Immigration Matters: How many illegal migrants and visa overstayers liv...

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How many illegal migrants and visa overstayers live in the UK?

The short answer is that nobody knows, even the Home Office can only estimate the number of visa overstayers, illegal entrants or undocumented migrants there are in the UK.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimated migration to the UK for just one year, ending June 2016, at over 650,000. Prior to the Brexit vote, immigration from the EU was the highest on record, while immigration from non-EU countries was similar to previous years, despite measures to curb it.

In another report, it has emerged that the number of EU nurses registering to work in the UK has dropped by 90% since the Brexit vote last June.

How do we work out the number of illegal immigrants?

Illegal immigrants in the UK exist largely as an unregistered collective, according to the New Statesman, because if the registered they would risk being deported and banned from returning to the UK for many years.

The ONS said that “by its very nature it is impossible to quantify accurately the number of people who are in the country illegally.” Population Surveys or the official Census figures are based on information provided voluntarily by householders.

The last official estimate was compiled in 2005 when the government assessed methods used by other countries to estimate their level of illegal immigration, and applied the finding to the UK. They predicted the number at 430,000, but the London School of Economics produced a report in 2007 estimating the number of ‘irregular’ migrants at 533,000. 

The Home Office collect “Immigration Enforcement Data”, such as number of enforcement raids based on tip-offs, number of people refused visa entry and number of overstayers deported from the UK.

In the second quarter of 2016 there were just 941 enforcement visit arrests. However, the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford said that 40,896 immigrants were deported in 2015, which would include migrants refused visa extensions or overstaying students.

At 40,000 removals a year it would take almost 11 years to remove all illegal immigrants based on the government’s own estimates and assuming no increase in numbers.

The ippr estimated that it would take 20 years to remove 500,000 illegal migrants at a cost of £5 billion. It costs an average of £10,000 to remove someone from the UK, so those figures are not so far fetched.

Other organisations, such as Migration Watch, estimate much higher numbers of undocumented migrants and the number could be between 750,000 and 1,000,000 people living illegally in the UK. This has prompted calls for an amnesty, which even Boris Johnson supported when he was the London Mayor.

The 2016 Immigration Act will make life harder for illegal as well as legal migrants wishing to work in the UK on a working or student visa.

Private property owning landlords can be fined up to £3000 for letting to anyone who does not have the right to reside in the UK and can face criminal charges and jail for knowingly renting to illegal immigrants.

The UK is still an attractive place to work, start a business and buy property – no restrictions on foreign buyers - a vibrant mortgage market with record low interest rates.

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Immigration Matters: EU nurses coming to UK drops by 90% since Brexit

Immigration Matters: EU nurses coming to UK drops by 90% since Brexit: The number of EU Nurses registering to work in Britain has fallen dramatically by 90% since the Brexit referendum according to new figures...

EU nurses coming to UK drops by 90% since Brexit

The number of EU Nurses registering to work in Britain has fallen dramatically by 90% since the Brexit referendum according to new figures by the UK nursing regulator and reports in The Telegraph and BBC.

Last July, just after the referendum where 52% of British people voted to leave the European Union, 1,304 nurses joined the nursing and midwifery register to work in the UK,  official figures show. Last month the number had plummeted to just 101 nurses.

Figures from the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) also report more EU nurses deciding to stop working in the UK at a time when every hospital in the country reporting a shortage of nurses and many European countries, such as Romania, Spain and Portugal have high unemployment and little opportunity for newly qualified nurses.

The NMC register shows that 318 decided to leave almost double the number who left in  June 2016 when the referendum took place.

European nurses, like their non-EU counterparts, are now required to take a language test, which may partly account for the drop in registrations. There is also a fall in of overseas nurses requesting an application pack to register to work in the UK, with only 453 enquiries in December compared with 697 in July.

In January 2016, just under 3,700 EU nurses and midwives applied for an NMC application pack, but following the introductions of English language test the following month, the number fell to 861. EU nurses do not need to carry out competence tests, as their qualifications are accepted by the NMC.

The health sector and NHS depends on overseas workers and in 2015/16, 9,388 overseas nurses and midwives registered to come work in the UK.

NMC chief executive Jackie Smith, said: “This is the first sign of a change following the EU referendum and it is our responsibility as the regulator to share these figures with the public.”

She said it was too early to “definitively” link the trends to Brexit.

Janet Davies, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, said: “If this is the beginning of a long-term drop in the number of nurses coming to the UK from other parts of the EU, that’s a serious concern at a time when we’re already facing a crisis in nurse staffing numbers.”

“With 24,000 nursing vacancies across the UK, the NHS could not cope without the contribution from EU nurses. Without a guarantee that EU nationals working in the NHS can remain, it will be much harder to retain and recruit staff from the EU, and patient care will suffer as a result.”

The 2016 Immigration Act has introduced tough new measures for illegal migrants and visa overstayers, but the new £30,000 minimum salary for a work permit and settlement rules may be deterring overseas nurses,

Based on my own previous experience on recruitment trips to Romania, Spain, Portugal and Bulgaria, the UK is not always the first choice for EU nurses.Many would choose Germany, France or Belgium, which offer excellent packages. Unlike non-EU nurses on work permits, EU nurses are more transient and prepared to return home after a period on working in the UK.

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Immigration Matters: Immigration Act 2016 - main highlights in a nutshe...

Immigration Matters: Immigration Act 2016 - main highlights in a nutshe...: After writing about some of the effects of the far reaching 2016 Immigration Act (or Law) on migrants wishing to work in the UK on a worki...

Immigration Act 2016 - main highlights in a nutshell

After writing about some of the effects of the far reaching 2016 Immigration Act (or Law) on migrants wishing to work in the UK on a working visa, I received many questions about other issues.

You can read the whole Act here at the legislation.gov website (you would be surprised at how many lawyer don’t even read the entire Act), but if the you prefer a brief summary, see below.

What are the main points of the Immigration Act 2016?

Companies or employers who employ illegal migrants face criminal charges and this could also apply to the worker.

Visa overstayers and migrants who do not have permission to be in the UK could have their bank accounts can be frozen and their driver’s license confiscated.

For the first time a landlord to knowingly renting a property to an illegal migrant will be committing a criminal offence and could go to jail for up to five years.

The Home Office ‘deport first, appeal later’ scheme will apply to all migrants, not just convicted criminals with no residency rights or to people the Secretary of State considered in the ‘public good’ to remove.

Even migrants lodging a human rights or asylum claim will soon be removed to their home country pending the outcome of their appeal against the decision to remove them, except where removal would cause them ‘serious, irreversible harm’.

The new Immigration Act will have serious consequences for visa overstayers, illegal immigrants and human right claimants. If in doubt, seek legal advice.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s (pictured above) temporary ban on migrants entering the U.S. from a number of Muslim countries and been overruled by a Judge. Trump said he will press ahead and press ahead with the executive order, which does not need approval by Congress.

The digital revolution is also having far reaching effects on work in the UK and America. Millions lack the right skills, but I am convinced that you can work from home and make money online provided you have the right internet training and support and real products of value to market.

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Immigration Matters: Minimum Salary for Tier 2 Work Permits to Rise to ...: If you think 2016 was a tough year for non-EU migrants, 2017 is about to get even harder, especially for anyone considering coming to the U...

Minimum Salary for Tier 2 Work Permits to Rise to £30,000 as UK Immigration gets Tougher for Non-EU Migrants

If you think 2016 was a tough year for non-EU migrants, 2017 is about to get even harder, especially for anyone considering coming to the UK on a Tier 2 (General) working visa, such as a nurse.

The Immigration Act 2016 will see the Home Office bring in sweeping changes from April to the Tier 2 General work permit rules, including increasing the minimum salary requirement to £30,000, with no transitional arrangement for those sponsored between 24 November 2016 and April 2017. 

Nursing will remain on the Shortage Occupation List, as there are still thousands of nurse jobs in the UK. But for the first time employers will be required to carry out a ‘Resident Labour Market Test’ before assigning a nurse a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS), even if the job is on the national shortage list.

The new minimum salary will automatically exclude many jobs and is above the UK average income, such as band 5 NHS nurses who start as around £26,000,

In addition, a new ‘Genuineness’ test will mean that Tier 2 applicants must satisfy the Home Office or entry clearance officer that they genuinely intend to undertake and are capable of undertaking the job for which the CoS is assigned.This could include attending an interview for entry clearance visas or further leave to remain.

Employers will be hit by a new tax or 'Immigration Skills Charge' of £1000 per year, per migrant to 'encourage' them to invest in training resident workers. There will be an exemption for PhD occupations, Tier 2 (ICT-Graduate Trainees) and Tier 4 students switching to Tier 2. The Home Office will also have more powers to search and seize documents from an employer, such as wage slips and time sheets, in order to build a case against them and an illegal worker.

Migrants will no longer have a 28-day ‘grace period’ in which to apply for further leave to remain, which means you could be branded a visa overstayer on your immigration record.

UK settlement rules are being tightened from April 2016, after which some Tier 2 visa holders will have to be earning a minimum of £35,000 per annum in order to apply for permanent residency or indefinite leave to remain. If you do not meet the salary requirement, you will not be able to stay in the UK for longer than six years and will not be able to reapply for another Tier 2 visa until you have completed a 12-month ‘cooling-off’ period outside the UK.

The Brexit, or leave EU vote, will do little to curb European immigration in the next few years as arguments rage over what type of exit Britain wants. This week the Supreme Court ruled that the Article 50 process, the mechanism required to trigger UK's exit from the European Union, must be put before MP's in Parliament. And with EU leaders insisting that free movement of labour is non-negotiable when it comes to thrashing out any trade deals, it looks like the only option for Home Secretary Amber Rudd to reduce immigration to the UK is to continue restricting non-EU migrants.

Across the pond in America today, Donald Trump has announced a halt on the U.S. refugee immigration programme for a temporary period. In his inauguration speech Trump spoke of 'America first' and wants to boost employment for resident workers. However, America still has a shortage of around one million nurses and the IT sector in the U.S and UK needs to attract the brightest and best for their growing digital economy.

The Immigration Act will have a number of consequences for Tier 2 employers and migrant workers. I will be giving you further guidance on the settlement (ILR) changes, as well as other changes, such as Tier 4 student visa switching rules, in future articles.

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Criminal offence to rent property to illegal immigrants - guilty landlords face 5 years in jail

Last year was momentous for the UK – the vote to leave the European Union or 'Brexit', a new UK Prime Minister (Theresa May), a new U.S. President elect, Donald Trump, who will be sworn in this Friday, as well more new Immigration Rules from the Home Office.

Trump has promised to get tough on undocumented migrants by, among other measures, ending the rights of so-called 'anchor babies' - born on American soil to undocumented migrants - to obtain U.S. Citizenship. In the UK, unlike the U.S., citizenship is not granted by virtue of being born here. However, human rights grounds have been widely used to legalise the parents of children born in the UK.

In February 2016, I informed my readers that, as part of Government plans to crack down on illegal immigration, private landlords in England should be carrying out mandatory "right-to-rent" checks on tenants for all new tenancies, Many do not know how or perhaps don't bother. They should start learning, and fast. Landlords can be fined up to £3000 for letting a property to anyone who does not have the right to reside in the UK. 

But things are about to get even tougher under new rules recently announced by Home Secretary Amber Rudd.

From 1 December, the Home Office made it a criminal offence if a landlord knows or have “reasonable cause to believe” that their property is occupied by someone who is disqualified due to their immigration status. Convicted landlords can face a jail term of up to 5 years - yes, PRISON, and a criminal record. 

The National Landlords Association (NLA) say landlords may avoid a criminal conviction provided they have a 'robust defence' and can demonstrate that they have taken appropriate steps to check a tenant's immigration status. 

The new Home Office restrictions will make it more difficult for visa overstayers and illegal immigrants to rent accommodation. They are already finding it harder to open a bank account or work in the UK without a work permit or the correct UK visa.

Landlords must carry out proper checks and keep records to prove it. The civil penalties still apply in addition to the new criminal offence for more serious cases.

I hope 2017 will be a good year for you, whether you want to earn more money, travel, stay healthy or just be happy!

Immigration Matters: Voluntary Returns Service offers illegal immigrant...

Immigration Matters: Voluntary Returns Service offers illegal immigrant...: Illegal immigrants can take advantage of an incentive scheme to leave Britain under packages, including free flights, money to start up bu...

Voluntary Returns Service offers illegal immigrants and overstayers free flights, amnesty and way out of UK

Illegal immigrants can take advantage of an incentive scheme to leave Britain under packages, including free flights, money to start up businesses and help with finding schools for their children.

The Home Office offers failed asylum seekers and those who overstay their visa an amnesty from arrest if they attend meetings to discuss their return.

Anyone who leaves voluntarily could be allowed back into the UK in as little as two years, while those who are arrested and deported face a 10 year ban.

The Daily Mail reports that a senior immigration official has appeared on a spiritual guru’s TV show to promote the Voluntary Returns Scheme. 

Richard Lederle, leader of the South-East England immigration compliance and enforcement team, recently appeared on a cable TV show called Spiritual Live to advertise the Home Office’s new stance.

He told guru Shri RajRajeshwar Guruji: ‘We’ve changed the approach over the past six to 12 months, where we are running these surgeries within the communities to give this free advice to those who find themselves in an increasingly difficult situation and here illegally.

‘What you get with the Voluntary Returns Service is a more tailored, bespoke package specific to the individual needs of that case. That would include potential medical assistance, certainly if there’s family, and in terms of potential reintegration, we’re looking at education costs, possible work placements on return to country of origin.’

Mr Lederle added: ‘There has to be a benefit. If you’re returned through the enforced route, you face almost inevitably a ten-year return ban. The benefits could be a reduction to as little as two years. You can talk face-to-face without fear of being arrested. Let’s be absolutely clear on that point, if they are willing to turn up to those surgeries, they will not be arrested.’

While some critics argue that the generous terms of the Voluntary Returns Scheme is a bribe that sends out the message that it is acceptable to be in the UK illegally, the Home Office has little choice but to offer incentives to the estimate 1 million visa overstayers and illegal immigrants currently living in the UK. Human rights appeals can add hundreds of thousands of pounds and even millions to the final bill.

It costs the taxpayer an average of £10,000 to find and deport an illegal immigrant according to the think tank, ippr, which a few years ago estimated that it will cost £5 billion and 20 years to deport 500,000 overstayers.

   Nurses needed in the UK

One category of migrant the UK does not want to send home is nurses. The NHS and private sector are recruiting nurses now and offering working visas to candidates with ILETS 7.00 in ALL bands (no exceptions) and initial NMC registration. for further information on the NMC process see -

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Immigration Matters: Nurses needed in UK, Work Permits and UK Visas ava...

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Nurses needed in UK, Work Permits and UK Visas available

The new British Prime Minister, Theresa May wants to reduce net migration, but nurses are desperately needed by UK employers, especially in the private nursing home sector, which cannot recruit staff locally.

Due to a severe shortage of nurses in the UK and aggressive recruitment by NHS Hospitals, the private sector is suffering the worst staffing crisis since the early 2000's, the the RCN nurses union estimate that there are 20,000 nursing job vacancies in England and Wales.

Due to a severe shortage of nurses in the UK and aggressive recruitment by NHS Hospitals, the private sector is suffering the worst staffing crisis since the early 2000's.

The EU market for nurses has been heavily depleted by numerous recruitment drives over the last three years, and employers are increasingly turning to non-EU nurses to fill the UK job vacancies.

In order to work in the UK as a nurse trained outside the EU, you should first register with the NMC on their website. You will need to take an online test and pass an IELTS exam at level 7.00 across all bands. The language test is the biggest stumbling block for overseas nurses, according to a soon to be published new study. 

NMC fees for the 4 stage application process:

Application for nursing/midwifery £140
Part 1 test of competence (CBT) £130
Part 2 test of competence (OSCE) £992
Admission onto our register £153
Total £1415

For full details, check the NMC website http://www.nmc.org.uk/ and see if you will qualify for UK registration.

Despite rising immigration in the UK and government plans to restrict skilled migrants to 30,000 per year, Tier 2 working visas or work permits are available for shortage occupation category non-EU nurses right now with excellent salary packages up to £30,000 per year.




Employers need to register with the Home Office as Tier 2 Sponsors in order to employ non-EU nurses. We can assist employers with the Tier 2 sponsorship registration process.

If you are interested in working in the UK as a nurse in a nursing home, or an employer looking for staff or Tier 2 sponsorship start by registering with the NMC where you can see all the rules.

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No points based system for EU migrants says PM as plans unveiled for £1.9 million wall at Calais

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has ruled out introducing an Australian-style system to cut migration, one of the key promises of the ‘out’ campaign in the June Brexit referendum.

Actually, Britain already has a version of the Aussie-style points-based system introduced in 2008 as the answer to Home Office prayers, at a cost of several billion pounds, by the outgoing Labour government.

The five-tier points system has since been watered down by the Cameron government (under which Mrs May served as Home Secretary) in a bid to get immigration under control and slash net migration to the ‘tens of thousands’.

The points system suits Australia, which needs to attract migrants and has a twice the immigration rate as a proportion of its population than Britain. The Aussie points system, similar to the Canadian immigration programme, were designed to allow workers to move to Australia before they found jobs.

Only Tier 1 of the British or the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme, now abolished, allowed this kind of migrant for non-EU citizens. The vast majority of people migrating to the UK did so under the work permit (Tier 2) or on a Tier 4 student visa.

If you have job offer in Australia which fits their requirements, you can migrate there on work visas. Others can apply for entry to come and look for work if they get enough points on the basis of age, education and so on.

Although open for skilled immigrants and students, Australia has an extremely tough system for dealing with refugees and asylum seekers who are sent back to their countries of origin before their claims are assessed or shipped offshore detention centres, such as the island of Nauru.

Think tanks and organisations like Migration Watch, are calling for vastly reduced UK migration levels from Europe and a work permit system for EU migrants, which they claim will reduce net migration by 100,000.

In the meantime, the UK government wants to build a massive multi-million pound wall around the port of Calais in France to stop illegal immigration through the channel tunnel.

Unfortunately, migrants are being exploited by traffickers who charge them thousands of dollars to smuggle them into the UK illegally on the back of a lorry or in an unsafe boat. Many of these victim end up in Calais.   

It would actually be cheaper, and a lot safer, to come to here legally on a student visa and study in the UK. Better still, why not study online at a British or American university at a fraction of the cost or invest in your own business and become an internet entrepreneur.  

Anyone can now set up a home based internet business - from almost anywhere in the world - working from home, trading or selling goods online. Companies like Amazon, eBay and Upwork offer everyone an opportunity to earn a living and even make a fortune working from home and living the laptop lifestyle.

You can set up an Amazon account and start a business today at no cost. No premises, no rent, no staff! It has never been as easy as it is right now to set up an online business.

Did you know that with a Amazon seller App you can scan and upload thousands of products from books to electronics, including stuff lying around in your own home. Yes, you could be sitting on a small fortune right now.

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Convicted Asylum seeker criminal can’t be deported - no country will have him

An asylum seeker with 14 convictions for 17 crimes cannot be deported back to his native Algeria, or anywhere else, because no other country will have him, a High Court Judge was told.

The 31-year-old Algerian repeat offender presents 'high risk of harm to the public' and has committed 'numerous criminal offences' including violent and drug crime.

Since arriving in the UK from Africa in 2003, the man has been convicted of 17 offences over a seven-year period, but has lodged a compensation claim against the UK Government claiming he has been unlawfully held in a detention centre.

High Court Judge Martin McKenna saw through his story and ruled in favour of the Home Office dismissing the claim, but had to release him from immigration detention after deportation attempts failed.

Judge McKenna said the man, who has a history of alcoholism, drug use and homelessness and cannot be named, had been born in a refugee camp in southern Algeria, claimed that he was 'stateless'.

He said Home Office staff had approached authorities in different parts of Africa - in a bid to deport - but officials abroad had refused to provide travel documents to the man.

In his ruling, Judge McKenna said: 'The claimant entered the United Kingdom in 2003 and claimed asylum in June 2003.

'In 2005 the claimant began to develop a mental health disorder. He has been treated as an inpatient in hospital since that time both on a voluntary and involuntary basis under mental health legislation.

'He has had periods when he has been drinking heavily and periods when he has been street homeless. He has had periods when he has been suicidal and periods when he has self-harmed. He has been prescribed medication for his mental health condition.'

Judge McKenna added: 'The claimant is a serial offender. Between April 7 2005 and September 10 2012 he acquired 14 convictions for 17 separate offences including attempted robbery, criminal damage, drugs and numerous convictions for shoplifting.

'He was assessed as posing a high risk of harm to the public.'

Judge McKenna said the man had subsequently been detained under immigration legislation pending deportation.

The man had claimed that he had been unlawfully detained between January and November 2015, but Home Office officials disputed his claim and said he was a 'serial absconder' and had committed 'numerous criminal offences'.

Staff said he had been held at a time where there had been a prospect of deportation - and they said reasonable deportation steps had been taken. 

The man, who has a history of mental health problems and was not named in the ruling, claimed that he had been unlawfully detained and wanted compensation from the Home Office.

Judge McKenna dismissed the compensation claim but described the man as a 'serial offender' - listing convictions for attempted robbery, criminal damage, drug crime and shoplifting - and said he had been assessed as 'posing a high risk of harm to the public'.

The Human Rights Act could be abolished and replaced by a British Bill of Rights in a move to end unpopular judgements allowing criminals and suspected terrorists to remain in the UK - typically on grounds such as the article 8 ‘right to a family life’ - thwarting Home Office efforts to deport them.

If you are still stuck or unable to migrate, have you considered working from home or setting up a home-based business? Anyone can now set up a home based Internet business working from home or selling goods online. Companies like Amazon, eBay and Upwork offer everyone an opportunity to earn a living and even make a fortune working from home and living the laptop lifestyle.

It has never been as easy as it is right now to set up an online business. I work from home. In the past, you needed a lots of technical knowledge and skills to set up websites and marketing ability to work online. Now there are companies which do it all for you.

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The internet has opened up a new world of learning, working, socialising and doing business. We no longer need to go back to school or university to learn new skills. We can work from home, start a business or find a new life partner all from the comfort of our home.

At the click of a mouse, you can now find everything from a short instructional video to a full degree course online. If you would like more information on a free course on how to survive and thrive in the digital economy revolution and discover the truth about how to make money online, click here.