UK Immigration News

If this legislation goes through, it seems there will be wholly inadequate safeguards when allowing immigration officials and others to "commit crimes" in the interests of the State.  There is an enormous problem with officials making untrue statements in court proceedings.   It is therefore already the

Finally, the immigration health surcharge refund scheme is available as of 1 October 2020.  Please note that the immigration health surcharge increases from £400 per year to £624 per year, for most people, from 27 October 2020.  Fortunately, the start date for the increase has been delayed.  For many people the charge re

An obvious problem is that once you have given something away people become used to it.  The generous gesture of free UK visa extensions is something that migrants now expect.  Many migrants also resent the extremely high Government fees that are charged.  If the visa fees were more reasonable and the U

The Boris Johnson Government has launched a marketing campaign about the new UK visa system.  Unfortunately, the new visa system has been criticised as being unable to fully deal with the skills needs of the UK economy.  It remains very uncertain as to what will happen when there are farm worker and

How many British people or residents actually wish to become care workers? It is difficult enough to find people willing to work in highly paid manual occupations such as in plumbing.  Finding social care workers is more difficult still.

The small increase in non-EU students is good news for universities.  Many people including universities were quite pessimistic about the situation and thought that some universities possibly faced financial disaster.  It is not all good news.