UK Immigration News

The UK Border Agency (UKBA) has announced that there may be delays and disruption to services for immigrants and those travelling on Monday 8 March and Tuesday 9 March. This is due to strike action by the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS).

Lin Homer Chief Executive of the UKBA has said that plans are in place to minimise potential disruption. Lin Homer had the following to say:

As mentioned in previous news reports UK immigration are substantially increasing Government fees in many cases. Some fees for dependent relative applications will double or triple in price.

In a report by UK Immigration it was announced that the new requirements for UK Tier 4 student visa applications came into effect on 3 March 2010.

The new requirements are as follows:

UK immigration will be sharing more data and intelligence with overseas Governments in source immigration Countries to prevent illegal immigration. "The international action plan" by the Home Office and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office will according to the government lead to more effective action abroad against human traffickers, forgers and foreign criminals.

If you currently have a Masters degree and meet the requirements for the UK Tier 1 visa it may be worth applying now. UK Immigration will probably be making significant changes to the requirements for the UK Tier 1 visa very soon.

It is likely that in future visitors and immigrants in the UK will be refused permission to enter or stay in the UK if they owe money to the National Health Service (NHS) above a certain amount. This is to prevent migrants from using and then not paying for NHS healthcare services.