ASYLUM AND IMMIGRATION BILL

KEY MEASURES

• Removal of rights of appeal against refusal of entry or leave to enter for students and workers
• Limiting rights of appeal for family visitors
• Streamline after-entry rights of appeal
• Civil penalties for employers of illegal workers
• Offence of knowingly employing an illegal worker
• Amend legislative framework for Refugee Integration Loans to reflect change in status
• Ability for authorised third party to collect biometric data 
• Wider power to enable more widespread fingerprinting, towards global roll-out in 2008
• Verifying all biometric documents against a database at ports
• Joint passenger data capture and sharing as part of e-borders
• E-borders to include a small passenger charge to recover programme costs
• More general charging for migration routes, to fit with points-based system

TERRITORIAL EXTENT

UK-wide legislation.

COMMENTS

If you have any comments on the proposals you can email them to:

Charlotte.taylor@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Follows Government Five-Year Strategy published 7 February

Complements (asylum provisions in) previous Immigration and Asylum Acts through provision for a comprehensive managed migration strategy.