UK BORDER CONTROLS ACTION PLAN

[Taf]

Check fingerprints before a visa is issued. To be brought in within 15 days

Spot fines for employers who do not make right-to-work checks, within 60 days

Introduce a new points system for managing migration, within 80 days

Introduce a single border force and police-like powers for frontline staff, within 100 days

Confirm number of foreign national prisoners deported in 2008 exceeds 2007, within 180 days

Activate powers to automatically deport foreign national prisoners, within 200 days

Expand detention capacity within 300 days

Begin issuing compulsory ID cards for foreign nationals who want to stay, within 300 days

Count foreign nationals in and out of the country by Christmas

Within 360 days to make and enforce 60% asylum decisions within six months

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7186492.stm

What a great announcement... just as it's revealed that Immigration has been told not to chase overseas students with expired visas....

[AdmiralSirJohn]

At least somebody in London is thinking.  Now if we could only get something like that in place over here...

[Nanaof2]

"It will apply to 133 countries, which account for three quarters of the world's population" - Oh, so thats OK then - we only need worry about the other 1 and a half billion people then!   

[Mike]

The ones that don't need Visa's tend to be Europe and places like Canada, Australia and New Zealand

[AdmiralSirJohn]

Or tourists from the US (unless they want to stay longer than 30 days).

[RojBlake]

why take so bloody long to do it all, do it in the next week