The REC has been invited to chair the forthcoming ‘Employing and Vetting non-UK Nationals conference’ in London on Tuesday 9th March.  
This one-day conference, organized by Symposium Events, will feature practical case studies, workshops and up-to-date legal advice on the Points Based immigration system and how to check migrant workers for immigration purposes. The conference will [...]

Preventing illegal immigration in the source country is at the heart of a new international strategy launched today by the government.
The government is committed to putting migration at the heart of international relationships by working closer than ever with foreign governments, sharing data and intelligence with enforcement agencies abroad, and ensuring developing countries have the [...]

Immigration appeals will benefit from a simpler, more streamlined administration from 15 February as the former Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT) moves into the new two-tier Tribunals Service structure.
The AIT is the latest to benefit from the process of bringing all the main tribunals into a unified tribunals system, set out in the Tribunals, Courts [...]

Two immigration offenders have been caught working illegally at Wasabisabi in Sheffield last week following a crackdown on rogue employers.
Officers from the UK Border Agency targeted Wasabisabi, 227a London Road in Sheffield in an intelligence led operation shortly after 1730 on Tuesday 26 January.
They found two Chinese males, aged 24 and 42, working their illegally. [...]

Five suspected immigration offenders have been found working at a Torquay restaurant which has already been fined £30,000 for employing illegal staff. Immigration officers visited Oriental Touch, 21 St Marychurch Road, on Tuesday, 19 January after receiving intelligence of illegal workers there.
Entering the business at about 1730, officers checked the immigration status of staff and [...]

Skilled migrant workers will now have to apply for an ID card when they extend their Visas, it has been reported.
The government scheme has been extended, meaning Tier 2 foreign nationals will need such a card if they wish to stay longer in the UK.
This bracket includes religious ministers, skilled workers, overseas business representatives, dependents [...]

Skilled migrants seeking to renew their visas will now be required to apply for a compulsory ID card, Border and Immigration Minister Phil Woolas announced today, as the roll out of the scheme continues ahead of schedule.
Since the scheme was introduced in November 2008 for students renewing their visa under Tier 4 of the Points [...]

Eight Israeli illegal workers have been removed from the UK after they were caught selling hair and beauty products to Christmas shoppers at Cribbs Causeway.
We will not turn a blind eye to foreign nationals working in the UK without permission. Jane Farleigh, Wales and the South West Regional Director, UK Border Agency
 
Acting on intelligence, officers [...]

A Hayes firm is facing a potential fine of up to £170,000, after 17 illegal workers were arrested during a UK Border Agency raid.
Acting on intelligence, officers targeted the premises of Only 4U Ltd on Bullsbrook Road on the morning of Thursday 10 December.
The operation was part of an ongoing clampdown on illegal working in [...]

The government has responded to claims that the Tier 2 (Intra company transfer) category of the points-based system is providing a loophole for Indian IT companies to bring foreign workers into the UK.
Under an intra-company transfer, an employer can fill vacancies in its UK operations by bringing across some of its existing foreign-based staff. It [...]