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UK Immigration Policy 'damaging IT Industry'
News The chief executive of Autonomy attacked the UK government on Tuesday for what he claims is its "parochial" and "crazy" attitude to immigration. The current UK immigration system is widely seen as overly complicated.
[July 12, 2005, 15:35]
Home Office: Immigration Points System 'will Benefit UK'
News The Government on Tuesday announced the introduction of a "cleaner" points-based immigration system for IT specialists and other highly skilled workers. Centre-left think tank the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) cautiously welcomed the...
[March 8, 2006, 15:15]
UK Immigration Policy 'damaging IT Industry'
Talkback For some companies this is a problem, For the UK as a whole the issue is that we are still not producing young people with adequate (Both in depth and bredth) technical skils, This affects many industries, not just IT.
[July 13, 2005, 11:40]
Home Office: Immigration Points System 'will Benefit UK'
Talkback I want to apply for HSMP having 35 years practice in supreme court of Pakistan
[April 27, 2006, 16:03]
Siemens Mops Up Immigration IT Contract
News The UK's Immigration and Nationality Directorate has welcomed back an IT supplier which was at the centre of its previous computer failures. The Home Office has commissioned Siemens Business Services to run IT systems for processing work permit and...
[February 22, 2006, 15:40]
Biometrics Land At Gatwick
News Gatwick airport is the latest UK airport to trial biometric fingerprinting technology to boost immigration security. On arrival, passengers will have their fingerprints and photos checked against a database by immigration officials, and those...
[October 10, 2007, 8:30]
SOCA: Beware The IT Mafia
News SOCA was formed earlier this month, combining the National Crime Squad, the National Criminal Intelligence Service and experts from HM Revenue & Customs and the UK Immigration Service. According to SOCA's annual plan, around 40 percent of its...
[April 25, 2006, 15:30]
Immigration Can Cure Skills Shortage, Says SAS Chief
News In an interview with silicon.com (ZDNet UK's sister site), Goodnight said that the IT industry is crying out for changes to immigration laws and added that SAS has slowed its hiring in the US in favour of growing its teams in India and China where...
[July 3, 2006, 14:55]
Biometric Tech Gets Small Town Trial
News Separately, the government announced plans to extend a biometric scheme for people applying for visas to the UK to tackle immigration and asylum abuse. This is then used to identify the "significant number" of Sri Lankans who the government claims...
[August 28, 2003, 9:50]
Biometric Checks Launched For All UK Visa Applicants
News Immigration minister Liam Byrne congratulated Border and Immigration Agency officials and set out 10 milestones to strengthen border protection this year, including introducing compulsory ID cards for foreign nationals who want to stay in the UK...
[January 15, 2008, 7:18]
UK Education System Failing Tech Industry
News But while many in the technology industry claim that improving education is the only way for the UK to stay competitive, others argue that immigration is a faster and surer way of bringing in the skills needed.
[August 14, 2006, 14:35]
Compulsory ID Card Scheme On Course For Parliament
News David Blunkett said in a statement that ID cards will help "tackle the challenges of the 21st century" including terrorism, organised crime and illegal immigration. You will not solve terrorism or immigration by introducing biometrics to a card.
[November 27, 2003, 9:10]
SOCA: We Are Tackling E-crime
News SOCA was formed in May 2006 as an amalgamation of the NHTCU, National Crime Squad (NCS), National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS), the part of HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) that deals with with drug trafficking and associated criminal finance...
[March 28, 2007, 14:52]
MP: ID Card Scheme Is 'doomed To Failure'
News This is because it builds on the existing introduction of biometric passports and biometric immigration documents, and there are no plans to include iris recognition in passports. One is the government's decision to use three existing databases...
[January 15, 2007, 12:36]
Biometrics Beyond Borders
News While many countries have beginning to investigate biometric passports and start trials of border control systems, the US Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US VISIT) programme, is one of the few live deployments and remains the...
[October 25, 2005, 10:50]
Survey Gives Thumbs-up To ID Cards
News Reasons cited for supporting entitlement cards included "were to address fraud", "to enhance control of illegal immigration", and -- in SchlumbergerSema's words -- "a general view that making it easier to identify individuals was a good thing.
[January 30, 2003, 9:09]
Government Earmarks £1.2bn For E-Borders
News Names that arouse suspicion can then be investigated by the Border and Immigration Agency, HMRC, Police and UK Visas before travellers have embarked on their journey. Immigration minister Liam Byrne said in a statement: "All our tests show [e...
[August 3, 2007, 8:37]
UK Online Moderator Receives Death Threat
News In recent months the forum has hosted heated debates on sensitive issues such as immigration and race, which the Cabinet Office claims have gone uncensored providing the discussion has not become racist.
[July 13, 2001, 11:06]
Government Pushes Forward With E-Borders
News The Home Office has announced that a new UK Border Agency will unite immigration, customs and visa checks, backed by a £1.2bn passenger-screening programme. The electronic security system will screen all passengers before they travel to the UK...
[November 19, 2007, 12:14]
Hi-tech Police To Join New UK Force
News The elite police force will merge the National Crime Squad (which the NHTCU is part of), the National Criminal Intelligence Service and the investigative branches of the Customs and Immigration Service.
[February 10, 2004, 10:45]
