which expired in December 2008 have left
The UK Border Agency has not done enough to ensure that an estimated 181,000
migrant workers and students whose visas have expired since December 2008 have
actually left the country, MPs say.
The report by the Commons public accounts committee says UKBA has so little
grip on the problem that it cannot even verify the 181,000 estimate, and does
not try to enforce the duty of employers to ensure that the people they
recruit from abroad leave the country when their visa expires.
The criticism comes as the Home Office has "clarified" its policies of capping
the number of skilled migrant workers and reforming student visas to reduce
net migration "from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands".
The latest Home Office business plan now says that reducing net migration will
be the "anticipated" result of introducing the migrant cap "and other
policies", rather than its direct outcome.
As far as student visas reforms are concerned ? which the home secretary,
Theresa May, has predicted will reduce net migration by up to 80,000 ...
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