UK Immigration News

Oliver Robbins, a senior civil servant responsible for UK immigration policy at the Home Office and oversight of the borders, immigration and citizenship system, has been appointed chief of the newly formed Brexit unit at Whitehall. The new unit will include senior civil servants from the Cabinet Office, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, Foreign Office and the Treasury.

The 23rd of June, 2016 will go down as a landmark moment in British history as the day that Britain decided to exit the European Union after 43 years as a member state. Having joined the European Community in 1973, under Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath, it's with a sense of irony that Britain should quit the EU under a Tory government.

During campaigning in the European Union Referendum there had been rumours that the UK would announce new steps to restrict UK immigration from EU Countries in an attempt to increase support for the remain campaign. At the time Chancellor George Osborne, had denied claims that the government would make an 'eleventh hour' pledge on reducing UK immigration by EU migrants. No such pledge was made. As it happens the leave campaign won and it seems that Britain will leave the EU.

There has been uncertainty about what will happen to EU citizens after the decision by the UK to leave the EU following the EU referendum of 23 June 2016.

Ian Dunt, editor of Politics.co.uk, has launched a scathing attack on Migration Watch UK for falsifying the facts about UK immigration. It's no secret that Migration Watch, which describes itself as an independent, non-political think tank, is anti-immigration. Dunt describes how the group 'contorts the facts about immigrants and uses them as a weapon.' During the EU Referendum campaign misleading reports and statements made by Migration Watch received a great deal of publicity. It made the actual decision by the UK to leave the EU more likely.

Murdered labour MP, Jo Cox, wrote an emotional article supporting UK immigration just days before her death in her West Yorkshire constituency on Thursday, 16 June. In the article, Cox urged voters not to 'fall for the spin' plugged by the Leave campaign that 'Brexit' is the best solution for dealing with UK immigration concerns.