Reform at the Immigration and Nationality Directorate

A collection of extracts from the UK media


Watchdog names OISC 'the biggest immigration scam in British history'
public-watchdog.co.uk - London,UK
... One egregious example of the mess we are in, which appears to have been overlooked thus far, is the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC). Let's look at some facts: ...

Strip Reid of immigration powers says watchdog
Daily Mail - UK - UK
... the UK opened up its labour market to Eastern Europeans from new EU states. On Tuesday, Mr Reid is to announce a shake-up of the Immigration and Nationality ...

Watchdog slams detention centres
ePolitix - UK
... The Immigration and Nationality Directorate, with ... be well managed and that links to local immigration service teams ... are made on individuals arriving in the UK. ...

Watchdog:  No accurate figures on illegal immigrants
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... Roberts, the Immigration and Nationality Directorate's director of ... The immigration watchdog Migration Watch estimates that ... asylum seekers in the UK, basing its ...
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immigration service revamp



Reid targets immigration 'mess'
BBC News - UK
The UK's immigration system has been denounced as a "horrible mess", as Home Secretary John Reid launches his latest initiative to shake-up the department. ...
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summary of criticism of recent immigration changes
Workpermit.com - UK
... is a summary roundup of what is being said in newspapers throughout the UK regarding Home Office announcements this week about changes in immigration policy. ...

Visa Policies: Tackling Foreign Missions
This Day (subscription) - Apapa,Lagos,Nigeria
... Investigations at the United Kingdom (UK) immigration office was quite revealing. British Members of Parliament (MPs) who came to ...

Immigration service to track all UK visitors
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Everyone travelling to and from Britain will be counted in and out under a new crackdown on immigration, the home secretary, John Reid, announced today ...

Reid to spell out immigration service reform
Daily Mail - UK - UK
Home Secretary John Reid will publish his review of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND) which was at the centre of the foreign national prisoners ...

Reid brings back embarkation controls
Politics.co.uk - London,UK
... By 2008, everyone seeking a visa from an at ... country - those visitors most likely to overstay their visit ... idea" how many illegal immigrants remained in the UK. ...

Business warns over new immigration proposals
Financial Times - London,England,UK
... weaknesses in the Immigration and Nationality Directorate. ... workers are being used, and giving immigration officers a ... of this activity to the UK taxpayer while ...

UK plans immigration blitz
Gulf News - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
... yesterday. The raft of measures is designed to shake up the much-criticised Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND). Immigration ...

Crimestoppers illegal worker plan
BBC News - UK
... the reforms, there will be uniformed immigration officers at ... is a record of who has left the UK. ... be required to give evidence of nationality during contact ...

Reid will 'count every immigrant entering UK'
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
... The Home Secretary said recent events had highlighted "weaknesses" within the Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND), and that new rules would ...

Home Office to review Dzumbira's asylum cases
Zimbabwejournalists.com - Surrey,UK
... Many Zimbabweans who have claimed asylum in the UK and have come ... and corruption amid the "biggest shake-up" at its Immigration and Nationality Directorate. ...
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Reid: Reforms bring IND into 21st century
Politics.co.uk - London,UK
Home secretary John Reid has said reforms to the Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND ... who should no longer have the right to call the UK home" would ...

BRITAIN GETS A BORDER PATROL
Mirror.co.uk - London,UK
... The underfire Immigration and Nationality Directorate will double its budget to �280million by 2010 to pay for more officers, technology and raids on firms ...

Inquiry calls over 'out of control' immigration system
Daily Mail - UK - UK
... Zimbabwe-born Mr Dzumbira has worked at Lunar House, the Home Office's Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND) headquarters in Croydon, south London, for ...

Reid's key test on immigration
Yorkshire Post Today - Leeds,Yorkshire,UK
... to overhaul the calamitous Immigration and Nationality Directorate. ... labelled the IND's enforcement of immigration law as ... could attempt to enter the UK when the ...

Border control plans dismissed as 'gimmick'
Politics.co.uk - London,UK
... Reports suggest he will also pledge to double the funding to the Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND) from �140 million to �280 million within three ...

Inquiry launched into Home Office corruption claims
Politics.co.uk - London,UK
... to track down failed asylum seekers who remained in the UK. ... "The last reported incident of corruption at the Immigration and Nationality Directorate led to ...

Border-security force to be announced
Reuters.uk - UK
... of the force will be unveiled on Tuesday when Home Secretary John Reid is due to announce raft of reforms to the Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND ...

Reid to announce "border-control force"
InTheNews.co.uk - London,UK
... Reid is to announce plans to introduce the UK's first ever ... extensive shake-up of the government's beleaguered Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND ...

Will Government proposals turn employers into 'immigration ...
Workplace Law Network (subscription) - Cambridge,UK
... the way the Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND ... track asylum decisions, enforce our immigration law and ... concern about the number of UK employers who ...

UK plans moves to tackle immigration woes effectively
Hindustan Times - India
... Reid's vision' to improve the way Immigration and Nationality Directorate tackles immigration in the ... no longer have the right to call UK their home ...

Immigration service faces shake-up
ic SurreyOnline.co.uk - Surrey,England,UK
Passport control officers at ports and airports are to be given uniforms as part of a shake-up of the beleaguered Immigration and Nationality Directorate. ...

Reid announces new immigration crackdown
ePolitix - UK
... and that more failed asylum seekers were being removed from the UK. ... Ministers claim the move is supported by the Immigration and Nationality Directorate. ...

Uniformed border guards proposed
ic SurreyOnline.co.uk - Surrey,England,UK
They will be part of a massive shake-up of the beleaguered Immigration and Nationality Directorate that will be announced on Tuesday. ...

Shop an illegal immigrant now
UK Express - UK
... transform the chaotic Immigration and Nationality Directorate stretched ... the Government's continuing immigration fiasco ... genuinely supposed to be in the UK.".
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Britain to get new force to control borders
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
... of reforms to the Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND ... port police, customs officers and immigration officers, all ... to remain in the UK," the committee ...

Reid to reveal Home Office reforms
ePolitix - UK
... removals at the Immigration and Nationality Directorate told ... as cleaners at an immigration enforcement office ... estimated 570,000 foreigners illegally in the UK. ...

Reid to launch Home Office shake-up
ePolitix - UK
... give work to the estimated 570,000 foreigners illegally in the UK . ... This would include plans to hive off the Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND ...

Reid unveils major revamp of UK's immigration system
Scotsman - United Kingdom
JOHN REID was today unveiling a major shake-up of the UK immigration service as the first stage in a total ... The Immigration and Nationality Directorate will ...

Morning press briefing from 19 July 2006
10 Downing Street (press release) - UK
... was happening with the Immigration and Nationality Department (IND ... Put that the growth in immigration had also ... had both expressed concern that the UK had not ...

PCS: IND reform will let ministers pass the buck
Politics.co.uk - London,UK
The Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) has said plans to make the Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND) an executive agency will enable ...

Labour seeks to sweep Home Office problems under "a bureaucratic ...
Conservatives.com - UK
... result of the repeal of Conservative laws allowing the UK to send ... and not to strengthen our borders, is why the Immigration and Nationality Department was ...

New crackdown on failed asylum seekers
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
PLANS to make the Immigration and Nationality Directorate of ... as it emerged that there were between 400,000 and 450,000 failed asylum applicants in the UK. ...


 Spin, stunts and a system in chaos
Daily Mail - UK - UK
... in one day, three dismal examples of how this Government has lost control of our borders. Take the shambles at the Immigration and Nationality Directorate. ...

We must help end the sex slave trade
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... But cynics argue that the immigration and nationality department (IND) has only one target in its heads: to maximise the number of deportations from the UK. ...

Commentary: All spin and no action
Daily Mail - UK - UK
... As a former official at the Immigration and Nationality Directorate who blew the whistle on the Government's failure to apply its own rules to immigration ...

Reid to unveil Home Office shake-up
Politics.co.uk - London,UK
... The head of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND) was forced to admit he did not know how many illegal immigrants were in the UK, while the ...

Reid announces Home Office shake-up
Financial Times - London,England,UK
... The Immigration and Nationality Directorate, described as "not fit ... criminal justice system and next Tuesday on immigration. ... for an ID card system in the UK.

Reid unveils Home Office reform plans
Reuters.uk - UK
LONDON (Reuters) - The Immigration and Nationality Directorate will become a semi-independent agency from the Home Office under plans to reform the sprawling ...

REFUGEES DEPORTED IN 5YRS
Mirror.co.uk - London,UK
... Reid admitted for the first time the beleaguered Immigration and Nationality Directorate had ... estimates of the number of failed asylum seekers in the UK. ...

Reid unveils Home Office reforms
Reuters.uk - UK
Reid said the Immigration and Nationality Directorate would become a semi-independent agency under the Home Office reform plans. ...

PCS: Home office reform and capability reviews response
Politics.co.uk - London,UK
"Staff in the Home Office and its Immigration and Nationality Directorate are amongst the lowest paid in the civil service and have had to work against a ...

More tough talk from Labour is not enough
Conservatives.com - UK
... plans for uniformed immigration officers to man UK ports and ... Reid admitted to weaknesses in the Home Office's Immigration and Nationality Directorate, and ...

Time to see if John Reid is fit for purpose
Scotsman - United Kingdom
... bars to roam the UK's streets rather than their own countries has risen steadily. The admission by the head of his Immigration and Nationality Department that ...

Child Trafficking in the UK
OhmyNews International - South Korea
... The Nationality, Immigration, and Asylum Act of 2002 covered the offence of trafficking. ... it an offence to traffic into, within, and out of the UK, imposing a ...

Home secretary announces changes to Immigration and Nationality ...
PersonnelToday.com - UK
Home secretary John Reid has announced plans to transform the Immigration and Nationality Directorate to make the UK immigration system more effective. ...

 

 




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