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UK Visa and Immigration Right to Rent Rules Discriminate

21:51 05/10/2018
Amid plans to force landlords to check the UK visa and immigration status of prospective tenants, the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) fears that non-UK nationals face ‘serious...

UK minister says meeting immigration target will be 'difficult'

14:13 16/06/2014
Theresa May, the UK's Home Secretary, has told the BBC that it will be difficult to meet the government's target of reducing annual net immigration to below 100,000 by May 2015 but has said that she...

UK announces £6m plan to help immigrants learn English

19:07 15/11/2013
The UK's Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has announced a controversial new scheme aimed at helping immigrants with little or no English to improve their language skills. Research has shown that...

UK government to back down on plans to make landlords police immigration

13:38 14/06/2013
The UK government has backtracked on a major policy initiative designed to combat illegal immigration. In March, the UK's prime minister, David Cameron, announced that all landlords were to be...

UK minister says Romanian UK Immigration estimates are 'meaningless'

11:24 26/03/2013
Eric Pickles, the UK's Communities Minister, has revealed that a UK government report estimates that 12,700 Romanians and Bulgarians will settle in the UK in 2014. Speaking on 18th March 2013, Mr...

COMMENT – UK's EU dilemma over Romanian/Bulgarian immigration estimates

16:31 07/03/2013
By Alex Owen The UK government has got itself into trouble over immigration figures again. The UK press has been asking government ministers for an estimated figure of the number of Romanians and...

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