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| Britain cracks down on immigration |
| 2006-03-08 |
| Britain has unveiled a tougher immigration system that has been modelled on the points-based Australian scheme. The UK's new system will make it easier for highly skilled, younger workers to enter Britain. Latest statistics show more than 200,000 people migrated to the UK in 2004, a 50 per cent increase on the previous year. The new system will make it more difficult for low-skilled workers who are not part of the European Union to enter Britain. The scheme also cuts the qualifying time for permanent residency for those in sought after professions. The thousands of young Australians who travel to the UK for working holidays will not be affected by the changes. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 Via Bros. Judd, they're just moving to Scotland: IMMIGRANTS wishing to settle in Scotland will now have to live here for just two years before being granted residency, after the government halved the qualifying time in an effort to boost the population north of the Border - while making it more difficult to settle in England.... . |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2006-03-08 19:01 |
| #6 Thank goodness. The new immigrants will take jobs as computer programmers, engineers, teachers, and pilots. |
| Posted by: Perfesser 2006-03-08 09:10 |
| #5 You gotta start somewhere. At least the people they let in from now on will be working instead of drawing a welfare check and bitching endlessly. I don't have any stats to back this up, but I would think educated people are a lot less "clanish" and might be integrated a lot more effectively. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-03-08 08:05 |
| #4 Hoo-freakin'-rah. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2006-03-08 04:02 |
| #3 It's a necessary first step. Nothing could have been changed without a radical reorientation of public opinion, and the Cartoonifada uproar seems to be doing that. Much like what is happening Stateside. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-03-08 04:00 |
| #2 It does not a thing about the already radical British born persons of Pakistani parents and other "islamics". A day late and several GBP short. |
| Posted by: SPoD 2006-03-08 01:03 |
| #1 hmmm, about 10 years too late Britain... |
| Posted by: bgrebel 2006-03-08 00:34 |