Naija people, una dey hear this one? According to a report by UK Daily Mail, visitors from ‘high risk’ countries in Africa and Asia will have to put up a £3,000 cash bond to enter Britain.
The money will be kept by the Government if visitors do not return home by the time their visas expire.
A pilot scheme, introduced by Home Secretary Theresa May, will target hundreds of people coming to Britain on six-month visit visas from India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
The countries have been picked for their high number of visa applications and what the Government sees as relatively high levels of immigration abuse and fraud, reports the Sunday Times.
The bonds, to be introduced from November, will only apply to non-EU migrants, otherwise they would fall foul of European rights to free movement.
‘This is the next step in making sure our immigration system is more selective, bringing down net migration from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands while still welcoming the brightest and the best to Britain,’ Mrs May told the Sunday Times.
‘In the long run we’re interested in a system of bonds that deters overstaying and recovers costs if a foreign national has used our public services.’
A second scheme will cover countries such as Kenya, the newspaper reports, which are considered to be lower-risk because immigration officials have fewer doubts about migrants’ plans to return home.
About 2.2million people are granted visas to enter Britain every year. Last year 296,000 people from India were granted six-month visas, as were 101,000 from Nigeria, 53,000 from Pakistan and 14,000 apiece from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
The Home Secretary plans to reduce annual net migration to under 100,000 by 2015.
Posted: at 23-06-2013 10:11 PM (10 years ago) | Upcoming
christianity at 24-06-2013 12:14 AM (10 years ago) (m)
WETIN CONCERN ME FOR INSIDE WETIN NO CONCERN ME.IM AN EU NATIONAL,AND DONT EVEN WISH TO GO TO BRITAIN AGAIN.I HATE DAT PLACE.STUPID PPL.I PITY THOSE DAT IT AFFECTS.
Posted: at 24-06-2013 12:14 AM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
nose in the air,talking thru their noses,eating fish and chips from dirty newspapers,drinking alcohol like there is no 2morrow,wishing they were born a 150 years ago,breaking into homes to steal tv sets and dirty laundry and God save the queen is not worth 5 pounds.
Posted: at 24-06-2013 03:12 AM (10 years ago) | Upcoming
EmekaBlue at 24-06-2013 03:45 AM (10 years ago) (m)
Hahaha....Government of UK is on a strategic planning scheme to bring in money into d UK!!!! Chai.. If no b say pple like India,Naija,pakistan e.t.c must travel out who giv dem mouth or brain to do such *taking advantage act* Uwa bu paw paw mehn.YAW
Posted: at 24-06-2013 03:45 AM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
EmekaBlue at 24-06-2013 03:47 AM (10 years ago) (m)
Quote from: longben on 24-06-2013 03:12 AM
nose in the air,talking thru their noses,eating fish and chips from dirty newspapers,drinking alcohol like there is no 2morrow,wishing they were born a 150 years ago,breaking into homes to steal tv sets and dirty laundry and God save the queen is not worth 5 pounds.
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Posted: at 24-06-2013 03:47 AM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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