Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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New figures released by the government show there were 4,540 people detected arriving by small boats in January to March 2022. This is more than three times higher than the same three months in 2021.
There were 141 small boats detected arriving in the UK in January to March 2022. This is just under double the number of small boats detected in the same three months in 2021 (74).
Overall, males represented approximately 9 out of 10 (89%) small boat arrivals in January to March 2022, which is the same as the average between calendar years 2018 to 2021.
Over half (55%) of small boat arrivals were from Afghan (24%), Iranian (16%) and Iraqi (15%) nationals.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Another missing child. Coming to a classroom near you soon?
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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#222 Perhaps you phone Stoke on Trent police and appraise them of your wisdom rather than posting your bigoted rants on a local forum.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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And here's the figures (just out) from the Home Office about LEGAL entry!
WORK VISAS
There were
277,069 work-related visas granted in the year ending March 2022. This was a 129% increase in the year ending March 2021
STUDY VISAS
In the year ending March 2022, there were
466,611 Sponsored study visas granted (to both main applicants and their dependants), 58% (+170,368) more than in the year ending March 2020. Chinese nationals were the most common nationality making up 25% of visas & the largest increase in study grants awarded went to Nigerian students.
FAMILY VISAS & PERMITS
There were
301,830 visas and permits granted for family reasons in the year ending March 2022, 90% more than the year ending March 2021
205,889 dependants of people coming to the UK on other types of visas, up 171% in the last year.
51,148 EUSS family permits were issued in the year ending March 2022 to family members of people from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, or Liechtenstein.
EXTENSIONS TO STAY
There were
401,963 applications to extend a person’s stay in the UK.
SETTLEMENT
There were
111,760 decisions on applications for settlement in the UK.
CITIZENSHIP
There were 180,493 applications for British citizenship.
196,085 grants of British citizenship were awarded.
Fuller details HERE :-
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2022"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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I have no 'inner Gordon Brown'. I simply suggesting that if the Stoke on Trent police have got it all wrong then maybe you would be best advised to tell them?
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Perhaps, rather than the specific Stoke case, I was alluding to the fact that more than 1,100 migrants who claimed to be under 18 were found to be adults in the 12 months to September 2021?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10348715/Two-three-asylum-seekers-claimed-18-lied-age-new-data-suggests.html
If you are happy that mass immigration ran at nearly a quarter of a million (239,000) during 12 months until mid of last year -
even as travel was largely shut down during the pandemic then so be it.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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UK gave asylum to 98% of Syrians, 97% of Eritreans, 95% of Sudanese, 91% of Afghans & 88% of Iranians.
76% of claims from young men aged 18-29 were granted.
(All rather meaningless as we're not removing failed asylum seekers to these countries)
We currently have 109,735 asylum seekers awaiting a decision.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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A suitably pathetic turn out today.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Record breakers!
79 migrants have been brought to Dover this morning (07/06) , bringing this year’s total for people arriving by boat to more than TEN THOUSAND.
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Matey
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 11 Oct 2021
- Posts: 171
10,000 so far. And that’s just the one’s they know about, phew…..
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,028
I note that Mrs Elphicke told the House today that "Overnight, many of my constituents have been in touch with me anguished at developments that have occurred to stop effective action to tackle the crossings." Obviously this cannot be misleading and so can I just say: people, can your anguish and let the lady get some sleep for goodness sake!
(Not my real name.)
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,802
I wonder how many of those anguished constituents were in anguish about the obvious enormous waste of money as they could have told her there would obviously be delaying tactics.
The boats will continue coming until those in power the other side of the Channel manage to stop the life endangering people smugglers.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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IF the cost was the reported £500,000 it's one tenth of the daily cost of accommodation for these 'asylum' seekers .
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Quick facts on the Channel crisis:
1. 50,000 boat arrivals since 1 January 2018
2. 7 in 10 are men aged 18-39
3. 98% have no passport when processed
4. 1 in 6 already claimed asylum elsewhere
5. Zero are directly coming from a place of persecution
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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It's been confirmed that the RNLI were spotted visually & by Channel radar in the early evening of 16th June going over into French Channel waters to collect some 40 migrants on a French warship. It appears the migrants were rescued earlier but the French wouldn't take them back
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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Would it be possible to open a processing center at the UK Embassy in Paris? Or even a consular office in Calais? Seems to me that our own arguments are critically undermined by claiming that people should take the right/legal route - but then not actually providing that.
That seems simple to me, so I must be missing something....
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How I Wrote Elastic Man- Registered: 5 Dec 2020
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Captain Haddock wrote:It's been confirmed that the RNLI were spotted visually & by Channel radar in the early evening of 16th June going over into French Channel waters to collect some 40 migrants on a French warship. It appears the migrants were rescued earlier but the French wouldn't take them back
who has confirmed this?
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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There's a global immigation crisis. Let's just weaponise it to suit our political ideaology.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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