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Details of the UK visa status of immigrant NHS patients will stop being passed to the Home Office, after a controversial agreement was scrapped. Campaigners, The Migrants’ Rights Network and Liberty, said a recent legal challenge to end the contentious agreement between the NHS and the Home Office was a success.
According to official figures, the number of UK work visas issued in the last year was the highest since 2009. There has been an increase in demand from employers with a Tier 2 Sponsor Licence. This has been largely attributed to a 7% rise in Tier 2 visas granted to skilled workers, of which 55% were issued to Indian nationals.
Amid US president, Donald Trump’s anti-immigration rhetoric, which has seen him attempt to impose a Muslim-ban, demand the building of a wall along the US-Mexico border, tear immigrant families apart by separating parents from children, and more, a historian has discovered a royal decree banishing his grandfather, Frederick Trump (born Friedrich Trumf) from Germany. It should also be noted that Donald Trump’s father is also called Frederick Trump usually abbreviated to “Fred Trump”.
The company behind foul-mouthed party game, Cards Against Humanity, have bought part of the US border in an effort to stop Trump building a wall. The US president has recently reignited his demand for US taxpayer funding to build a wall at the US-Mexico border to keep out illegal US visa migrants.
A recent Home Office decision to revoke a company’s Tier 2 Sponsorship Licence for apparent incorrect use of four Tier 2 Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) has been upheld by the High Court. Liral Veget Training and Recruitment Ltd lost its licence after the Home Office said that the job descriptions and skill levels of four migrant workers on Tier 2 visas they were sponsoring were not at a high enough level.
According to a new investigation, the computer network of a company that processes UK visa applications in Moscow, may have been hacked by Russian intelligence operatives. Investigative website, Bellingcat, plus Russian news portal, The Insider both claim to have interviewed the former chief technical officer of the UK visa processing company.