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UK Visas and Immigration appoints new director general

0:15 08/03/2020
Sanwar Ali comment: Plenty of people will be watching to see if there will be much of a difference under a new director general. Will the culture of not admitting mistakes and instead covering things...

UK Visas and Immigration director general quits

0:21 25/02/2020
Sanwar Ali comment: There have been claims that Mark Thomson the director general of UK Visas and Immigration and HM Passport Office resigned due to Home Secretary Priti Patel. Finding out the truth...

Army may replace UK immigration staff in event of general strike

10:32 12/09/2012
Yesterday, the Trades Union Congress, an annual gathering of UK Trades Unions voted to explore the practicalities of a general strike to protest at the ongoing cuts being imposed by the UK's...

UK immigration insider predicts more queues at Heathrow

16:55 10/09/2012
An insider at the UK Border Force has told The Daily Star newspaper that long delays are likely at Heathrow Airport from the beginning of October 2012. During the Olympics and Paralympics, extra...

UK immigration staff call off Olympic Strike…for now

19:19 30/07/2012
The planned 24-hour strike by UK immigration staff, which had been called for Thursday 26th July, the eve of the London Olympic Games, was called off on Wednesday by the Public and Commercial...

UK Government denies plans to recruit 1,100 immigration staff

10:44 30/07/2012
The United Kingdom's Immigration Minister, Damian Green, has denied that the government intends to recruit 1,100 new staff in its immigration and passport service, as claimed by Mark Serwotka, the...

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