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		<title>Detroit terrorist attack impacts on UK student visas</title>
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		<dc:creator>Paul Gooch</dc:creator>
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British Home Secretary Alan Johnson is introducing more stringent requirements, including the requirement that visa applicants should be able to speak basic English. Also, they will not be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>immigration points system</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK government is now using a new system based on credits or `points&#8217; to decide which workers from outside the EC (European Union) can immigrate into Britain
Potential immigrants will be graded according to their age, education, work experience and knowledge of English.
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		<title>Visa system changes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gooch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK visa system will be changed in several ways this year
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		<title>`Hot&#8217; immigration rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Immigration restrictions mean that many of Britain&#8217;s Indian restaurants are having to `curry on&#8217; without genuine Indian waiters.
Most of the `Indian&#8217; restaurants in Britain are owned and staffed by people from Bangladesh rather than from India, but it&#8217;s been more difficult for Bangladeshis to emigrate to Britain to work in Indian restaurants since new immigration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corruption changes visa requirements</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK looks set to change the visa requirements visitors to Britain from South Africa this year because of corruption.
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visitors from countries outside the EU may only be allowed to stay in the UK for only three months instead of six months, according to the British Home Office, which is responsible for controlling immigration to the UK.
The Home Office is also consulting opinions on whether to charge some British families a deposit of up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cancer patient deported</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The chief of the British immigration agency defended the decision to deport a cancer sufferer from Ghana back to her country by insisting that there were hundreds of similar cases each year.
Lin Homer, the chief executive of the Borders and Immigration Agency, told MPs that the courts had frequently ruled that it did not constitute [...]]]></description>
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