Immigration news

The number of migrant workers arriving in the UK from India could increase after a trade deal was agreed between the two countries, according to a Personnel Today report. The UK’s international business secretary, Liz Truss and India’s minister of commerce and industry, Piyush Goyal, signed an Enhanced Trade Partnership (ETP) recently.

 

Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, has described Biden administration plans to ban US domestic travel as ‘contradictory’ to recent US immigration executive orders. The 46th US President recently lifted the Muslim travel ban imposed by Trump, allowing citizens of several Muslim-majority nations to travel to the US, but is reportedly planning a domestic travel ban.

 

UK immigration border staff have blasted Home Office plans to reintroduce fingerprinting by force on asylum seekers arriving on British shores from the Channel. A similar measure was scrapped in 2012 after sparking violence against Border Force agents and self-harm among asylum seekers who slashed their own fingerprints to avoid them being recorded.

 

UK Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, the Right Honourable Robert Buckland QC, has blasted UK immigration lawyers who ‘deliberately delay’ immigration cases by filing last-minute human rights claims. During an interview with the Daily Mail, Buckland accused immigration lawyers of ‘taking the British public for a ride.’

 

Buckland referred to a number of instances where immigration lawyers lodged legal challenges, including a controversial deportation flight set to return several criminals to Jamaica in December 2020.

According to Canadian news publication Globe and Mail, the US immigration documentation of immigrants leaving China for the United States is potentially under surveillance by Beijing. The news outlet in Canada claims that Chinese police own a company that gathers data on people applying for visas for several countries, including the United States.

 

According to the Immigration Services Union (ISU), which represents many of the Home Office’s UK immigration border staff have not been briefed on how a new hotel quarantine system, expected to begin today, will work. The new hotel quarantine system is being introduced to protect the UK from new COVID-19 variants.