Recently, few Indians have been arrested in the United Kingdom for multiple immigration offences. The UK Immigration took the Indian citizens, including twelve men and a woman into custody, while they were caught during the seizure of a Heathrow-based freight warehouse and residences in Hayes and South hall. They all are alleged with working illegally in Britain.

While conducting some inspections on the freight as part of the seizure of the Scanwell Freight Services, the immigration officials went on to interview its staff, in order to determine whether they are legally allowed to work in the UK or not. Eight Indians were found guilty of immigration offences at the time. The officials warned the freight company that it could be required to pay fine of up to 90,000 pounds for employing the eight people.

Following the arrests in the warehouse, searches were conducted at some residences as well in Hayes and South hall, where the officials arrested five more Indians and a South African man, guilty of similar offences. Seven accused amongst the fourteen are now in immigration detention. The UK Immigration is considering deportation of these illegal workers from the UK.

The UK Immigration is taking illegal working of the overseas workers as a serious concern. Because, this type of activities is likely to have an adverse effect on the local communities, since the foreign workers often take away the jobs from the local workers who genuinely deserve the jobs!

After legally fighting to get an entry into the UK, American Rapper Snoop Dogg has finally won the battle and is now eligible to get an entry into the UK premises. The popular star was struggling to gain entry into the premises since the last three years.

Snoop Dogg, alas, Calvin Broadus, was officially banned in the year 2006 when he was involved in a fight at London’s Heathrow Airport. As a result, he had to succumb to the wrath of Immigration official and face a ban regarding an entry into the UK.

Since then, Snoop came out with a legal challenge, asking famous personalities like David Beckham to come out in his favor and help him overturn the ban. As a result, he finally managed to get out of the ban in the year 2008.

The wrath of government officials again brought the ban into existence when they took the case to the Court of Appeal where it was confirmed that the judge who overturned the decision may have misunderstood the case.

Unsatisfied with the decision, Snoop took the case to UK Asylum and Immigration Tribunal, where he managed to grab success in his arms. He tasted success, courtesy his clean background, his work as a football coach and his tabloid appearance on family-friendly programs!

It was finally decided that the Immigration officials were wrong to bar his entry into the UK premises. Reports say that the Home Office is not much pleased with the decision but Snoop is surely a happy man on the earth!

Reports from the Office for National Statistics are depicting that immigration in the UK is falling at a fast pace. Applicants from Eastern and Central Europe have decreased by a huge margin.

According to UK Immigration, following are the observed statistics:

• Immigrants coming from Eastern Europeans to gain employment in the UK fell to 28,495 in 2009. The number was 30,600 in the year 2008 and 52,765 in 2007. The figures clearly show a huge decline in the number of workers coming from Eastern Europe.
• UK immigration in totality saw more incoming immigrants as compared to those leaving on an annual basis. But the overall UK immigration saw a decline in the quantity. It was 518,000 in 2009 while the quantity was on a high in 2008, taking the figures to 531000.
• Talking about Asylum applications, a slowdown of 30% was noticed in 2009 as compared to 2008. As a result of fewer applications, the number of removals from Britain has declined.

According to Immigration Minister Phil Woolas, net Immigration is down and UK borders have never been as strong as they are now, as seen from the results. He went on to say that the new PBS have granted ample control over immigrants, ensuring the entry of only those legal migrants who are needed in the UK.

In addition, issuance of ID Cards and fining employers who recruit illegal employees are some of the facets that would keep a strict check on Illegal Immigration.

Australian politician Pauline Hanson’s decision to come to Britain has been acknowledged by the British Politician Nick Griffin, applauding that she would serve as a good addition to the country.

The BNP Leader said that she is welcome to play her part in political issues, a chance to restart her career all over again! Earlier, she was reported saying that she has had enough of the Aussie land, which lack ample opportunities and now wants to say goodbye to it forever!

Mr. Griffin went on to elaborate that the Aussie politician should choose her new home in a careful manner as UK too is coming in the category of one of the over-crowded places to live in! He offered a bit of advice and strongly recommended that the politician should stay away from inner London too.

Coming back to the political issues, the BNP Leader said that his party has noticed her career graph and hope that she would contact their party very soon. Rest, she should decide on these political issues after moving to Britain.

He said that he felt sorry for the Aussie politician because she has been forced to leave her nation, but she would NOT BE A SPONGER! Rather she would be applauded as an addition to the UK economy!

Earlier, Pauline Hanson made announcements to sell her million-dollar property in Coleyville and leave the Aussie country.

According to a recent news piece, Immigration experts in Punjab have ensured that prospective students (especially from North India) should not think much about the ban implemented on applications by the UK government as well as the recent racial attacks in Australia.

The immigration experts went on to say that the government of Britain will soon approve student visa application from 22 February onwards. That means that prospective students would be able to file applications to study in the UK in accordance with their preference levels.

Those applicants, who have the right documents, genuine reasons and apply via legal procedures, never suffer any rejections from the Immigration officials. Therefore, it is mandatory that applicants must apply through genuine path, without deviating from legal practices.

The experts believe that the applicants who reach the foreign countries for genuine reasons never suffer, but the ones who intend to go for PR via the path of study visa end up being in trouble.

Therefore, it is advised that parents should send their children to foreign countries along with legal documents. They should not intend to settle down on a permanent basis and choose experienced Immigration consultants to ease out the Immigration procedure.

“Right immigration advice” is the path towards a successful Immigration and a prosperous future in the desired country of your choice!

According to a report by Daily Mirror, Britain is making plans to educate the migrants coming to its country on the aspect of queuing in a proper manner so that they can learn to integrate well into the society! It means that the newcomers have to learn the art of queuing in various places, including buses to sandwiches to a cup of tea, to name a few.

Phil Woolas, Immigration Minister, also confirmed that UK community faces a lot of problems courtesy the overseas immigrants who fail to understand the concept of queues and head on towards the front, breaking all the rules. This may be prevalent in their culture but not in the culture of Britain.

Woolas went on to say that this pushing and pulling in queues cause a lot of resentment. He said that one of the most vital facets which bind the country together is taking one’s turn! Therefore, it becomes mandatory for the foreigners to understand the concept of queuing in order to adapt in accordance with the society. It is for the betterment of everyone in the society!

The Minister said that the idea of educating the foreigners on the issue of queuing has been given a lot of emphasis as the step would ensure that immigrants would understand the importance of accommodating well into a society. The step is vital from the point of view of British Sense of fair play too!

The implementation would surely create a feeling of unity amongst the migrants as well as the residents of the UK!

According to reports in Women’s Day, Pauline Hanson, former anti-immigration politician of Oz land, is moving towards the UK, stating that she had enough of living in the land of Kangaroos and the same is no longer decked with opportunities too!

The lady at the age of 56 is pretty sure that she wants to move to the UK and confirms that its goodbye forever! She went on to say that she needs contentment in her life. Her father was born in UK before moving to Australia, which gives her the right to stay in UK. The former leader of One Nation Party aims for attaining peace in Britain!

Various politicians have different views on this step taken by Ms Hanson. Opposition Leader Tony Abbott believes that he was not very happy with her plans but at end of the day it’s her decision.

Ms Hanson got popular during the era of 1990s; when she flaunted her anti-immigration policies, but went on to lose her seat in the year 1998. Her failure in Queensland state election last year was justified by her as a result of filthy photographs taken by her ex-boyfriend that actually turned out to be photographs of some other personality!

It is a well known fact that Ms Hanson has always remain in the circle of controversies throughout her political period of 14 years so far. It was in the year 2003, when the lady was convicted of electoral fraud and was jailed for a span of three years. She went on to announce the end of her political career in the year 2004. Contrary to her announcement, she stood up again but failed to get ample votes.

Martin Ferguson, Australian Tourism Minister, in his recent interview with IANS, said that Indian economy is applauded as the tenth biggest economy of the world. In addition, the nation is facing tremendous growth period, an aspect that would surely generate opportunities for masses who are interested in the “tourism” aspect!

Despite the recent spate of the racial attacks, Oz is intending to have more Indian tourists, captivating on the 11.9 percent jump in the inflow of visitors last year. The minister said that despite the recession, Australia got a good inflow of visitors last year. According to the statistics, 120,500 Indian tourists came to Australia last year. The stats point out an increase of 11.9% as compared to 2007-08.

The Minister said that Aussie as a country is gradually becoming as an applauded and prospective travel destination as compared to other places like Britain and North America. The main reason as to why Aussie is emerging as a major attraction is because it offers a wide range of adventure activities, he further added

Ferguson said that people of all genres come to Australia. Some spend a fortnight here, stay in luxury hotels, visit some destinations like Sydney and look for adventurous activities! Also, in attempt to lure other Indian tourists, Australia would be coming out with various attractive campaigns with airlines companies, in order to provide competitive travel packages.

Also, keeping in mind the popularity of Internet, the Tourism Australia website is getting all ready to serve its global target audience in the best way possible, the Minister later said.

Creation of more than 100,000 jobs in Australia in the last three months has allowed the country to collapse its unemployment rate by a huge margin. Stats say that Aussie now has an unemployment rate of 5.7 percent as compared to 6.5 and 7.8 in New Zealand and Britain respectively.

Victoria has shown a massive increase in the number of jobs available in the province. Stats proved that Victoria showed a further increase of 37,900 full-time workers amid the time period of October and November. It means that an average of 1200 new jobs was created every day! In addition, Victoria has been applauded for showing the highest jobs growth as compared to any other state.

Coming to the stats of other countries, NSW grabbed an additional 11,800 jobs amid the time frame of October and November. Also, Queensland has an unemployment rate of 6.1 while NSW has 5.98. The facts clearly show that Australia is turning out to be a gold mine, for prospective employees to dig in for more jobs every single time.

But some people feel that the stats are pointing out in an adverse direction. Shadow treasurer Joe Hockey feels that it is a warning and think that it is the time “One must stop spending so much money and re-allocate the same to other places like hospitals.” The cure for this, as suggested by him, is to stop putting upward pressure on interest rates and concentrate of taking the country out of debts.

After two more Indians, aged 20 and 22, were attacked in Australia on 26th January, the Oz police arrested five people, hence proving their intentions to take quick actions against the culprits.

The Australia government has shown its concern for the recent spate of racial issues and has taken ample measures to stop them. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s nephew, Van Thanh Rudd, recently took part in a protest in opposition to all these incidents happening against the Indians.

Immigration minister Chris Evans condemned these attacks and said that a bunch of idiots are responsible for executing these attacks on Indians.

Despite all these incidents, statistics point out towards the direction that India is the third most represented country when it comes to people getting citizenship in Australia. Other two countries are Britain and China.

An Indian, Banaisha, who recently took an oath at a Citizenship ceremony in Australia, was found saying that neither she nor any of her relatives have experienced any racial attacks so far, reports by HT (http://www.hindustantimes.com/rssfeed/world/Despite-assaults-Indians-queue-up-for-citizenship/Article1-502087.aspx) confirmed the statement.

In another story (http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/newest-citizens-unfazed-by-racist-attacks/story-e6frg6nf-1225823755553), new Australian citizens Suresh and Jyoti, the couple who arrived in Australia five years ago, said that they never experienced any attacks of racial nature ever in the country. The couple, along with their daughters, came to take part in the citizenship ceremony and cleared that they never felt threatened in Australia.

Evans welcomed these new citizens and marked Australia Day in a grand style!