Fee To Enter? Britain’s Immigration Crackdown Continues

Immigrants entering Britain may be forced to pay a fee, which would only be reimbursed when they leave UK soil, and if they haven’t used health services. The UK is taking an increasingly hardline stance, despite a recent sharp decline in immigration.

The UK is seeking to impose financial bonds “as a further deterrent to reduce non-compliance by high-risk nationalities,” a source close to Theresa May, the Home Secretary, told the Daily Mail. Additionally, migrant family members already residing in the country would be made to pay a sum of thousands of pounds. It would be returned upon leaving the country.

If the reform goes through, immigrants entering the country for living and work purposes would have to put down the money to guarantee they wouldn’t ‘drain’ the country’s financial resources. Such resources would include things like non-emergency care from the health service. However, if British welfare was used by migrants entering the country, they would risk losing their money.



The entry fee would additionally be used to make sure immigrants didn’t outstay their visa (and fining them if they do), consolidating an existing act. The Immigration and Asylum Act (1999), already gives the government the right to make immigrants front some money upon entering the country, which can be retained by the government should they remain in the UK after the expiration of their visa.



Individuals from two or three countries were tagged as “high risk”, and it is at them that the scheme is targeted. The UK will not be allowed to impose the charge on immigrants from EU countries who comprise the EU’s Schengen passport-free zone.

Bulgaria and Romania had hoped to gain the same freedom to enter the UK as other EU nations, and were expected to apply to join the zone in a meeting on Thursday. However, their entrance needed to be granted through a unanimous vote, and Germany announced their plan to veto the move on Monday.

“There will be no vote, and no decision,” a source in the EU's current Irish presidency told AFP on Wednesday. “Several nations have reserves or concerns.” As a result, residents of the two countries could be among those impacted.

Net migration into Britain has fallen by a third, from 247,000 thousand migrants in June 2011 to 163,000 in 2012, according the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Conservatives said they would clamp down on migrants, saying they were taking advantage of Britain's “soft touch,” which he was determined to quash.

On Wednesday, the Labour party leader Ed Miliband promised to take a heavy hand with immigration. He stated that the party had got it wrong in the past, saying “millions of people are concerned.”

“Low-skill migration has been too high and we need to bring it down,” he said.

The Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper called for the closure of student visa loopholes on Thursday, saying that many overstay or abuse (e.g. working instead of studying), despite the party denying accusations that they are moving to the right on migration.

The British Conservative party was shunted into third place in the Eastleigh by-election in February. The UKIP candidate, who beat the Conservatives, is a member of a party described by the Tory government as packed with “loonies and closet racists.”

It has been suggested that parties are adopting a stronger stance because of UKIP’s reputation for being heavy-handed on immigration.

Labour MP Diane Abbot, issued a recent warning to her party not to “spiral downwards” by veering to the right on immigration as a result of the by-election results.
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http://rt.com/news/britain-fee-immigration-politics-922/

Britain will be shooting itself in the leg if they see this through. As required revenue from student admissions will dwindle as they close those student visa loopholes.

Interestingly it is indians and pakistanis that abuse UK student visa migration laws with all those offshore satellite campuses and one floor diploma colleges in britain often plied by their people to beat UK Border entry guidelines.

I see honest applicants and migrants of African descent been affected the more.

There is nothing new here, South Africa does the same thing.

justwise: There is nothing new here, South Africa does the same thing.

What is the meaning of this,let them go and rest jare.

universalbets: Britain will be shooting itself in the leg if they see this through. As required revenue from student admissions will dwindle as they close those student visa loopholes.

Interestingly it is indians and pakistanis that abuse UK student visa migration laws with all those offshore satellite campuses and one floor diploma colleges in britain often plied by their people to beat UK Border entry guidelines.

I see honest applicants and migrants of African descent been affected the more.

Allow them, let them make their silly laws and see how well people will go around it. No be law, laws were meant to be broken,...ni.

justwise: There is nothing new here, South Africa does the same thing.

Don't forget the terrorists are also ready to pay a fee.

Freiburger:
Don't forget the terrorists are also be ready to pay a fee.

Paying the fees does not mean no check on individual risk to their country, the fees is just a deterrent for people who wish to overstay their visas

Those countries that have arranged themselves properly will always do shakara for the mumu countries. Nigeria would do same if we were performing...I can imagine how we would have put so many barriers against other African nations trying to come and chop better life in Nigeria.

Stay in your country!

Ahahahahaahahaha

E no fit work... The major immigrant problem has an Eastern European flavour...with Polish being Britain's unofficial second language....

Unfortunately they can't tax these guys due to free movement/trade EU laws

Dem D̶̲̥̅̊ε̲̣̣̣̥γ̲̣̣̥ see blacks & asians as desperadoes, no be their fault sha. If our country is better than it is, na beg dem for D̶̲̥̅̊ε̲̣̣̣̥γ̲̣̣̥ beg.

This guys are high on cassava flakes AKA Garri....make them no worry.....there matter go stil be like greece own.

I first heard of this story during breakfast with a colleague yesterday. She (a brit) laughed at it and feared it could paint the country poorly. It is a majorly flawed logic for a country like UK. How much will the bond be? Who gets the interest? Will genuine visitors not be repulsive to any idea of reducing their net holiday money? What is left of UK anyway? things are saturated. What if other countries replicate this to UK citizens?

Edit.

jackbauersballs: Who the hell edited my post? I made a Yoruba joke cos I'm Yoruba ffs! Wtf is wrong with this stewpid mod?

Your yoruba joke will generate into tribal war on this thread now, so to avoid this thread been derailed i have decided to edit your post.

justwise:

Your yoruba joke will generate into tribal war on this thread now, so to avoid this thread been derailed i have decided to edit your post.

Noted.

I retract my harsh words.

I support the idea of the "entry bonds" ..... However, they need to carefully assess the different visa categories when setting a fee/amount
Stay in your country if you dont have a genuine business beyond the shores of your country!!!
Britain or any other country is entitled to do whatever they want to control and check migration... It is not by force!

jackbauersballs:

Noted.

I retract my harsh words.

No worries.

ola_pluto: I first heard of this story during breakfast with a colleague yesterday. She (a brit) laughed at it and feared it could paint the country poorly. It is a majorly flawed logic for a country like UK. How much will the bond be? Who gets the interest? Will genuine visitors not be repulsive to any idea of reducing their net holiday money? What is left of UK anyway? things are saturated. What if other countries replicate this to UK citizens?

South Africa has being doing this for ages, that did not stop people traveling to SA even with their high crime rate.

ypzilanti: Those countries that have arranged themselves properly will always do shakara for the mumu countries. Nigeria would do same if we were performing...I can imagine how we would have put so many barriers against other African nations trying to come and chop better life in Nigeria.

Better life in naija? With the amount of humans there, are you ok?

kandiikane:
Better life in naija? With the amount of humans there, are you ok?

Are you blind or just dyslexic? .

Man said:

ypzilanti: Nigeria would do same if we were performing...I can imagine how we would have put so many barriers against other African nations trying to come and chop better life in Nigeria.

Go back to your village school and get a refund

Well, I will repeat, UK is dwindling, her economy is suffering because of the immigration policies.

Money rules the world

Omerian Consult: Stay in your country!

God bless you sir. The same reason i encourage them to place a total ban on immigration. I am going to spend my money and you are there doing gragra...I laugh in spanish. Na person wey water see hin leg e go carry. Make them come house come pull nah, silly twarts

See hyping and packaging at the highest...
I can't but laff at UK.

In the next 5 years or so, regardless of your accent or status, as long as you're black and from Africa, this slave trader country will start deporting everyone. UK has achieved their aims and would no longer need the services of the Africans.

You've built their roads, clean their streets and toilets, washed the bum of their elderly, trained their doctors and provided countless services. These bunch came to Africa, whipped our fathers, chained them, killed them, sold them as slaves for peanuts, took all our golds and resources, build their nation and left nothing for us.

They introduced Aids and other diseases to kill the rest of us, manufactured drugs for some of these disease so as to take all our money, invented guns so we can kill another, put us against other African countries and the rest of the world so as to cause enmity, brainwashed our elites in believing we are that bad and corrupt our leaders.

No worries - Nigerians will sill rush dat place for teriary education, Nigerians will still rush that place to work in Primark, Nigerian will still rush that place to work in toilet in club (ask shymmex na? )