UK Immigration News

On 11 June 2012 the UK government announced major changes to the Immigration Rules for non-European Economic Area (non-EEA) nationals applying to enter or remain in the UK under the family migration route. Most of these changes will apply to new applicants from 9 July 2012.The changes, part of the Government's response to recommendations made by the Migration Advisory Committee, include:

India's Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai met with his UK counterpart, Simon Fraser, last week asking for the UK to ease visa requirements for businessmen, entrepreneurs, and students. Foreign Secretaries, are senior Government ministers dealing with foreign affairs; Known in most Countries as Foreign Ministers.

UK immigration's plans to continue including foreign students in the net migration numbers has a "terrible" effect on the Norfolk and Norwich economy, the University of East Anglia (UEA) has said.Edward Acton, vice-chancellor of the UEA, said the university's 2011 group of non-EU students will be worth £35.6m over the duration of their courses in tuition fees. He claimed that a reduction in numbers would leave the Norwich university a "much-diminished enterprise" and would significantly impact the city as well.

The British High Commission has announced that visa applications from Jamaicans wishing to visit the UK this year are up over 30 percent compared to the same period last year.The British High Commission processes around of 11,000 visa applications per year in Jamaica.

As the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations take place this week, we thought that now was a good time to take a look at the UK's immigration history over the past 60 years. The country has changed dramatically since Queen Elizabeth was crowned in 1952. Over sixty years there have been substantial changes in immigration policy. Despite tighter immigration controls over the last sixty years hundreds of thousands more immigrants have moved to the UK.

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