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| Diane Abbott to announce Labour plans to overhaul visa policy | Diane Abbott to announce Labour plans to overhaul visa policy |
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| The shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, is set to announce Labour’s vision for a fairer post-Brexit immigration system including a simplified visa regime for foreign workers. | The shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, is set to announce Labour’s vision for a fairer post-Brexit immigration system including a simplified visa regime for foreign workers. |
| In a speech at Portcullis House in Westminster on Thursday, Abbott will unveil proposals to overhaul the work visa policy in the UK, which is currently structured with a range of tiers reflecting different employment categories. | In a speech at Portcullis House in Westminster on Thursday, Abbott will unveil proposals to overhaul the work visa policy in the UK, which is currently structured with a range of tiers reflecting different employment categories. |
| The proposed regime under a Labour government would offer rights of work, residency and accelerated citizenship to a range of professions, workers and those creating employment who want to come here based on the needs of the economy. | |
| “We have economic needs that dictate we need migrants, to help tackle skills and labour shortages,” Abbott will say. | “We have economic needs that dictate we need migrants, to help tackle skills and labour shortages,” Abbott will say. |
| “I am announcing that Labour in government will establish a completely reformed work visa policy. This policy will sit alongside the existing visas for business trips, students, visitors and tourists. | “I am announcing that Labour in government will establish a completely reformed work visa policy. This policy will sit alongside the existing visas for business trips, students, visitors and tourists. |
| “We will avoid the idiocy of preventing doctors and nurses from coming here to take up job offers. Under our new work visa system, anyone with specified bona fide skills can come here to work. | “We will avoid the idiocy of preventing doctors and nurses from coming here to take up job offers. Under our new work visa system, anyone with specified bona fide skills can come here to work. |
| “The new, integrated work visa allows us to offer rights of work and residency and accelerated citizenship to a range of professions, workers and those creating employment who want to come here. It will be available to all those we need to come here, whether it is doctors, or scientists, or care workers. | “The new, integrated work visa allows us to offer rights of work and residency and accelerated citizenship to a range of professions, workers and those creating employment who want to come here. It will be available to all those we need to come here, whether it is doctors, or scientists, or care workers. |
| “This will apply across a range of jobs, skills and professions. People coming to take up specific job offers, where it can be shown that those jobs cannot be filled by workers already resident here, will be able to come here.” | “This will apply across a range of jobs, skills and professions. People coming to take up specific job offers, where it can be shown that those jobs cannot be filled by workers already resident here, will be able to come here.” |
| Abbott’s speech comes ahead of a key report from the migration advisory committee, to be published on Tuesday, on the impact of EU migration on the British labour market. It is expected to inform the government’s post-Brexit immigration policy, with ministers delaying the publication of an immigration white paper until its publication. | Abbott’s speech comes ahead of a key report from the migration advisory committee, to be published on Tuesday, on the impact of EU migration on the British labour market. It is expected to inform the government’s post-Brexit immigration policy, with ministers delaying the publication of an immigration white paper until its publication. |
| The shadow home secretary will repeat her criticism of the government’s role in the Windrush scandal, in which British residents were wrongly targeted by the Tories’ ‘hostile environment’ policy and in some cases were detained and deported. She will also reiterate Labour plans to rip up the 2014 Immigration Act, in which many of the hostile-environment policies are enshrined in law. | The shadow home secretary will repeat her criticism of the government’s role in the Windrush scandal, in which British residents were wrongly targeted by the Tories’ ‘hostile environment’ policy and in some cases were detained and deported. She will also reiterate Labour plans to rip up the 2014 Immigration Act, in which many of the hostile-environment policies are enshrined in law. |
| There are three layers of state-enforced or enforceable departures of immigrants from the UK: deportations, administrative removals and voluntary departures. | There are three layers of state-enforced or enforceable departures of immigrants from the UK: deportations, administrative removals and voluntary departures. |
| Deportations apply to people and their children whose removal is deemed 'conducive to the public good' by the home secretary. They can also be recommended by a court. | Deportations apply to people and their children whose removal is deemed 'conducive to the public good' by the home secretary. They can also be recommended by a court. |
| Administrative removals refer to cases involving the enforced removal of non-citizens who have either entered the country illegally, outstayed a visa, or violated the conditions of their leave to remain. | Administrative removals refer to cases involving the enforced removal of non-citizens who have either entered the country illegally, outstayed a visa, or violated the conditions of their leave to remain. |
| Voluntary departures are people against whom enforced removal has been initiated; the term 'voluntary' simply describes how they leave. There are three sub-categories: | Voluntary departures are people against whom enforced removal has been initiated; the term 'voluntary' simply describes how they leave. There are three sub-categories: |
| a) Those who depart via assisted voluntary return schemes. | a) Those who depart via assisted voluntary return schemes. |
| b) Those who make their own travel arrangements and tell the authorities. | b) Those who make their own travel arrangements and tell the authorities. |
| c) Those who leave without notifying the government. | c) Those who leave without notifying the government. |
| Abbott will also pledge to end “rip-off” Home Office fees in visa and immigration cases, as highlighted by the Guardian, including the controversial cost of registration fees for children. Registration is the process where someone who has an existing right to British citizenship applies to obtain it. It costs £1,012 to register under-18s, up from £500 in 2011. In 2014, discounts for a second or additional child were scrapped. | Abbott will also pledge to end “rip-off” Home Office fees in visa and immigration cases, as highlighted by the Guardian, including the controversial cost of registration fees for children. Registration is the process where someone who has an existing right to British citizenship applies to obtain it. It costs £1,012 to register under-18s, up from £500 in 2011. In 2014, discounts for a second or additional child were scrapped. |
| “Exorbitant charges hit the poor and those with larger families the hardest,” Abbott will say. “It is discriminatory and unjustifiable. As people come here to work, they pay taxes. They already make a contribution … Labour will end this rip-off. Charges will be reviewed so that they closer reflect the actual cost.” | “Exorbitant charges hit the poor and those with larger families the hardest,” Abbott will say. “It is discriminatory and unjustifiable. As people come here to work, they pay taxes. They already make a contribution … Labour will end this rip-off. Charges will be reviewed so that they closer reflect the actual cost.” |
| The shadow home secretary will also pledge to remove illegal immigrants more efficiently but shift the focus to preventing illegal migrants arriving in the UK by boosting the number of Border Force officers. | The shadow home secretary will also pledge to remove illegal immigrants more efficiently but shift the focus to preventing illegal migrants arriving in the UK by boosting the number of Border Force officers. |
| On the government’s target to reduce net migration to the tens of thousands, a target it has consistently failed to meet since 2010, Abbott will comment: “When they continually fail to meet their target, and without ever showing how they will meet it, then we are entitled to be a little jaundiced about its real purpose. But when they continue to suggest it is all the fault of EU migration, when non-EU migration – the bit they do control – alone is more than double the total target, we are entitled to call it out.” | On the government’s target to reduce net migration to the tens of thousands, a target it has consistently failed to meet since 2010, Abbott will comment: “When they continually fail to meet their target, and without ever showing how they will meet it, then we are entitled to be a little jaundiced about its real purpose. But when they continue to suggest it is all the fault of EU migration, when non-EU migration – the bit they do control – alone is more than double the total target, we are entitled to call it out.” |
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