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Starting on 3rd April 2006, ancestry visas shall be granted for 5 years rather than 4 years.
These changes reflect much broader changes to other immigration rules.  So as to ensure that these changes can be utilised by applicants,  it is advised that applications are made as soon as possible.

A new Points Based System (PBS) has been outlined in a report.

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The Home Office Command Paper, "A Points-Based System: Making Migration Work for Britain", was published today.
The Command Paper announces the Government’s intention to terminate the Sectors Based Scheme for the food processing sector at the end of December 2006. This decision reflects the Government’s policy, set out its Five Year Strategy on Asylum and [...]

The Conservatives have promised a review of their party’s immigration policy. Hoping to find the right answers to the UK’s immigration needs, the Tories propose set quotas on managed migration.

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The International Monetary Fund has praised the UK Economy, which has weathered the storms of increasing oil and gas prices and a falling housing prices remarkably well. The UK economy, which is the forth largest economy in the world, has adequately maintained growth levels and stability.
The report published by the IMF attributes the success of the [...]

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The prison procedures are becoming a thing of the past in the Dover immigration removal centre (IRC), according to the latest report from the Chief Inspector of Prisons. The Dover Immigration Removal Centre is one of three Immigration Removal Centres in the UK that are administered by the Prison service.
The report details the findings of [...]

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HSMP applicants can claim up to 50 points for their earnings during the 12 month period prior to the application being submitted.
Individuals who have been seconded abroad during the 12 month period they wish to use for earnings points, during which time their wages have continued to be paid in their home country, were previously [...]

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Non-genuine evidence used in HSMP applications will be refused by the Home Office.
Revised rules for the HSMP were brought in on 12 April 2005. One of the substantive changes to occur has been around the types of documentation that will or will not be accepted.
Documents that have been notarised or photocopied will no [...]