Applicants for UK visas in the Netherlands can now make their applications via the Internet. The new online system, known as "visa4uk", simplifies the process for the British Consulate-General's visa applicants.
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UK voters are going to the polls today, and while we won't know the outcome until early on 6 May, workpermit.com gives you an idea of what each party is offering in terms of immigration.
The Conservative Party is calling for annual refugee and immigrant quotas; bonds for temporary workers; compulsory health checks; offshore asylum processing centres; new border police; and, quitting the UN refugee convention.
The UK Home Office has announced that individuals who have already registered on the Worker Registration Scheme, and have been working in the UK for 12 months can now apply for a residence permit.
The Worker Registration Scheme, which expired earlier this year, was applicable to citizens from the eight Central and Eastern European EU accession countries who wished to come to work in the UK.
Immigrants from new EU countries have boosted Britain's economy and Britons should welcome new immigrants to the UK, the European Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said on 28 April.
Immigration, legal and illegal, has been a key theme for all major political parties in the campaign for the UK election on May 5, with tabloid newspapers playing on fears that the country is being overrun by benefit-seeking foreigners.
Thousands of eastern Europeans headed to the UK last year by plane and coach, seeking a better future since their countries joined the European Union on 1 May. A year on, the BBC takes a look at whether their hopes have been fulfilled.
They have come from the eight former communist states of Poland, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Slovenia.
As immigration has become a hot topic in the UK, here are some key claims and some facts drawn from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the UK Labour Force Survey, and the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance. Compiled by The Scotsman.
CLAIM: Immigration into Britain has risen.