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Migrants with no job or money are being allowed to settle here because of failure of background checks

Chief inspector of immigration John Vine said many had 'zero income'
Thousands may have had applications rubber-stamped without full checks

By James Slack And Jack Doyle

PUBLISHED: 00:34, 24 January 2013 | UPDATED: 07:29, 24 January 2013

Immigrants are being granted permission to settle in Britain despite having �zero income and no employment�, a government inspector warned last night.

The failure to carry out full background checks on the migrants undermines a key Home Office policy that applicants should be able to support themselves and their families without relying on the State.

Foreign nationals who want to remain in the UK permanently are supposed to undergo strict checks by officials into their financial background.
The chief inspector of immigration John Vine found potentially tens of thousands of applicants were approved without face-to-face interviews.

The chief inspector of immigration John Vine found potentially tens of thousands of applicants were approved without face-to-face interviews.
HMRC is only willing to do 3,000 checks a year for the UK Border Agency despite an estimated one million migrants applying for permission to stay in the country each year

HMRC is only willing to do 3,000 checks a year for the UK Border Agency despite an estimated one million migrants applying for permission to stay in the country each year

As a minimum, they require enough money to pay for housing, plus a disposable income of more than �100 a week.

But the chief inspector of immigration, John Vine, found potentially tens of thousands were having their applications rubber-stamped without either a face-to-face interview or HMRC investigation.

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An estimated one million migrants apply for permission to stay in the UK each year.

But, incredibly, HMRC is willing to do only 3,000 checks a year for the UK Border Agency � just 250 every month. Such checks would establish if a migrant who claimed to be able to support themselves was telling the truth about their income or even having a job.

As a result of the HMRC policy, officials are letting migrants stay without having had access to wages slips, P60 forms and other crucial data.

Mr Vine, who carried out spot checks on a small sample of cases, said officials had granted permission to settle here despite the applicant having �zero income and no employment�.

He said the number of HMRC checks was �insufficient� and must be urgently increased.
Just a fine for ferry passengers caught with cocaine
John Vine said immigrants were being granted permission to settle despite having 'zero income and no employment'

John Vine said immigrants were being granted permission to settle despite having 'zero income and no employment'

Ferry passengers caught entering Britain with cocaine in their luggage are being let off with just a small fine.

Instead of arresting and prosecuting, border officials are routinely confiscating the drugs, allowing passengers to pay around �100 and then letting them carry on their journey.

John Vine, chief inspector of Borders and Immigration, said the approach was unlawful and anyone caught with Class A drugs should be put before a court.

His report into border controls found two occasions where a small amount of cocaine was discovered on a passenger or in their luggage coming into Dover via Calais.

Both cases involved less than 1g of the drug.

Under customs laws, passengers caught with small amounts of Class B and C drugs can pay a �compound settlement�, have the drugs confiscated and escape prosecution.

But that law does not extend to Class A drugs. Anyone caught entering with even small amounts of heroin, cocaine or ecstasy must be arrested and can face a lengthy prison sentence.

The report said: �Although the amount was small, we were concerned that in one case investigators advised a compound settlement for the offence, given that this was contrary to Border Force�s own guidance.

�Border Force subsequently informed us that they had revised their guidance to reiterate that class A drugs fall outside the scope of compounding.�

Of 49 cases he looked at where migrants were asking to stay on the grounds of marriage, not a single person was interviewed. This is despite huge concern over sham marriages.

In other cases, the application was decided while the husband or wife was still overseas. Mr Vine said in one in every ten of such cases the decision reached by immigration officials was �unreasonable�, mainly due to insufficient evidence the migrant could afford to support themselves.

The inspector raised his concerns in a report which focused on how UKBA handles cases involving marriage and civil partnerships.

In it, he also said there are currently more than 16,000 migrants waiting to hear from border officials whether they can stay in Britain in yet another �unacceptable� UKBA backlog.

Some 14,000 applicants, growing at a rate of 700 a month, have already been refused the right to stay but are pleading with officials to reconsider.

An additional 2,100 cases � shipped in a box from a UKBA office in Croydon to Sheffield � are still waiting for an initial decision, some dating back a decade. Mr Vine said: �This is completely unacceptable and I expect the Agency to deal with both types of case as a matter of urgency.

�Delays also mean enforcement action is likely to be more difficult in the event the case is ultimately refused. This is because the individual will have been in the UK for a number of years and may have developed a family or private life.�

He also said the percentage of successful appeals in marriage cases was too high, at 53 per cent from April 2011 to February last year. Sir Andrew Green, of Migration Watch, said: �This is yet further evidence of the chaos in the immigration system.�

UKBA said last night: �We are working with HMRC to increase the number of searches we can do against their systems. Since this report we have brought in strict new rules on proving income levels to make sure that those bringing in family members are able to support them.�

kinder North Face of the Eiger? No, this is the Peak District! But...

Not one single immigrant from Eastern Europe is checked upon arrival to the UK, this is all thanks to the European Union and the freedom of movement act. What an absolutely ludicrous and totally flawed piece of legislation, the idea that you simply allow millions of people to walk in to your country without completing proper background checks. We've had Lithuanian murderers allowed to live here, one such scum bag murdered a retired couple in their own home he had previous convictions back home but the authorities were utterly clueless because EU member states don't share information. No wonder this country is overrun with scum, the horse has bolted this article doesn't tell us anything we don't already know

2Anne · Joined: 04 May 2008 Posts: 399 Location: Norfolk

There was a good letter in the Mail yesterday from a lady in Spain saying that the Spanish kept this sort of dross out by having a 'residencia' ie permission to live there based on people being self-supporting.
Of course this is far too sensible for the British to do,so an ever swelling tide of migrants comes to the UK and gets assistance to stay.
This includes Arabs with several wives and masses of kids. All of whom go straight onto welfare and housing benefit.
The stupidity of the British will bring about the ruin of our country.
Our politicians are mad,self-seeking hucksters.