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Title: India warns over UK plan to make visitors pay £3,000 bond
Source: BBC
URL Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23044324
Published: Jun 25, 2013
Author: BBC News
Post Date: 2013-06-26 05:02:33 by scrapper2
Keywords: UK illegal immigration deterra
Views: 18

Indian business leaders have criticised plans to make visitors pay a £3,000 "security bond" to enter the UK.

The idea, to be piloted from November, is aimed at deterring people from "high risk" countries staying in the UK once their short-term visas expire.

Under the plan, they would forfeit the money unless they left when required.

The Confederation of Indian Industry said it was "highly discriminatory" but Home Secretary Theresa May defended the "selective" approach to migration.

Indian business leaders have criticised plans to make visitors pay a £3,000 "security bond" to enter the UK.

The idea, to be piloted from November, is aimed at deterring people from "high risk" countries staying in the UK once their short-term visas expire.

Under the plan, they would forfeit the money unless they left when required.

The Confederation of Indian Industry said it was "highly discriminatory" but Home Secretary Theresa May defended the "selective" approach to migration.

"It strongly feels that such blanket rules for visas will negatively affect not only businesses, especially small businesses, it will also further bring down the number of students going to UK for higher studies and affect the tourism inflow from India to UK." 'Political expediency'

Nigerian politicians have also criticised the plan as "unacceptable" and pledged to stand up for their country's interests.

"They should realise that it is not in the best interests of the UK," said Nnenna Elendu-Ukeje, who chairs the foreign affairs committee in the country's House of Representatives.

"It is contrary to the commitment made to our president by David Cameron during their last meeting.

"We believe it is for political reasons ahead of a general election. We seek that our long historical relationship should take precedence over political expediency."

The Home Office said the details of the pilot scheme had yet to be finalised and the countries yet to be selected. 'Intelligence-led'

But Mrs May said the move was "the next step in making sure our immigration system is more selective".

"In the long run we're interested in a system of bonds that deters overstaying and recovers costs if a foreign national has used our public services," she said.

"We're planning a pilot that focuses on overstayers and examines a couple of different ways of applying bonds.

"The pilot will apply to visitor visas, but if the scheme is successful we'd like to be able to apply it on an intelligence-led basis on any visa route and any country."

A No 10 spokesman said the government was "looking at ways of deterring overstaying and bonds are an option".

Indian students are already unhappy about new rules requiring graduates to find a job earning at least £20,000 to be able to remain in the UK once their studies end. Net migration

The Conservatives have set a target for reducing net migration - the differences between the number of people entering the country and those leaving - to less than 100,000 by 2015.

Figures published last month showed net migration fell in the year to September 2012 from 242,000 to 153,000.

The Liberal Democrats and Labour have also set out their thinking on how immigration controls can be tightened, in response to what they say legitimate public concerns about migrants' impact on the economy and society in the past decade.

In a speech earlier this year, Mr Clegg said the security bond was a "useful tool" that, if implemented fairly and properly targeted, could make the immigration system work more efficiently.

The idea was floated several times by the previous Labour government but never implemented after protests at the turn of the century against plans for bonds of £3,000 and £10,000 being brought in.

Home Affairs Committee chairman Keith Vaz said the plan sent the "wrong message" to the countries concerned and could potentially also "alienate settled communities" in the UK.

"There are a number of holes in the home secretary's pilot," the Labour MP said.

"She said she wants to deter overstayers, yet with the mess that is e-borders there is currently no way to monitor if people actually leave the country. The bond level of £3,000 is completely unrealistic. If somebody was determined to work here illegally this could be earned back in a matter of months."

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