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Migrants can enter Britain in 73 ways

By Ben Leapman, Home Affairs Correspondent
Last Updated: 2:25am GMT 05/11/2007

Immigrants can choose from a confusing range of 73 Government schemes allowing them to live and work in Britain. The full array of legal routes for non-European migrants can be revealed for the first time today in a list disclosed by the Home Office.

Its publication follows a bruising week for Labour, in which a minister had to apologise for getting his figures wrong and town hall chiefs complained that they were struggling to cope with a record influx.

David Cameron, the Conservative leader, renewed his call for a cap on immigration and was praised by Trevor Phillips, the chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, for trying to “deracialiseâ€