Immigration to the United Kingdom

Man jailed 18 months for burning welfare form

12 May 2012

An unemployed man has been sentenced to 1? years in jail for setting an application form on fire inside a social welfare office after his welfare payments were terminated.

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Training stepped up after assaults against immigration officers rise

1 Aug 2011

The Immigration Department has stepped up self-defence training for its frontline officers after a drastic rise in assaults by travellers at checkpoints.

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Helper couple join abode fight

8 Dec 2010

A Filipino couple who have been working in Hong Kong as domestic workers since the 1980s and who have had three children in the city are seeking a judicial review of the government's decision to...

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Charges against refugees within policy, court told

28 Apr 2010

The government yesterday said it had acted within the law when it charged dozens of refugees and torture claimants who had allegedly been working while remaining illegally in the city, saying the...

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IELTS to be used in British points-based system

15 Mar 2008

The IELTS exam has been given the stamp of approval for use in the British immigration system.

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Results of quality migrant scheme please panel, despite quota shortfall

21 Sep 2007

Competition for talent is intense the world over and an uptake of less than a quarter of the annual quota of 1,000 admissions to a quality migrant scheme since June last year was satisfactory, an...

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Opinion

Ferry companies shouldn't be subsidised while they burn dirty fuel

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Shirley Yam

What were our top officials doing to let HKMEx fail?

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The Empire in black and white

Often described as Britain's black Roddy Doyle, Andrea Levy prefers to call herself 'the bastard child of Empire'. 'When I say I'm English, it's not an act of patriotism, it's almost an act of...

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Work ruling: It's the international norm

I refer to the article headlined 'Dependant visa rules may harm HK's allure' (South China Morning Post, July 12).

I disagree with the assertions made by many of the chambers of...

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Immigration staff doing difficult job

I refer to the report headlined 'Women tells of terror over arrests' (South China Morning Post, May 9).

It described how one of the right-of-abode claimants described her 'terror' as...

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Human rights 'are not a luxury'

A legislator has criticised security chief Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee for treating human rights as a 'luxury' by saying that rights advocated by the Catholic Church might only exist in heaven.

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Police swoop on abode protesters

More than 300 police and immigration officers yesterday cleared dozens of abode seekers from Chater Garden after protesters trapped Secretary for Security Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee in her car for an...

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Restraint needed

However justified their case to stay may be, right of abode seekers and their supporters unwisely allowed emotions to get the better of them when they trapped Secretary for Security Regina Ip Lau...

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