Visitors
from ‘high risk’ countries in Africa and Asia will have to put up a £3,000 cash
bond to enter Britain. That is the report we’re getting from the DailyMail UK. The
program is to ensure visitors from such ‘high risk’ countries don’t overstay
their visiting visas. The money will be kept by the Government if visitors do
not return home by the time their visas expire.
Introduced
by Home Secretary Theresa May, the program will target people coming to Britain
on six-month visit visas from India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Sri Lanka and
Bangladesh. The countries are said to have the highest number of visa
application, and also a high amount of immigration fraud and abuse. 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.
Read
more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2346756/Visitors-India-high-risk-countries-Asia-Africa-forced-pay-3-000-cash-bond-enter-UK.html#ixzz2X2hsUFoT
3 comments:
Nigeria should impose similar bond on all visitors from UK. That's how it is done in international relations unless Nigeria see herself as subservient to the United Kingdom.
UK MY FOOT............RUBBISH
It is good. We would be forced to develop our country. I don't even know what is that UK.
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