreign workers they need. 

 

Overseas travellers have blasted a UK visa system that charges them more than £500 to apply and a further £2.74 to send a follow-up email. Applicants told of their frustration at being asked to pay £531 without an option to check visa appointment availability – meaning that they had no guarantee that they could obtain a visa in line with their planned trips to the UK.

 

Prince Charles has been told to ‘stay out of politics’ by Downing Street after criticising the government’s Rwanda-UK immigration plan. Charles, 73, described a policy that sends asylum seekers to Rwanda as ‘appalling’, sparking a backlash from Tory MPs, who said the comments could present ‘serious constitutional issues when Charles assumes the throne’.

 

In the aftermath of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, Britons have declared UK immigration to be a ‘positive’ thing. According to a new report charting the last 10 years – since the Queen’s last Jubilee in 2012 – Britons have seemingly ‘changed their views’ on immigration.