UK Immigration News

The UK's Prime Minister, David Cameron MP, has hinted that his government may introduce measures to limit the level of EU immigration into the UK. The UK Home Secretary Theresa May MP has told a British newspaper that the government will hold a review of EU immigrationWhen it came to power in 2010, the UK's coalition government, which is led by Mr Cameron, committed itself to cutting the net annual immigration figure from around 260,000, as it was then, to 'tens of thousands' annually by the time of the next general election in 2015.

The National Union of Students has called for an end to the requirement for students to register with police before they begin their courses. It is the start of the academic year in the UK and the new intake of students who have come from outside the European Economic Area are required to register with the police before they are allowed to start their courses. All students in London are required to register at;The Overseas Visitors Registration Office Brandon House180 Borough High StreetLondonSE1 1LH

A senior member of the Boarding Schools Association has sent a letter to Mark Harper the immigration minister to say that the government should remove international pupils at boarding schools in the UK from the net immigration figures. John Newton, the headmaster of Taunton School, an independent school in Somerset, wrote to Mr Harper saying that he should 'consider most seriously and urgently removing from the student immigration figures those international students coming to attend our member schools'.

The United Kingdom Border Agency (UKBA) has issued guidance for students from outside the European Economic Area who are students at London Metropolitan University (LMU). On 29th August 2012, the UKBA revoked LMU's highly Trusted Sponsor status which allowed it to sponsor students from outside the European Economic Area to obtain tier 4 student visas.

The United Kingdom Border Agency's National Allegations Database (NAD) went live on Sunday 30th September 2012. The UKBA says that it will help it to track down illegal immigrants. The NAD will contain details of all immigration cases. Each case, for the first time, will be given a unique case number. Until now, files were held locally and were often not computerised.

The UK's Home Office is to appeal against a decision of the Information Commissioner which requires it to disclose an 'immigration blacklist' of 44 countries to an immigration rights campaigner. Citizens of countries on the list face extra immigration checks and are required to provide more evidence in support of visa applications because of higher levels of immigration fraud among applications from those countries.