UK's new visa regime poses threat to IIM grads
LONDON: Britain has issued deportation orders to Indian IIM alumni and engineers working here on visas obtained under the Highly-Skilled Migrants Programme (HSMP).
The Indians, who variously hold doctorates and postgraduate degrees from prestigious institutions such as IIM, have been told they must leave the UK voluntarily or face enforced removal to India.
On Thursday, some of the Indians facing deportation said they were devastated at being treated like common criminals. S Ghosh (Phd), an engineer who was assistant professor at Bahrain University , said: “What a situation to be in! On the verge of being kicked out of the country after being made to sign a declaration that Britain would be my new home and taking all reasonable steps to fulfil my commitment to do so.”
Several Indians crowd UK prisons
India is one of the 10 countries whose citizens constitute half of the number of foreign prisoners in Britain, latest figures released by the home office reveal. The figures reveal that Britain’s foreign prisoner population is rising at four times the rate of those holding British citizenship. The number of inmates in Britain’s prisons is 78,529. The number of foreign prisoners in Britain is said to have almost tripled in a decade. While the prisoner population among British passportholders rose 0.8% from 65,907 to 66,440 over the second half of last year, the foreign population climbed 3.3% from 10,834 to 11,195. The official statistics reveal that foreign men and women now make up 14.5% of the total inmate population; non-British women make up 21% of all female inmates.
Source: IANS
News of the deportation orders comes 72 hours after HSMP Forum Ltd, the recently-formed campaign group representing an estimated 30,000 disenfranchised Indians, said it was optimistic about the results of a promised “review” of the HSMP rules change by immigration minister Liam Byrne. The Indians expect to be informed of the findings of the ministerial review by the middle of next week at the latest.
The HSMP Forum Ltd took the British government to court last month to ask for a judicial review of the stringent new rules for visa extension , suddenly announced in November and enforced from December.
Source: TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2007 08:22:42 AM]
LONDON: Britain has issued deportation orders to Indian IIM alumni and engineers working here on visas obtained under the Highly-Skilled Migrants Programme (HSMP).
The Indians, who variously hold doctorates and postgraduate degrees from prestigious institutions such as IIM, have been told they must leave the UK voluntarily or face enforced removal to India.
On Thursday, some of the Indians facing deportation said they were devastated at being treated like common criminals. S Ghosh (Phd), an engineer who was assistant professor at Bahrain University , said: “What a situation to be in! On the verge of being kicked out of the country after being made to sign a declaration that Britain would be my new home and taking all reasonable steps to fulfil my commitment to do so.”
Several Indians crowd UK prisons
India is one of the 10 countries whose citizens constitute half of the number of foreign prisoners in Britain, latest figures released by the home office reveal. The figures reveal that Britain’s foreign prisoner population is rising at four times the rate of those holding British citizenship. The number of inmates in Britain’s prisons is 78,529. The number of foreign prisoners in Britain is said to have almost tripled in a decade. While the prisoner population among British passportholders rose 0.8% from 65,907 to 66,440 over the second half of last year, the foreign population climbed 3.3% from 10,834 to 11,195. The official statistics reveal that foreign men and women now make up 14.5% of the total inmate population; non-British women make up 21% of all female inmates.
Source: IANS
News of the deportation orders comes 72 hours after HSMP Forum Ltd, the recently-formed campaign group representing an estimated 30,000 disenfranchised Indians, said it was optimistic about the results of a promised “review” of the HSMP rules change by immigration minister Liam Byrne. The Indians expect to be informed of the findings of the ministerial review by the middle of next week at the latest.
The HSMP Forum Ltd took the British government to court last month to ask for a judicial review of the stringent new rules for visa extension , suddenly announced in November and enforced from December.
Source: TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2007 08:22:42 AM]