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France will grant residency permits to roughly 6,000 illegal immigrants but expel more than twice as many under controversial new immigration rules, its interior minister said in an interview published on Monday.
Persons should be aware that due to the situation in Lebanon and Israel, the visa section of the British High Commission in Nicosia, Cyprus is closed, effective 20 July 2006. Applications for visas may be made at any British mission overseas with a visa section. No announcement predicting when normal service will be resumed has been made.
The move will prompt renewed claims that John Reid is adopting a hard-line approach to law and order and immigration issues. Home Office sources have confirmed that Reid plans to double the amount spent on immigration control to £180m in order to cut the number of unfounded asylum claims and illegal immigrants. The uniformed force, which will not be established as a new agency, will be tasked with tackling those who seek to enter the UK - but will prompt criticism from asylum groups.
The aim of the Government's reform plan is to make the Home Office more efficient. It is hoped that the following changes will result in savings of as much as £115m per year by 2010:
The European Union Labour Force Survey has released its fourth quarter report for 2005 on employment statistics for the EU-25 and region. After a stagnant period during 2001 and 2002, the EU has seen a steady increase in total employment through the end of 2005, at 64.0% of the working age population. This is a slight increase compared with 63.6% in the fourth quarter of 2004 and just over 62.6% at the beginnin
The Home Secretary announced the Statement of Changes to the Immigration Rules to the British Parliament on 19 July 2006 which came into effect on 20 July 2006. The Immigration Act 1971 is immediately amended. The document is "Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules HC 1337 - July 2006" in the House of Commons.
Paragraphs 364, 367, and 395c are affected. Paragraph 364 is replaced in its entirety, while 367 and 395c have words, phrases and sentences replaced.