UK planning on ‘restricting visa applications from certain nationalities most likely to claim asylum’

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1. Some countries do this so it shouldn’t be an issue for the UK to do the same

2. If the job market is as bad as I hear I presume there is no need to grant any visas for unskilled people right now

3. Makes complete sense to me. If we are getting a large number of asylum seekers from these countries, then ‘very obviously’ these countries are dangerous and conducting mass persecution of their own population. We should be very careful in allowing people who are obviously on the right side of these clearly ‘brutal and oppressive’ regimes into the country, right?

4. When wasn’t this done 10 years ago. Tories were so soft on immigration.

5. Why do I doubt this? Labour and the conservatives have no intention of stopping immigration and if they did they would have done it by now.

   Granted, labour haven’t had the time yet but I would bet my bottom dollar that they won’t have by the end of their term.

6. With the job market in the shape it is, we need to be very strict on all unskilled visa applications.

   We should also be very strict with civil servant roles that offer “sponsorships” which is said not to occur but I’ve witnessed

7. Are they toughening up on immigration because Reform is getting closer?

8. This is one of those sensible ideas that could have a big impact and cost nothing

9. Does this impact visitor / tourist visas? The article didn’t mention anything, unless they’re in the same category of something mentioned.

10. Simply too late, and not enough is being done to stop (and reverse existing) mass immigration.

11. Interesting. So they’re saying that a lot of refugees from these places are coming here on legit visas and then claiming asylum? I wonder how many of their applications are accepted and on what basis they’re accepted and rejected?

    A country doesn’t have to be at war to be able to claim asylum. If you’re a journalist for instance trying to uncover government corruption, and the government is actively trying to kill you, then under international law you can claim asylum (quite reasonably so), but I wonder if these people are not being persecuted and essentially abusing the inefficiency with which we process our claims to get an extra year or two in the country on top of their student visas.

12. As a person with a Western European partner here on a visa who was concerned about them being swept up in any visa changes which shouldn’t really affect Europeans, I am relieved by this news. No reason to go after them, as Europeans (and other Anglosphere immigrants) are net contributors on average. I think labour know this to their credit.

    The blanket policies by the tories were mind boggling in their moronicness.

    But done right, these targeted changes will massively curb numbers.

13. This is what happens when you become relient on migrants doing unskilled / low paid jobs to keep the economy and certain sectors such as care homes going.

    This started over 30 years ago and the Tories under Boris put into overdrive as to make their mates happy because nobody loves paying the minimum than Directors / CEO’s of big multinational companies that are worth hundreds of millions, even billions.

    Unfortunately as much as people want it to, it can’t be fixed overnight.

    Entire sectors are completely dependent on migrant workers.

    Let us use the Care Sector as our example.

    In 2023 the Government granted over 350,000 health and Care Worker visas.

    The year previous it was 145,823.

    32% of health and care workers are taken up by Migrants.

    In 2023/24 the NHS and Local Authorities spent £23 billion on Adult Social Care with the costs due to increase by many billions over the next few years and even then it will not be enough.

    The reason why 32% of workers are migrants is because British people do not want to do that job which is understandable as it’s a bloody difficult job.

    You are going to significantly increase the pay and conditions to attract British People, so where is the money going to come from?

    The same problem exists in the NHS, Transport, Hospitality and Communications and IT.

14. Oh wow, what a ground-breaking new idea if only we had done this 25 years ago.

15. The UK needs significant immigration overhaul, and I’m saying this as a person who’s here on a temporary visa.

    The issue is that UKVI cares about one thing: Money. As long as you can pour thousands of pounds into the black void of admin fees, biometrics fees, expedited processing fees and IHS, especially work visas are laughably easy to get.

    Spouse visas require truly astronomical documentation in comparison (mine was 200+ pages, and I’m a simple case) but even then that’s just due to insane paranoia about sham relationships.

    Realistically, the system needs to add more qualitative requirements. Denmark is a good example – require a certain level of education, or a higher level of English (A1 for spousal visas is a fucking joke), require a history of employment in your home country, require more spacious accommodation, hell, you can even require civic engagement for extensions.

    All of these tools are freely available, yet the only thing that’s done is to up the income requirements and up the fees. It’s incredibly short-sighted.

16. It’s kind of mad we don’t adjust how easy it is to get a visa by how well citizens from that country integrate. 

    There’s vast disparities in net economic cost and crime rate between countries expats come from. 

17. Yes please and do it for the 7-8 at the top of crime lists.

18. This is the cause of the big rise in numbers, not the small boats. Not just asylum seekers, students disappearing after getting here. The boats make better headlines though.

19. I’m British Pakistani. 99.9% of asylum seekers from Pakistan are going to be economic migrants pulling a fast one. 

    The only real asylum seekers are likely to be educated middle class people who have spoken up against the current military dictators and are facing imprisonment and torture. If they’re liked to the opposition PTI party and have a decent political standing or social media presence which is anti dictatorship – they’re likely real asylum seekers.

20. The BBC article says:

    > *“Ministers believe there is a particular problem with those who come to the UK legally on work or study visas and then lodge a claim for asylum – which if granted, would allow them to stay in the country permanently.”*

    Hold on – what? Are we both going after people who claim asylum after entering the UK *illegally* (e.g. via the small boats) but also going after people who claim asylum after entering the UK **legally** on work/study visas? Is this really just an action against asylum seekers full stop?

21. I look forward to this becoming a much bigger issue, being dragged through the courts just to implement it.

22. I work in finance for several Universities. What some one these nationalites do is borrow money from their village to meet the financial requirment to get a visa. Once they arrive they claim asylum and request for a refund. Then they get very and angry and aggressive when we can not issue any refunds for their tuition fees, even though its very clear in the terms and conditions, no refunds on their first semester tuition once they arrive or obtain a visa. They even have pretend lawyers trying to sue for not giving them a refund.

23. We need to, as a country, stop allowing applications for asylum from the LGB ‘community’ – the whole subject of sexuality and resulting oppression would be very hard to verify and is massively open to abuse.

24. Syrian (or other Islamic majority nations) Christians and other minorities allowed? ❤️

25. So I thought the whole point of a visa was to ensure people don’t stay? Weird.

26. Unskilled job = minimum wage pay = imported labour = low prices for voters

    But
    Unskilled job = high minimum pay = no imported labour = high prices for voters

    This is what it all comes down to. But the balance is that British people don’t want to do backbreaking work without being highly compensated.

27. Must be fake news peddled by Labour after their defeat. It wont be enforced. There is nothing called restriction process in HomeOffice. Its impossible to build one unless there is a blanket ban.

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