UK - Immigration

Lord Bilimoria for easing of UK visa rules for Indian students

LONDON: Expressing concern over the decline in the number of Indian students coming to study in UK universities, leading...

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AAP activists caught in an immigration test fraud in UK: BBC

London: The Aam Aadmi Party is yet again in the news for wrong reasons. Some AAP activists have been caught in an immigr...

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UK immigration minister quits for employing illegal immigrant

LONDON: UK's immigration minister, tipped as a future PM, was forced to resigned after it emerged that his cleaner was w...

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UK Cabinet split on EU immigration

A senior Conservative cabinet minister has been 'rebuked' by the UK's Prime Minister David Cameron for saying that he di...

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UK: 19 arrested in raids targeting Indian immigration scam

LONDON: Nineteen people were arrested on Tuesday in a series of raids targeting a suspected immigration scam where peopl...

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Cutting immigration will fuel debt, Chote warns ministers

Britain's debt is likely to go up if David Cameron meets his key immigration target, the government's independent econom...

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UK Immigration Act will introduce health charges for migrants

A health minister in the UK government has announced that the UK is to introduce charges for health care for all migrant...

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UK visas could be auctioned to overseas millionaires: Report

LONDON: UK visas may be auctioned off to overseas millionaires or "sold" in exchange for donations to hospitals and univ...

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Nigel Farage calls for five-year ban on migrant benefits

UKIP leader Nigel Farage has called for immigrants to be barred from receiving any benefits until they have been residen...

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Immigration attitudes revealed in major Ipsos Mori study

Most people in Britain think immigration is a problem - but not where they live, a major new report has revealed.While 7...

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'Immigration panic' in United Kingdom on New Year eve

Besides severe storms currently buffeting Britain, the island is in the grip of what top politicians have called an 'imm...

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Immigration fears spark political firestorm in UK

LONDON: They're portrayed as pickpockets who will steal British jobs, too. Newspapers and politicians fear a wave of imm...

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UK immigration bill could create 'climate of ethnic profiling': UNHCR

The UN refugee agency has condemned David Cameron's proposed immigration laws over fears they could stigmatise foreigner...

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Cable Attacks PM Over 'Immigration Panic'

Business Secretary Vince Cable has accused the Prime Minister of panicking on the issue of immigration and comparing tha...

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UK immigration accused of disrupting concerts

Music promoters have complained that UK immigration is making it harder for international musicians to get visas to work...

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Mike Tyson banned from UK over rape conviction

Mark Harper says that the boxer was not allowed into the UK because tough new immigration laws barring convicted crimina...

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Send the lot back: UKIP councillor defends anti-immigration video comments

A video in which senior UKIP politician Victoria Ayling calls for immigrants to the UK to be sent home has been made pub...

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UK must remove students from Net Migration Target: Lord Swraj Paul

LONDON: Leading NRI industrialist and educationist Lord Swraj Paul has said that Britain must remove students from the N...

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Online payment must for British visa from December 16

NEW DELHI: All Indians seeking British visa will have to pay the visa fees online through debit or credit cards as other...

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British city Leicester gets new Indian visa centre

London: The British city of Leicester has got its first Indian visa centre after twenty years of campaigning, a media re...

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