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On 18 June 2007, the Home Office released 'Managing Global Migration', a report outlining the United Kingdom's plans to manage migration to the country in the future. The plan includes strengthening borders, enforcing immigration laws, and fast tracking asylum decisions. The government also plans to boost the UK economy by attracting highly skilled migrants and making the country easy to visit legally.

In a letter addressed to Immigration Minister Liam Byrne, shadow Immigration Minister Damian Green asked the UK government to suspend changes to the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme (HSMP).

The High Court of the United Kingdom will conduct a judicial review on the 14th and 15th of June regarding controversial changes to the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme (HSMP) implemented last December.

A new report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation studies the lives of migrants into the United Kingdom from Central and Eastern Europe before and after the European Union expansion in 2004. The UK was one of the few nations in the EU to fully open its labor market to the eight new member nations.

Asylum applications to the United Kingdom for the first quarter of 2007 are down 10% from the same quarter of the previous year. 5,680 applications have been lodged so far this year, with the top nationalities being Afghan (755), Iranian (600) and Chinese (480).