Category: UK

Visas, Immigration & Nationality

Pros and cons of buying products in store and on the net : Online versus in store shopping

Black Friday Fever! Because of previous year’s riot and chaos brought about by the massive sales, people now opted to shop online for their safety and convenience. With over 36 million of UK residents going online every day, UK is biggest online shoppers in the developed world! But when it comes to our weekly shopping…
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Immigration Bill 2015 – 2016 – New sanctions

This Immigration Bill will introduce new sanctions on illegal immigration, protect public services and tackle exploitation of low-skilled workers in the UK: Part 1  Labour market and illegal working – will deal with exploitation in the labour market by: providing a logical enforcement strategy to crack down on serious exploitation of workers by establishing a…
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Theresa May on Immigration Reform

Theresa May on Immigration Reform

Theresa May addressed immigration reform in her speech to the Conservative party conference on 06 October 2015. The home secretary said that high numbers of immigrants were not in the national interest. However, her immigration speech was called “dangerous and factually wrong” in The Telegraph which is looking at whether her statements were actually true:…
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Syria Refugee

Cameron’s Support for Syrian Refugees

On 7 September our Prime Minister in his statement to the House of Commons proposed that the UK should resettle up to 20,000 Syrians (https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/syria-refugees-and-counter-terrorism-prime-ministers-statement). David Cameron announced the increase of the UK aid budget with a further £100 million, which will go to Syria, Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon. He also discussed the problems Lebanon…
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Things You Need To Know About Changes in UK Immigration Rules

Statement of Changes in UK Immigration rules HC 297, published on 13 July 2015, were not very good news, particularly for international students. It is quite obvious that main changes intend to reduce numbers of applications in order to reduce net migration. Tier 4 International Students New students applying to study at publicly-funded further education colleges will no longer have…
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