Migrant Cap On Skilled Immigrants Will Hurt Industry & Care Workers
By Charles Kelly
As more British business leaders continue to lobby the government to rethink plans to cap immigration, as it has started to dawn on many companies that they will not be allowed to hire any non-European staff for the rest of the financial year.
Lady Jo Valentine of London First, a lobby group representing a number of major FTSE 100 companies, described the measures as "economically insane", the Financial Times reported this week.
Top City law firms said several of their biggest blue-chip clients, including large international banks, would be given only a handful of work permits, and in some cases none.
Care industry and care workers hit
A number of care homes clients have complained that their CoS (Certificate of Sponsorship) allocation has been wiped out overnight leaving them unable to hire new overseas worker or renew staff on the old work permits.
Many of my clients holding work permits are now unable to renew their stay and continue working for their employers.
A large number of senior care workers are just short of the qualifying period for indefinite leave to remain due to Home Office errors or because they were caught up in the work permit rule change fiasco in 2007.
Everybody loses
Employers lose skilled workers and struggle to staff their care homes, workers suffer and the country loses hard working people doing the jobs which most resident workers do not want to do.
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360 weddings and a conviction - fake wedding vicar found guilty.
A Sussex seaside town Church of England vicar was found guilty yesterday of taking part in the biggest fake wedding scam Britain has ever seen, the Daily Mail reports.
The UK Border Agency has published further details of a radical new programme of reform to ‘change the face of policing and re-establish the link between the police and the public, tackle organised crime and protect our borders'.
Mr Cameron, who is on a trade mission to India with other senior ministers, including Mr Cable, has said he wants to cut net immigration to levels last seen in the 1990s.
The UK Border Agency has announced new English language tests for non-European migrants applying to come to the UK to join or marry a settled or British partner.
The new body is expected to include a new border police unit, the child exploitation and online protection centre (CEOP) and parts of the National Policing Improvement Agency, which it is thought will be phased out.
The fast-track deportation of foreign nationals refused permission to remain in the UK has been declared unlawful by the High Court, the BBC reports.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron, who won much attention on his recent trip to the United States with his program of savage spending cuts, has also been sharpening his shears on another front: immigration.
UKBA Issue New Guidelines Following Pankina Judgements
The UK Border Agency has issued new policy guidance following the judgments in the cases of Secretary of State for the Home Department v Pankina [2010] EWCA Civ 719.
The guidance affects migrants under all tiers of the points-based system whose applications were refused solely because they failed to meet the maintenance funds requirements, and who unsuccessfully applied for....Full story
The interim limit will be replaced by a permanent limit in April 2011. We are currently holding a consultation on the form that this permanent limit should take.
The UK Border Agency has announced a series of major changes to the Immigration Rules for Tier 4 student visa section of the points-based system.
The UK Border Agency has announced major changes to Tier 4 student visa requirements.
Home Secretary dumps e-borders contract supplier
Raytheon has been dramatically sacked from its lead role overseeing a £750m project to provide the secure border control system for the UK after the British government said it had "no confidence" in the US defence and security company.
An OECD report suggests migrants face stricter controls, lack of opportunities and a reduction in job security, the Guardian reports.
Immigration Minister Damian Green has confirmed plans for a high-profile crackdown on sham marriages and bogus colleges - and promised "radical changes" to the UK Border Agency.
The Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, Keith Vaz MP, said that the coalition government's proposed cap on immigration from non-EU countries is akin to placing "restrictions on friendly countries like India" and cautioned that it might become a major bilateral issue when Prime Minister David Cameron visits New Delhi later this month.
Alison Young of USA TODAY reports that even as a US national nursing shortage looms, many newly graduated registered nurses can't find jobs because the recession has delayed retirement of experienced nurses, regulators and health care associations say.
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International Students Shun Australia For USA & Canada
The US and Canada are competing to attract the international students that Australia is turning away.
Australia has seen its international student population plummet in recent years. The controversy over attacks on Indian students, a shake-up of the immigration policy meaning that many college courses were no longer on the Australian skills list, rumours of capping and ceasing visas and the near collapse of some private vocational colleges have turned students away from Australia. Full story...
UK Government propose graduate tax and wider role for private institutions in higher education
Vince Cable called for a wider role for private institutions in higher education, which could offer to teach such courses, and acknowledged the ‘huge export earnings from overseas students'.
In June, the government announced that the number of skilled workers allowed into the UK from outside the EU would be cut by 1,300.
The Daily Express reports that one in five of Britain's population will be from an ethnic minority by the middle of the century, a new report forecasts this week.
The Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy (FSBPT) has announced that it immediately has suspended National Physical Therapy Examination (NPTE) testing for all graduates of schools located in Egypt, India, Pakistan and the Philippines.
Abdi and Sayruq Nur, who fled war town Somalia, had been unhappy that their previous home - also paid for by housing benefit - was not convenient for shopping and meant their children had to get the bus to school.
Russian spy femme fatale Anna Chapman will be stripped of her British citizenship on the grounds that her marriage to a British citizen was a ‘sham'.
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