UK Immigration News

Some employer's organisations in Britain are broadly welcoming proposals by the Home Office this week to restrict access for Bulgarian and Romanian workers. However, they have expressed concern that companies would be expected to police "who is and who is not a legal worker."

John Reid, the UK Home Secretary, is expected to announce measures this week to restrict immigration from Romania and Bulgaria when they join the current European Union States to form the EU-27 on 01 January 2007.

Part of the United Kingdoms SBS programe is closed immediately because all the available visas have been given. Other parts of the scheme are still open. This means that the number of people eligible to come under the SBS work permit scheme has been reduced even further.

Announcement from the UK Home Office :

Key points of a planned speech by the Tory leader, David Cameron, stress the importance and value of immigration to the British economy and its people. Likely to enrage anti-immigration campaigners, the basic message is that the recent flood of new workers into Britain is a "good thing" and that skilled immigrants actually "create more employment."

The 24-year-old daughter of a Scottish mother and Palestinian father, Rima, was born and brought up in the bustling southern Spanish city of Valencia.

It was a pedigree, which spawned empathy with Valencia's large population of immigrants, many fleeing the poverty of Africa and Spain's former South American colonies.

Europe's first dedicated centre for victims of people-trafficking is opened last week in Sheffield, England. The Human Trafficking Centre will aim to provide specialist care for the victims - mostly women brought from abroad and forced into prostitution.