Immigration news

Official figures obtained via a Freedom of Information request submitted by the Daily Express show that the UK is currently spending over £700,000 a day on feeding and sheltering asylum seekers.

With net migration at its highest in 10 years, and with border control struggling to process more than three asylum applications per hour, the true cost of those receiving benefits as they await an outcome on their case has been revealed.

New immigration checks starting on April 8th may cause queues stretching five miles back, ferry companies at Dover have warned. For anyone who is struggling to imagine a five mile queue it is roughly 650 cars.

The expected chaos at ferry port terminals is due to new immigration checks for every person leaving Britain, part of a pledge by David Cameron in the 2010 Conservative manifesto to check every passenger coming into and leaving the country.

With the UK general election under two months away, all the major political parties have been promoting their manifestos; This includes various election pledges. One of the hottest pre-election topics, alongside the NHS and housing crisis, is immigration.

Texas judge, Andrew Hanen, the man responsible for placing an embargo on plans to protect some undocumented migrants from deportation, said on 9 March 2015 that the matter will not be looked at again until at least 19 March. The Obama administration had requested an emergency stay of the injunction on 23 February 2015.

Good news for some. US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will permit H-4 spouses of certain H-1B principal non-immigrants to receive employment authorization in the US from 26 May 2015. The change is to help spouses of H-1B visa holders who are in the process of obtaining a Green Card and who already have an approved immigrant worker petition.

The H-1B visa is to employ overseas nationals in a specialist occupation; usually highly-skilled individuals with at least a bachelors degree (or equivalent) employed in a role that usually requires you to have a bachelor's degree.

Speaking in Margate at the anti-immigration/anti-EU UKIP's spring conference, Nigel Farage said that the UK should have an Australian-style points system to determine who can settle in the country. Perhaps a bit of an odd remark to make as the UK has had a points based system since 2008.