Immigration news

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

Joe Biden’s US immigration plans have received backing from Google, which has pledged $250,000 to help undocumented ‘Dreamers’ settle in the United States. The multinational tech giant will donate the money to United We Dream, an organization that assists immigrants living illegally in the US with finding work and avoiding deportation.  

In 2020 Google, along with other big name businesses such as Apple and Amazon, slammed outgoing President Donald Trump for banning US work visas – describing the move as ‘unbelievably bad policy’.

Following Tony Pham’s short tenure as the acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), his successor has quit after just two weeks in the role. ICE press secretary, Jenny Burke, confirmed Jonathan Fahey’s resignation with The Hill news site but gave no explanation for his leaving.

 

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’.

 

Proposals to increase US immigration filing fees, announced by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) last summer, have been scrapped. Following a lawsuit, the new fees were temporarily blocked just days before they were set to go into effect on October 2, 2020.

 

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.