Please sign e-petition against Visa Fees and share

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/49581

Discriminatory indirect taxation on immigrant taxpayers through excessive visa fees should be stopped

Responsible department: Home Office

Certain types of visas are charged obscene levels of processing fees that are set several times above the actual cost of processing them. The affected visa holders are mostly higher rate and additional rate taxpayers (economic migrants) who already make significant income tax contributions.

1. Migrant taxpayers do not benefit any more from the immigration system than UK nationals.
2. Visa fees cannot be determined subjectively as is the case.
3. A discriminatory disguised supplementary tax on migrants cannot be imposed in the form of excessive visa fees.
4. Fees charged above cost are a secondary & invisible form of immigration control which is unethical.
5. "Taxpaying" migrants should not be penalized through above-cost fees, for choosing to make the UK their home under an existing government policy.

Charge all visas no more than actual cost. If certain visas should be charged below cost as a result of government policy, the rest should only be made up by general taxation.

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/49581

Thanks for everyone who have signed. The count is now 84, which is good. Those who haven't signed, please do, it affects all of us.

Please also sign again for each of your family members if you have signed just once.

Thanks RAM for this struggle.
i wish if everyone fight like you
i am trying to send this post where ever i can but most of them don't care...... that's why today we are here away from our families,

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Thanks guys, the petition has now reached nearly 350 signatures. Please keep it alive by circulating the message to all.