UK Immigration Policy has empathy for the genuinely needy Immigrants
The Immigration policy is observed to be going through series of changes based upon various factors. The new government is keen on bringing in more of high skilled workers who can contribute to the economy. The policy will now onwards exercise much tougher control on the non-economic and its kind visas. In this preview, the ratio of the asylum seeker’s immigration seems to be a big question for the Immigration Lawyers who assist the seekers. Besides the government proposing stricter rules on non-economic immigration, for a stronger economy by allowing only highly skilled workers, there are certain myths about the asylum seekers that have made their entry into the UK difficult. The strict rules of immigration for the asylum seekers by the UK government is only to arrest the volume of unauthentic cases, England still has empathy for the genuinely need. Some of the famous myths about the Asylum seekers are shared below.
“Asylum Seekers coming from ‘safe’ countries” – From the past few years if observed most of the asylum seekers are from the countries where serious conflicts of race and religion happen. Countries like Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Columbia and former Yugoslavia are few among those where grave human rights abuses prevail.
” UK is a ‘easy go’ for asylum seekers” – This is considered a myth as the European countries have made the immigration policies very tough, there by having proper control on the volume of immigration. In the year 2002, nearly 13,000 failed asylum seekers are removed from UK. Previous ‘ exceptional leave to remain’ which guaranteed four years of stay has been replace by ‘ Humanitarian protection’ that allows only six month stay now.
Refugees increase unemployment by replacing ‘Real’ British citizens – This statement to fairer extent untrue because there are many barriers to employment of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK as per the Asylum council say. Due to lack of knowledge, lack of English language skills, funding requirements, confusion over permission to work documentation etc are few of the major barriers tough in the path of employment of the refugees and asylum seekers.
