Just look at that:

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Why claim asylum if you could pose as an EU citizen and claim benefits straight away.

The reason why Jamaicans now require a visa to visit the UK has less to do with ordinary Jamaicans and more to do with Jamaican drug barons coming to the UK. The problem is that the visas regime did not help much (but to frustrate ordinary law abiding Jamaicans) as these drug barons have enough mone...

A WP holder cannot work for any other employer other than the one who is named on his WP. The only exception is some moonlighting work outside normal working hours. This is a tricky situation because both you and your new employer (maybe inadvertently) have acted illegaly. Your Leave to Remain / Ent...

John,

Though they mentioned this issue in the White Paper, only very specific points were open for consultation. The 4 to 5 ILR was not among these points.

Let me reiterate again the issue of increasing the ILR period from 4 to 5 years WAS NOT an issue the government has ever consulted about. Unlike other issues, this point was never open for consultation. The governemt also has never made it clear (until this rule was implemented) that it will be appl...

I bet there will be again more harsh measures directed against hardworking tax-paying legal migrants.

Until the UK introduces ID cards it has an inherent identification problem.

olisun wrote: If it was that easy to get an EU passport for £500 then the EU (UK) would have been flooded with loads of illegal immigrants making it difficult even to walk on the road..

It's easy and indeed the roads are flooded.

the HO shows the tame face to the illegal immigrants and shows the tough face to legal immigrants. what a government. It' simple, the illegal immigrants can't take up any highly paid jobs and the locals don't want to do cheap labour... and in the end the illegals have to survive somehow... so... Il...

I think that Clarke (who is now irrelevant) & Mc Nulty have initiated the change to show that they and the Labour party were "tough" on immigration. As they could not really deal with the real problems of illegal migration they have chosen an easy target - the hard working legal migran...

In any case I assume the people concerned will not become very keen labour voters.

I think that in all immigration applications (exc. naturalisation) only main applicants are counted.

The number of people affected is 42,000 * 4 years = 168,000

To this you should add spouses and dependents , I guess there are more than 250,000 affected.

Companies (esp. smaller ones) are not familiar with the nuances between Work Permits, HSMP, Working Holiday etc. For them migrants mean just headache and trouble.

The funny thing is that McNulty who is an MP for Harrow East could not have been elected to parliament without the active support of the Indian population (many of whom are affected by the change of rules) in his constituency.

The Home Office is still fighting the war of yesterday. Asylum seeking is passe. This is why the number of asylum seekers has declined to a negligible trickle. Today illegal migration is based on: 1. Illegal migrants board speed boats and arrive late at night in UK disused seaports and beaches when ...

I think the votes issue is important for this discussion. At the end of the day what matters to politicians is to get re-elected.

if you remember the key issue in the last general election was immigration and you can't really compare the votes of a few thousand immigrants with the votes of the citizens of this country... Do you think the citizens of this country will support WP / HSMP candidates who according to them are a th...

Sooner or later all the people affected by this change will gain the right to vote in this country. I guess all the hundreds of thousands of people affected will remember which political party was behind the change when they cast their votes. I really don't understand why the Labour party is so will...

The staement of changes only deals with issues relating to EEA citizens and their family members.

I guess the same fate could apply to the ILR increase from 4 to 5.

Chess, I mentioned Africa in the example because the situation there is the worst in terms of humanitarian need. In Argentina HIV is quite rare but in some parts of Africa it's quite common and the effect on local population is horrendous. This poor guy does not need to convince me I would grant him...

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RobF, I would also discuss with her the little discussed issue of extending the qualifying period for naturalisation. Under British Nationality Act the qualifying period for naturalisation was 5 years (inc. one year at ILR status). To change an Act of Parliament one needs to introduce a bill which n...

With respect I beg to differ - several tribunal rulings indicate that where Article 3, HRA threshold in so far as 'degrading/inhuman treatment' to include that as a result of inadequate medical care back home, ILR can be granted. If that was indeed the case all HIV patients in Africa would have the...