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Changes To PEO Booking System

From 6th April 2013, all applications made in person via a Public Enquiry Office (PEO) will attract the relevant standard UKBA fee applied to postal applications, plus an additional £375 per person.

PM Talks Tough On Migrants And Benefits

Prime Minister David Cameron has said that EEA nationals in the UK will no longer be able to retain their status as a jobseeker and continue to claim benefits for more than six months, unless they can prove they are “genuinely seeking employment”. The move is among measures to ensure people come to the UK "for the right reasons" after it had become what the Prime Minister described as a "soft touch" under the previous Labour government.

Home Secretary Scraps UKBA

The Executive Agency status of the UK Border Agency is to end and its functions returned to the Home Office.

Immigration Rule Changes from 6th April 2013

The Home Office recently published a Statement of Intent setting out the government’s response to the Migration Advisory Committee's recommendations on the Tier 2 Codes of Practice, as well as detailing other immigration related changes.

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Foreign Student Debate Continues To Roar

Posted on 29th Jun 2012 in News

According to the BBC, Home Office Minister, Damian Green, has stated that it is essential that foreign students are not deterred by the immigration rules changes. This announcement comes in the wake of continued pressure from business and universities to relax the restrictions.

Nicola Dandridge, chief executive of UK Universities, said she could "live with" any one of the government's immigration policies taken in isolation, but that it was the "aggregate" of the changes and the way they had been implemented that was in danger of putting Britain at a disadvantage to its major higher education competitors.

She said there had been a 10% increase in applications from non-EU students to British universities this year but future projections and "anecdotal" evidence from recruitment fairs suggested the rate of increase would slow.

"We cannot say it's only the government's policies but the atmospherics, the way this is playing internationally, which is, I think, causing real problems," she added.

Mr Green has commented that now that the changes were in place it is sensible “to let the system bed down while we relentlessly go round the world saying the brightest students and the best are as welcome as ever to Britain".

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