New immigration laws 'illegal'

C_steam · 09-04-2008, 06:34 PM

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Immigration rules declared unlawful
Press Assoc. - Tuesday, April 8 07:25 pmThe Government has suffered a blow after new, tougher immigration rules for skilled workers who want to remain in the UK were declared unfair and unlawful by the High Court.

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The decision torpedoes controversial changes made retrospectively to test criteria for the Government's Highly Skilled Migrants Programme (HSMP).

The Home Office said analysis showed that the previous test was "not sufficiently rigorous to select those migrants who were making the greatest economic contribution to the UK".

Some already on the programme "were simply not doing highly skilled work".

But the changes were attacked in the High Court by campaign group HSMP Forum as unlawful and a breach of migrants' legitimate expectations.

They won an important legal victory when High Court judge Sir George Newman allowed their challenge and granted them judicial review.

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