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Scottish immigration scheme

Post by rella » Tue Jul 25, 2006 12:20 am

I apologize if this is being discussed elsewhere, because I haven't been able to find anything about this searching the archives.

This article was in the Scotsman today.

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=348652006

It states that Tier 1 applicants can get ILR after two years of living in Scotland. Is the article based on an obsolete proposal or is this actually being implemented? And if HSMP holders now living in England move to Scotland, will they have to completely reapply from scratch or is there some way of becoming part of the programme with an existing HSMP?

Thanks for any insight about this.
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Post by neilroy » Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:34 am

Old article dated 8th March. The minister in no longer in the post. I have already discussed this issue in the forum.
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Post by Dawie » Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:00 am

I don't see how this would have worked in practise, anyway. Having different sets of immigration rules for England and Scotland would not work without setting up border and immigration controls between the 2 home nations. I suspect this been quietly swept under the carpet not only due to Charles Clarkes demise but also because of the impracticalities involved.
In a few years time we'll look back on immigration control like we look back on American prohibition in the thirties - futile and counter-productive.
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Post by rella » Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:31 pm

Sorry about that. I was just sent the article and didn't see the date at the bottom, though I knew Clark was history -- hence the confusion.

Five years to ILR, it is....
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