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    UK revamping immigration policy following terror arrests

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    UK revamping immigration policy following terror arrests


    By Jim Kouri
    Monday, December 27, 2010

    While the overall structure of the United States’ student visa program is faulty to the point of being dangerous to U.S. national security, government officials in the United Kingdom are intent on overhauling their own system which has been abused repeatedly. U.S. officials would do well to follow the British visa model.

    Tougher entrance criteria, limits on work and an end to students staying in the United Kingdom to look for a job are just some of the changes proposed by Immigration Minister Damian Green as part of a major shake-up of the student visa system and other aspects of British immigration policy.

    This latest proposal to overhaul appears more pressing following the December 20 capture of 12 suspected terrorists. The suspects, Muslim males from Somalia aged between 17 and 28, were detained in London, Birmingham, Cardiff, and Trent and charged with suspicion of commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism in the United Kingdom, security officials reported last week.

    Several of the Somali men captured had entered Britain with student visas, although they had long since stopped attending classes, according to a British security specialist.

    Launching a public consultation on the reform of the student entry route to the UK of the Points Based System the Home Office also revealed that 41 percent of students coming through this route were studying below degree level courses. The Home Office Immigration minister, Damian Green, said, “I believe attracting talented students from abroad is vital to the UK but we must be more selective about who can come here and how long they can stay.â€
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    Re: UK revamping immigration policy following terror arrests

    Quote Originally Posted by AirborneSapper7
    While the overall structure of the United States’ student visa program is faulty to the point of being dangerous to U.S. national security, government officials in the United Kingdom are intent on overhauling their own system which has been abused repeatedly. U.S. officials would do well to follow the British visa model.

    Tougher entrance criteria, limits on work and an end to students staying in the United Kingdom to look for a job are just some of the changes proposed by Immigration Minister Damian Green as part of a major shake-up of the student visa system and other aspects of British immigration policy.
    I hope that it doesn't take captures of terrorists for us to realize what a good idea the British proposals are.

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