UK Closed Student Visa National Consultation

The public consultation on the UK student visa system closed and responses are being considered carefully before final decision, according to UK Immigration Minister Damian Green in his speech to the think tank Reform last week.

The consultation lasted 8 weeks. The Home Office received about 30,000 responses from organisations and individuals, and it will review those responses before finalising its proposals on immigration reform.

Minister Green stated that there will be stricter control of non-EU migrants under Tier 4 Student Visa to get rid of abuses from the system. This move is believed to be for the best interest of legitimate students those who have important contribution to UK economy and cultural life.

He also emphasized that the Home Office and the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills will work closely to finalize the government’s proposals and their conclusion will be announced soon.

UK student immigration will be put in a strong framework which requires education providers to tighten and improve their selection and recruitment procedures.“This will generate public confidence in the immigration system and ultimately will be good for all the legitimate international students who are welcome to study here,” said Minister Green.

The public consultation on the UK student visa system closed and responses are being considered carefully before final decision, according to UK Immigration Minister Damian Green in his speech to the think tank Reform last week.

The consultation lasted 8 weeks. The Home Office received about 30,000 responses from organisations and individuals, and it will review those responses before finalising its proposals on immigration reform.

Minister Green stated that there will be stricter control of non-EU migrants under Tier 4 Student Visa to get rid of abuses from the system. This move is believed to be for the best interest of legitimate students those who have important contribution to UK economy and cultural life.

He also emphasized that the Home Office and the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills will work closely to finalize the government’s proposals and their conclusion will be announced soon.

UK student immigration will be put in a strong framework which requires education providers to tighten and improve their selection and recruitment procedures.“This will generate public confidence in the immigration system and ultimately will be good for all the legitimate international students who are welcome to study here,” said Minister Green.

UK Immigration Law in Marrying a British Citizen

More and more people today are wishing to marry a British citizen. With this, it is essential to know some UK immigration law about this type of marriage. There is such a requirement to follow for anyone who plans to marry a British national. It is then possible for a United Kingdom immigrant to come to the United Kingdom and marry a British if she is at least 18 years old, a wife, a civil partner or a fiancée.

According to the UK Immigration Law conditions, any UK resident may bring only one person to live with the British citizen. Actually there are certain rules that you have to be aware of and requirements to accomplish before you marry or tie a knot for someone. Primarily, you have to consider obtaining an entry clearance to join a British citizen and process immigration to UK and live in the UK. You can acquire the entry clearance through any consular offices or embassies in your country. As stated on the UK immigration law, before you can marry or engage into a civil partnership, you must comply with the requirements and must accomplish them completely.

The requirements set by the UK immigration law for marrying a British Citizen states that the person must live with the British citizen for the rest of his/her life in the UK; he must be over the age of eighteen and should be able to provide proof for it, the person and the British resident must be financially autonomous to purchase or occupy a house and must not resort to the public funds.

Accordingly, the UK immigration law states that you will be granted a permission to find work in the UK to financially help your wife or husband for a period of two years if a UK resident or a British citizen brings you to the UK. The wife, civil partner or husband of the UK resident or British citizen may be eligible to apply for a permanent UK residency. The wife, husband or the civil partner will automatically be granted a permanent United Kingdom residency the moment they enter UK and settle there forever if the couples had lived for more than four years. Furthermore, under the UK immigration law, marrying a British citizen would also require a certificate of approval which is having a fee of two hundred ninety five.

Indian Mbas Serve as Waiters in UK

A young Indian immigrant, Sultana from Hyderabad, she has masters in business administration from a British university, is working as a waitress. ”Unfortunately, I’m not getting the chance I was expecting.

That’s why I’m here in a fast food restaurant,” she said in a radio programme on Sunday. She added, ”Most of my friends work in fast food restaurants because they’re not getting (what) they deserve for what they studied.” Others are employed as night-time security staff.

With UK barely out of a crippling recession and with unemployment nearing 2.5 million, good jobs are hard to come by. A tough-talking home office minister, Damian Green, said, ”Those coming into the UK under the highly skilled migrant route should only be able to do highly skilled jobs. It should not be used as a means to enter the low skilled jobs market.” He went on, ”While it’s important that low-skilled jobs are filled, there are hundreds of thousands of British people who could be doing them instead of a migrant.”

Such workers are categorized as Tier-1 immigrants under a points-based system started in 2008 by the previous Labour party government. This was tailored to attract ”the brightest and best”. Indians who graduate or complete post-graduate studies in a British university also fall into the Tier-1 classification and are permitted to remain in the UK for up to two years to acquire professional experience.

But there is a hint that the system introduced by Labour could be altered. It will also form the foundation of an immigration cap to be imposed by the present Conservative party and Liberal Democrat coalition administration effective from April 2011; and which is expected to be announced soon.

There are wider concerns among UK authorities that the Tier-1 post study work route is being exploited by some migrants who provide bogus qualifications to obtain visas. However, the Left-oriented Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) said,”Damian Green is on shaky ground in implying that highly skilled migrants coming to the UK under Tier-1 are entering the low skilled job market in significant numbers over a sustained time period.” It further said, ”It looks very much like an attempt to justify a drastic reduction in Tier-1 visa numbers under the proposed cap.” It could undermine Britain’s economic recovery, it warned.