I know this sounds like robot from Star Wars but unfortunately it is not so cool.  Instead it is down right uncool and a really low stunt by what is clearly an embattled and confused Boarders Agency where the Minister Liam Bryant actually believes and has acted upon the believe he is doing the UK a favour by removing a piece of protection that allows families to stay together.

It infuriates me a family may now possibly be separated if one person is a non E.U national who overstayed in the UK.  With the new restrictions on marriage it is not impossible or even unusual for two young people to fall in love settled down and start a family as they want to be together.

The removal of DP3/96 mean that as the young couple mature and their children grow a little older they are no longer able to declare their love in the secure understanding they will be allowed to remain in the UK as a family even though they have been together for several years and have Children they are now at the mercy of Some Civil Servants to decide on their future.  A Civil Servant who does not have the resource or authority to ever get to know the family.

This has been done in the name of “tighter Immigration Control” that is not tighter Immigration control but the worst form of State interference.  As you know I am passionate about Immigration and even after nearly 20 years I have sleepless nights praying for all those people who are going to effected by some idiots idea of progress.

Our Office in India are still finding the new tier 1 visas difficult to deal with while in Canada the UK Visa section has no such issues dealing with tier 1 in Canada.  While in the UK tier 1is becoming another headache for employers and much needed skilled workers alike.