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UK visa appeal for International Removals

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010

It has been revealed today that appealing a rejected UK visa application will now incur a fee.

Appealing any applications for leave to remain, leave to enter or for changing a UK visa will now incur a charge between £60 and £250.

People who qualify for legal aid, people receiving asylum support and applicants who are in the asylum “detained fast track” process will be excluded from charges.

And there will be no charges for deportation, revocation of leave and deprivation of citizenship or right of abode appeals.

Other exceptional circumstances may also be eligible for exemption.

The charges will be payable regardless of the outcome of the UK immigration appeal and the measure is intended to reduce by 25 per cent the running costs of the UK immigration appeals system; whichcost the taxpayer £115 million last year.

 Jonathan Djanogly, under secretary of state at the Ministry of Justice, defended the new charge saying it is reasonable to ask non-UK citizens appealing against some categories of immigration and asylum.

The move has received stiff opposition from the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, which stated: “The cost of the immigration appeals system is in no small part a product of the poor quality of decision making by the UK Border Agency… applicants should not be penalised for this particularly given that their appeals will often concern matters of life and death and other fundamental rights.”

There is currently no fee for lodging a UK immigration appeal.

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British travel industry boosted by ‘packing up and adventuring out’

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

When action packed adventurers spring to mind the words students or young hippies usually spring to mind but it seems a new wild pack are in town.

The over-50s are boosting the British travel industry with ‘grey gap years’, thanks to their desire to seek for adventure and having  time and money on their hands.

In what has been a badly hit year in the tourism sector due to the credit crunch recession and volcanic ash chaos, sunshine is on the horizon with Saga Travel Company experiencing sales up by 300% to 400% over the past years, the company says.

Shearings Holidays launched a collection of worldwide tours aimed at the over-50s this summer and Get Travelling has unveiled a range of adventure tours for over-50s on its new get-lost.co.uk website.

STA Travel is now targeting the over-50s with its new business venture, Bridge the World, rather than the conventional students and young travellers.

John Constable, STA’s group manager, says: “A third of them will take a long-haul holiday next year. When they were 20, the gap year did not exist. That demand is there.”

“We found that we were losing our customers because, as soon as people start to have a family, the type of trip we arrange becomes less relevant for them. Bridge the World is somewhere that an STA customer can migrate to,” he added.

The company plans to take 50,000 passengers on “grey gap years” in 2011.

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Majority of employees would emigrate to improve health and wellbeing

Tuesday, October 12th, 2010

Over 75 per cent of employees would consider moving abroad to help improve their health and well being, according to new research from Aviva UK Health.

Research found that around 40 per cent of UK workers would move abroad to improve their health and wellbeing, as well as 36 per cent seeing other countries as a healthier environment and more varied lifestyle.

25 per cent said that they are not fully aware what state healthcare they would be entitled to of they were to move abroad, and a further 17 per cent believe that they would automatically qualify for free healthcare.

Almost half of the respondents (41%) wrongly believe that as a UK citizen, they automatically qualify for state-funded healthcare in the EU and Commonwealth.

Over a third of young workers (34%) wouldn’t take out additional health insurance if they were going to move abroad.

Teresa Rogers, international sales and marketing manager at Aviva UK Health, said, “In the UK we are in the enviable position of being able to choose to complement the ‘free at the point of delivery’ health services available from the NHS with a private health insurance policy.

“However, in many countries private health insurance is a necessity you can’t afford to be without.

“Healthcare provision varies greatly around the world and even routine medical care can prove costly in countries that don’t offer a similar service to the NHS.

“While we’re delighted to see that the majority of people would consider taking out additional private health insurance if they move overseas, our research clearly shows that many people have a very limited understanding of overseas health provision which could result in them choosing inappropriate cover or worse still, wrongly believing that either the state will provide cover or a European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) is sufficient.”

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