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Cameron on Immigration – We’re Getting to Grips With It

British Prime Minister David Cameron declared, “…we’re now getting to grips with it” in his immigration speech in Hampshire on 14 April.


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Immigration Minister Defends Student Clampdown

There are too many bogus students and abuse of the system must stop, Damian Green said when defending plans to clampdown on the student visa system.


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From Damian Green: Will the Changes Effect You?

Changes are coming to the student visa system- but will they have any effect on you? Even if you are not a foreign born student, these changes will matter to everyone.


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San Michael College – the Scam Continues

Not sure how much everyone knows about this college, but they have made threats to a number of students that we are accommodating.


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High Profile Clampdown on Sham Weddings and Bogus Colleges, plus Radical Changes to the UKBA

Damien Green, the UK Immigration minister has drawn the battle lines against those who think the UK is soft touch. He said the Government was determined to send a clear message to those with no right to come to the UK.


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Threat from bogus Students low despite what the Headlines Suggest

Recent research by a well respect company – Ernst & Young – shows that fears of bogus students – often caused by outrageous headlines – are unfounded and the risk of fraudulent international students is in fact low.


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Parliamentary Question – Entry Clearances for Overseas Students

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many entry visas for students attending colleges which were subsequently closed on the intervention of the UK Border Agency were issued in (a) 2007 and (b) 2008; and how many such visas were issued between 1 January and 31 October 2009.


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Bogus Colleges Exposed: Gang Jailed

Bogus Colleges Gang ArrestedA gang of four people who were caught running bogus colleges and immigration service firms were jailed for 25 years. The bogus colleges scam was reported to have earned the criminal gang millions of pounds, the UK Border Agency (UKBA) reported.


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Chip Shop Colleges are Ruining Britain’s Reputation

UK Scam Colleges a Serious ProblemTens of thousands of bogus students are in Britain because of the “national scandal” of sham colleges that offer courses to foreigners, accoutring to The Times newspaper.


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