Paulsmith wrote:Salimnina, how old are your children? Were they born in the UK? you might can benefit from the 7 year child concession(I don't know much about this concession but somebody else can give you more information).
Called DP5/96, the policy documents are available on the BIA website.
These people can't be sent back practically because the HO hasn't got the resources to remove the majority of 450.000 people. Jeff, what you think is right theoretically but not practically in my opinion.
This is the correct statistics, Paul. However, bearing in mind that the UK is such a popular destination for immigrants, the Government will almost certainly stand firm on the practicality of this operation and will not give in by introducing any amnesties. The only way to handle this in my opinion, would be a regularisation programme, such as "earned regularisation", which would only allow certain categories of irregular migrants to gain legal status. But the author will fall out of this because of his deliberate breaches of the law, i.e. poor immigration history.
I am sure there are ways of locating many of the irregular migrants using various ways - linking NIN to immigration records, linking local council records to immigration, requiring the landlords to check the status of tenants and introducing some register for landlords on the council records, linking NHS records to the Home Office. It is all feasible and can be arranged easily. In Australia, for example, this system works perfectly well. All the government and local government records are shared. There is almost 100% compliance with the immigration law here and you cannot get health service, bank account, tax file number, driving license, tenancy without a legal immigration status - if you become irregular, everyone will know about this and you are located in minutes.
If the UK Government had not allowed the major blunders and incompetence in the immigration control at the end of 90s and beginning of 2000, they would have never had the problem with so many irregular migrants in the first place.
To remove somebody what the caseworker has to do is only issue a ISI151 and his work is complete, but the challenging part is when they need to detain the claimant, arrange flight, arrange travel documents etc.
Yes, again, it works very well in many other countries. Why should the UK be different?
"The Home Office will treat a legacy case as closed if they cannot contact the individual, but they will first make what they consider to be reasonable efforts to make contact".
But this is not impossible. There must be at least one or two ways of locating them. Doctor's records, NHS records, council records.
