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Jul 29, 2011
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This week the High Court is hearing a legal challenge to a new immigration rule, which requires people wanting to join their husband, wife or partner in the UK to pass an English test before they can come. The judicial review has been brought by three couples who are arguing they have been unfairly prevented from bringing their spouse here because of the rule, which came into effect on November 29th last year.
One of the appellants has reportedly told the Court the policy is deliberately aimed at keeping out people undergoing arranged marriages, and as such that it discriminates against people from the Indian subcontinent.
One of the appellants has reportedly told the Court the policy is deliberately aimed at keeping out people undergoing arranged marriages, and as such that it discriminates against people from the Indian subcontinent.
Nov 4, 2010
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Up until now the Home Office has been desperate to assure everyone that the English language requirements for spouses and partners coming into effect at the end of this month are about integration, and not immigration control. But did he let the cat out the bag during his Newsnight interview with Jeremy Paxman last night?
It's tough at the top, as we all know, and even a minister in HM Government serves a bit of slack when it comes to a grilling by Newsnight's dreaded Paxman. But so anxious was the immigration minister, Damian Green to give some sort of hope to his interrogator that there is, just possibly, more than a snowball in hell's chance that he will be able to keep his manifesto promise to push net immigration down to the 'tens of thousands' mark by the end of this Parliament, he strayed into some very dangerous ground.
It's tough at the top, as we all know, and even a minister in HM Government serves a bit of slack when it comes to a grilling by Newsnight's dreaded Paxman. But so anxious was the immigration minister, Damian Green to give some sort of hope to his interrogator that there is, just possibly, more than a snowball in hell's chance that he will be able to keep his manifesto promise to push net immigration down to the 'tens of thousands' mark by the end of this Parliament, he strayed into some very dangerous ground.
Aug 17, 2010
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The UKBA has released a list of English language test providers for those people applying to come to the UK as a spouse/civil partner from November this year. But it looks like proving you can speak English may be more difficult for people from some countries than from others.
When the home secretary Teresa May announced last month that the government would be introducing a new English language requirement for people wanting to join their spouses and civil partners of people settled in the UK, alarm bells started to ring.
When the home secretary Teresa May announced last month that the government would be introducing a new English language requirement for people wanting to join their spouses and civil partners of people settled in the UK, alarm bells started to ring.
Jul 27, 2010
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From 29 November any migrant who wants to enter or remain in the UK as the partner of a British citizen or a person settled here will need to show that they can speak and understand English.
The UK Border Agency has released the date when English when English language tests will become compulsory for all third country migrants who want to enter the UK as the spouse or a civil partner. From 29 November 2010 the tests will be compulsory for all spouses, civil partners, fiances and fiancees of British citizens or others settled in ther UK. However, they will not apply to the spouses or civil partners of people who are citizens of other members states of the EU.
The UK Border Agency has released the date when English when English language tests will become compulsory for all third country migrants who want to enter the UK as the spouse or a civil partner. From 29 November 2010 the tests will be compulsory for all spouses, civil partners, fiances and fiancees of British citizens or others settled in ther UK. However, they will not apply to the spouses or civil partners of people who are citizens of other members states of the EU.
Jul 19, 2010
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Home Office plans to introduce pre-arrival English language tests for the spouses and partners of people settled in the UK are being challenged by two British women who have good reason to know what is at stake with this proposal.
Emily Churchill and Sophie Brown told the stories of their own efforts to bring their husbands to join them in the UK, respectively on the Guardian Comment is Free and MRN’s Migration Pulse websites back in June. Emily is married to Basel, a Palestinian living in Syria. His application for a visa to join her in the UK was refused because officials were not satisfied that, since she was a student, she would be able to support her husband without recourse to public funds. Sophie had been planning to sponsor her husband, a Togolese citizen, after a few months earning in her first job after finishing university studies.
Emily Churchill and Sophie Brown told the stories of their own efforts to bring their husbands to join them in the UK, respectively on the Guardian Comment is Free and MRN’s Migration Pulse websites back in June. Emily is married to Basel, a Palestinian living in Syria. His application for a visa to join her in the UK was refused because officials were not satisfied that, since she was a student, she would be able to support her husband without recourse to public funds. Sophie had been planning to sponsor her husband, a Togolese citizen, after a few months earning in her first job after finishing university studies.
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