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22 Mar 13
Nick Clegg announces UK visa 'security bonds'
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said visitors from 'high risk' countries will be required to put up 'security bonds' with their UK visa applications which will be repayable when they leave the UK.
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20 Mar 13
'No one knows' UK immigration numbers admits minister
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has said 'nobody really knows' how many people will move to the UK when European Union restrictions are relaxed at the end of the year.
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15 Mar 13
Theresa May halts UK visa plans for Brazilian tourists
The Home Secretary Theresa May has reportedly shelved plans to introduce UK visa requirements for Brazilian tourists.
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11 Mar 13
Harrods boss slams UK visa priorities
The head of Harrods department store has accused British politicians of playing 'political football' with UK immigration issues while neglecting the economic opportunity of allowing more tourists to visit the UK.
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06 Mar 13
Iain Duncan Smith warns of UK immigration 'crisis'
The Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has said Britain faces a 'crisis' if measures designed to limit UK immigration from Romania and Bulgaria are not introduced.
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05 Mar 13
Clegg to head cabinet committee on UK immigration
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will chair a committee of cabinet members to look at ways of discouraging Romanian and Bulgarian migrants from coming to the UK when both countries accede to the European Union next year.
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04 Mar 13
MPs to launch UK immigration inquiry
MPs are to launch an inquiry into the impact on UK immigration rates of potentially thousands of Romanians and Bulgarians moving to Britain when restrictions are lifted at the end of the year.
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01 Mar 13
Minister welcomes UK immigration fall
After the latest round of UK immigration figures were released yesterday, Immigration Minister Mark Harper has welcomed the drop and confirmed the Government is on track to reduce net migration to the 'tens of thousands' by the next election.
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28 Feb 13
BBC criticised over UK immigration debate
Founders of Migration Matters, a bipartisan organisation lobbying for an 'open and honest debate' on UK immigration, has written to the BBC to complain about its portrayal of Migration Watch UK.
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28 Feb 13
UK immigration figures continue to fall
The latest release from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) has confirmed that net UK immigration has further fallen to 163,000 in the year to June 2012.
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27 Feb 13
Government refuses to budge on UK immigration figures and international students
Despite just returning from a trip to India during which Prime Minister David Cameron urged more Indian students to study in the UK, his Government has confirmed they will not be removing international students from UK immigration figures.
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