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UK's Office of Budget Responsibility calls for increase in immigration
London: Projections by The United Kingdom's Office of Budget Responsibility (The OBR) have shown that higher immigration levels would reduce pressure on public spending levels and encourage growth in the British economy. An OBR statement read 'higher net migration, close to levels that we have seen in recent years, would put downward pressure on borrowing and public sector net debt, as immigrants are more likely to be of working age than the population in general.' The

Date:26-08-2012More »

Computer database to track down 150,000 illegal immigrants in Britain
London: An immigration computer database is being set up to track down the 150,000 people who are staying in Britain illegally. Border chiefs are due to launch the project next month to deal with the huge backlog of foreign nationals who have overstayed their student or temporary work

Date:22-08-2012More »

UK manufacturing firms need thousands of skilled candidates
London: A report, published by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (the UKCES), claims that a fifth of job vacancies in manufacturing firms in the midlands and the north west of England remain unfilled because of a lack of suitable candidates. The UKCES canvassed opinion from 7

Date:19-08-2012More »

Asking prices slashing at fastest rate, it may cut an average of £19,000
London: The number of homes that have had their original asking price chopped has reached a nine-month high, research has found, as sellers looked to combat a lack of interest from the wet summer and the distraction of the Olympic Games. Research from property website zoopla.co.uk foun

Date:16-08-2012More »

What is in their heads; UKBA cut 457 workers, now recruiting them again
London : Border chiefs have started a recruitment drive... after spending £42million laying off staff. The huge sum of taxpayers’ cash went on “early exit” payments to 457 workers made redundant as part of swingeing Government cuts. But after the recent

Date:01-08-2012More »

Hit-squads set to step in if UK border staff strike on Heathrow's busiest day
London: Military police, Whitehall officials and retired border staff are on standby to prevent Olympic chaos this week as militant union leaders prepare a 24-hour walkout. Ministers yesterday discussed detailed contingency plans to contend with industrial action planned for Thursday b

Date:24-07-2012More »

2.33m EU migrants are living in Britain: But the allegations are again against non EU citizens
London: Britain is home to 2.33million immigrants from other EU countries, more than almost anywhere else in Europe. Only Spain and Germany are home to more, the research found.The estimates suggest that just under a third of all immigrants living in Britain have come from other EU countries.

Date:12-07-2012More »

Australian government loweres current pass mark for their SkillSelect program
Melbourne: Australian government has lowered the current pass mark for their SkillSelect program. Australian immigration announced last month that the pass mark to qualify for EOI - SkillSelect would be lowered to 60 points from 1 July 2012. Previously, applicants needed a points score of 65 p

Date:07-07-2012More »

U K Immigration Rules to be changed from 6 April

London:  U K Immigration Rules will be changed from 6 April 2012. Some of the changes to Tier 2 will affect those who were granted leave after 6 April 2011. The changes include: Migrants under the points-based system Tier 1 - high-value migrants     Closing the Tier 1 (Post-study work) route.     Introducing the new Tier 1 (Graduate entrepreneur) route.     Introducing new pr

Secret EU deal forces Britain to take in 12,000 Indian workers

London: Brussels has drawn up a secret diktat which could force Britain to admit 12,000 workers from India despite soaring unemployment at home. The order is part of an EU-wide plan to boost trade with India. EU officials say that, in return for opening up the jobs market, countries such as Britain will be helped to land lucrative export deals. But, of 40,000 workers who will be allowed to live and work in Europe, Britain has been told it must take 12,000, according

Britain recieves in 593,000 immigrants in a year

London: Britain's population soared by a quarter of a million in just 12 months thanks to immigration, official figures revealed yesterday. Net migration – the number of people coming to live in Britain for more than a year minus those who moved abroad – stood at 250,000 in the year to June 2011. The figure has shot up from 235,000 for the year to June 2010, just after the Coalition came to power. The data, which shatters the Government’s promi

Vicar raked in £30,000 by conducting 250 sham marriages for illegal immigrants

London:A parish vicar who conducted hundreds of sham marriages to help illegal immigrants stay in Britain faces up to 14 years in jail. The Rev Brian Shipsides charged £140 a time for the bogus ceremonies which were so popular couples queued up outside his church. The racket earned the 55-year-old churchman at least £30,000 in undeclared income.Rev Brian Shipsides is facing prison over his involvement in 250 sham marriages Fixer Amudalat Ladipo, an illeg

500,000 people entered UK without border checks in last five years

London: Over 500,000 people were allowed to enter Britain without adequate checks in the last five years, an official investigation has revealed. John Vine, the independent inspector of the UK Border Agency, found that immigration staff at times acted potentially illegally by relaxing the supervision of travellers entering this country at least 15,000 times during 2007 to 2011. Vine said that ministers, senior officials and border staff must all share the blame for potentia

Number of British-born unemployed soared

London: Around 580 foreigners landed a job in the UK every day last year while the number of British-born workers collapsed, official figures revealed.The Office for National Statistics said the number of British-born workers with a job crashed by 208,000 last year. But this is the exact opposite of what is happening to foreign-born workers, with numbers jumping by 212,000 last year. Figures also revealed that women bore the brunt of the latest rise in unemployment