01-04-2007, 10:53 AM
Although there doesn't seem to be much interest on the site from UK immigrants (maybe most people have already got ILR or citizenship) there are big cost implications for those of us who don't. There are campaigns building - here is an extract from the UK Resident site:
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As you must know, the IND have increased fees for ILR (Permanent Residence) & Naturalisation (Citizenship) phenomenally. This is nothing but a political stunt that hopes to dissuade people from applying for residence and making the immigration statistics look better. The govt will also be seen as doing something to control immigration . The truth is this prohibitively penalises legal and law abiding migrants and does nothing to prevent illegal migrants from misusing the system. We have an option to make our voices heards. Registering your support at the Prime Ministers e-petition site will let us have a response and make them aware of our concerns. The link appears below.
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Immigration-Fees/
Every adult resident is eligible to register support, so if your partner has a unique mail Id and would like to support, please make sure they do so as well.
To make our campaign take off we need as much support as we can. So please forward this info to -
1) Any of your friends that will be affected by the new fee structure
2) Any of your friends that have already been through ILR & naturalisation as they will aprreciate our concerns
3) Any of your friends that are British Citizens who see through this gimmick and are willing to support us Please make sure you do not spam people unknown to you.
Administrators, could I make a request to post this as a sticky ?
Thanks & regards,
John T S
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Give it support if you're interested.
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As you must know, the IND have increased fees for ILR (Permanent Residence) & Naturalisation (Citizenship) phenomenally. This is nothing but a political stunt that hopes to dissuade people from applying for residence and making the immigration statistics look better. The govt will also be seen as doing something to control immigration . The truth is this prohibitively penalises legal and law abiding migrants and does nothing to prevent illegal migrants from misusing the system. We have an option to make our voices heards. Registering your support at the Prime Ministers e-petition site will let us have a response and make them aware of our concerns. The link appears below.
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Immigration-Fees/
Every adult resident is eligible to register support, so if your partner has a unique mail Id and would like to support, please make sure they do so as well.
To make our campaign take off we need as much support as we can. So please forward this info to -
1) Any of your friends that will be affected by the new fee structure
2) Any of your friends that have already been through ILR & naturalisation as they will aprreciate our concerns
3) Any of your friends that are British Citizens who see through this gimmick and are willing to support us Please make sure you do not spam people unknown to you.
Administrators, could I make a request to post this as a sticky ?
Thanks & regards,
John T S
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Give it support if you're interested.