New Immigration Law in the UK Aims to Restrict Migrants

Apr 1
11:08

2015

gloria john

gloria john

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The present political parties and the citizens are very vocal and hostile towards refugees and migrants flooding into England and settling down here. The reasons could be many, some of them are genuine concerns and some are politically created. The pressure from the citizen’s side has been building up on the government to amend immigration policies and to increase the filtering and tighten the procedure. This way the inflow of the immigrants into the country will be reduced.

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The present political parties and the citizens are very vocal and hostile towards refugees and migrants flooding into England and settling down here. The reasons could be many,New Immigration Law in the UK Aims to Restrict Migrants  Articles some of them are genuine concerns and some are politically created. The pressure from the citizen’s side has been building up on the government to amend immigration policies and to increase the filtering and tighten the procedure. This way the inflow of the immigrants into the country will be reduced.

The citizens and political parties feel that the economy is getting affected because of the immigrants. The tax payers have to bear the cost of well-being of everyone else including the non-tax payers. Also the facilities of the government are available for everyone but the people who need to pay for them are the tax payers. Citizens also accuse the immigrants or the people who come to UK in search of job and better life that they are robbing away all the good opportunities in the industry. The citizens have the first right over them, but because of the skilled immigrants, the good jobs are all going to them. If this practice continues then that day is not far away when immigrants will be ruling over the native people and the locals will have to work like slaves under them.

Immigration lawyers London have seen good number of amendments in the present immigration law and new terms and conditions being added. All this is done by the present government to show their support to the public opinion about immigrants and also to stay popular with the voters. The lawyers agree that as a result of these changes, the country has seen reduced number of immigrant coming in. There are positive and negative effects of this.

One of the visa categories that has regular applicants and usually a big number of people coming in to the country is the student visa. But the new tightened law is not favorable for the students aspiring to come to various universities of UK and do their specialization. The country has seen a drop in the number of application by students around the world. Immigration solicitors London also express that the education institutions and universities have been asked to get license to invite foreign students to come and study. This sponsorship means the organisations will have greater responsibility. This even they are being selective in whom they want to sponsor.

The other area where the visa applicants have been very badly hit is the family visa section. The renewed immigration law has increase the minimum income limit of the UK resident to 18.600 pounds if he or she wishes to bring their spouse, children, parents or any other family members to UK to stay with them. The resident has to either have more income or show minimum this amount of savings to support a family member migrating to UK. In case of more than one person is immigrating, then they income limit will accordingly increase. This is highly criticised by immigrants and many families are forced to stay apart because of this law. People hope that the income limit will be reconsidered in the years to come.