UK Immigration News

Following a recent report published by Workpermit.com, in which the Confederation for British Industry (CBI) urged the government to relax post-Brexit UK immigration rules, respondents to a recent poll carried out by the Express have urged Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, not to ease the rules despite thousands of businesses suffering staff shortages.

 

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has urged the UK government to ease post-Brexit UK immigration rules to help companies facing staff shortages recruit more workers from overseas. The CBI called on the government to ‘immediately update its Shortage Occupation List (SOL)’ to include more jobs that employers find it difficult to hire for.

 

UK Home Secretary, Priti Patel, is expected to introduce new laws that will allow for asylum seekers to be sent abroad for processing from as early as next week. According to reports, Rwanda in Africa is being considered as a possible location for a processing centre. 

 

However, Britain has never before had an offshore UK immigration processing centre, and its not yet been disclosed where any site would be, even though the plans were first revealed in March. 

Women from the EU say that they fear losing their jobs and accommodation because of a UK immigration system computer glitch. According to a report published by The Guardian, many married women who applied for EU settled status in the UK under their married names ‘may struggle to access jobs and housing because of a government computer anomaly’.

 

It’s understood that many EU women have been unable to prove their status to councils and employers because they have been wrongly registered to the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) under their birth names. 

The number of immigrants arriving from the EU between 2012 and 2020 has been underestimated by 1.6 million, according to figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The ONS recently revised its methodology for calculating UK immigration numbers to produce new data that far exceeds previous estimates.

 

The UK high court has reversed a previous tribunal decision that stopped the Home Office from evicting refused asylum seekers from their accommodation. An initial ruling said that refused asylum seekers who are destitute must be given accommodation during the coronavirus pandemic and until all COVID-19 restrictions are lifted.   

However, this ruling has been quashed by a high court judge who has now sent the case back to the UK immigration tribunal to be reconsidered.