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 -

Nurses needed in UK, Work Permits and UK Visas available

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

Immigration Matters: Nurses needed in UK, Work Permits and UK Visas ava...: Qualified nurses are desperately needed by UK employers, especially in the private nursing home sector. Due to a general shortage of n...

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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Immigration Matters: No points based system for EU migrants says PM as ...

Immigration Matters: No points based system for EU migrants says PM as ...: UK Prime Minister Theresa May has ruled out introducing an Australian-style system to cut migration, one of the key promises of the ‘out’ ...

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.   

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Immigration Matters: Convicted Asylum seeker criminal can’t be deported...

Immigration Matters: Convicted Asylum seeker criminal can’t be deported...: An asylum seeker with 14 convictions for 17 crimes cannot be deported back to his native Algeria, or anywhere else, because no other count...

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.

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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.

See: 7 Steps to making money online with Amazon.

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.