UK Immigration News

A special inquiry is investigating the UK government funded English courses for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), to find why it is struggling to deliver effective courses for immigrants to the UK.

The inquiry led by the National Institute for Adult Continuing Education (NIACE), will try and determine why the system is not coping with a huge increase in demand, a continuing teacher shortage and qualifications that do not match learners' needs.

German builders are heading to the UK to find work as the German construction industry is suffering. It is a reversal of the British building trade in the 1980's and 1990's, when many Britons did manual labour jobs on German building sites in the those two decades

A construction industry boom in England and the forthcoming bulding projects for the 2012 Olympic Games to be held in London, are enticing the German builders away from their own labour market.

A study by IBM reveals the city of London will become a magnet for talent from the US and Eastern Europe as it cements its reputation as the cosmopolitan capital of commerce.

The trend will emerge by 2015 as restrictive regulations in the US drive companies and executives to London, while the UK's hedge funds draw skilled mathematicians and actuaries from Eastern Europe.

workpermit.com would like to remind future candidates for the Science and Engineering Graduates Scheme (SEGS) that changes announced by the UK Home Office March 30, will take affect May 1.

The SEGS has been broadened following the Chancellor's Pre Budget Report, and the UK Trade Secretary Patricia Hewitt's five year plan to increase foreign scientific research in Britain.

Changes to marriage laws introduced by the UK Home Office have been overturned by Mr Justice Silber, sitting at the High Court in London. The judge declared the rules were incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.

The marriage laws were introduced to clamp down on "marriages of convenience" to get around immigration controls and require immigrants to obtain a special certificate of approval, or COA before they can wed in the UK.

During the debated topic of free movement of workers in the European Parliament, Gary Titley Member of the European Parliament urged Europe to follow in Britain's footsteps and allow the migratory movement of foreign workers.

"European labour markets should be open like the UK's. We were right to take the bold step of opening up our labour market, and Europe should not fear tides of immigration," said Titley.