UK Immigration News

Confusion over UK immigration rules following Brexit is causing problems for EU nationals, campaigners have warned. According to immigrant advocates, European citizens are being asked to provide proof of their settled status in the UK, despite there being six months remaining on the deadline to apply for the EU Settlement Scheme.

 

Changes to the UK immigration system for 2021 mean that EU and non-EU nationals are now subject to the same UK visa and immigration controls. For British businesses employing EU and non-EU nationals using an existing Tier 2 sponsorship licence, the new system has caused some confusion.

 

Hong Kong leader, Carrie Lam, says that Chinese retaliation against Britain’s BNO visa offer is a ‘matter of course’. Lam claims that the UK has violated an agreement with China by expanding immigration to Hong Kong citizens who hold a British National (Overseas) passport.

 

UK Home Secretary, Priti Patel, has been urged to alter UK visa rules for adult dependent relatives by prominent doctors’ organisations.

UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has sparked fury over his failure to understand his own government’s No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) UK immigration policy. Johnson faced a backlash after wrongly suggesting that all migrants blocked from state support are ‘in the UK unlawfully’.

 

Former UK immigration minister Caroline Nokes, who was sacked by Prime Minister Boris Johnson in July 2019, has slammed the Home Office’s ‘inhuman’ approach to immigration. In an exclusive interview with The Independent Ms Nokes, the Conservative MP for Romsey and Southampton North, said that the government will only make things worse.  

Nokes said that further problems are on the horizon that will cost British taxpayers more money.