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  • Friday, 5 March, 2021
    UK immigration
    New UK fintech visa will struggle to attract specialists, experts warn

    Previous immigration schemes have either pulled in too many applicants or not enough

  • Friday, 26 February, 2021
    InterviewRishi Sunak
    Chancellor spots break in clouds after Brexit, Covid and battered finances

    Rishi Sunak tells FT he wants to start laying foundations for Britain’s future economy

  • Wednesday, 24 February, 2021
    Brussels Briefing
    Frontex saga offers chance to shift EU migration politics Premium

    Embattled border and coastguard agency faces probe into alleged violations of international law

  • Tuesday, 23 February, 2021
    Janan Ganesh
    Joe Biden can save global migration from the deep freeze

    Through example and sheer numbers, an open US could bring an open world

  • Sunday, 21 February, 2021
    Colombia’s treatment of Venezuelan refugees is a global model

    Giving the world’s 80m displaced people access to broad social rights can be a win-win solution for all

  • Saturday, 20 February, 2021
    News in-depthUK agriculture
    UK flower growers hit by post-Brexit labour shortages

    Daffodil farmers warn millions of blooms will be left to rot because they cannot secure enough pickers

  • Wednesday, 17 February, 2021
    News in-depthUK immigration
    How EU migrant exodus is reshaping communities across the UK

    Many have already left Lancashire city of Preston as Covid and Brexit hits employment

  • Tuesday, 16 February, 2021
    UK immigration
    UK visa offer to Hong Kongers fails to help thousands wanting to flee

    Community groups say many people seeking to leave territory are having to claim asylum

  • Tuesday, 9 February, 2021
    News in-depth
    Sharp fall in global migration threatens economic recovery

    Pandemic ended decade-long expansion of population and worker flows around the world

  • Promoted Content
  • Sunday, 7 February, 2021
    US immigration
    Joe Biden’s immigration orders leave skilled workers guessing

    Rules have been loosened for refugees, but Trump’s limits on visas for foreign workers remain

  • Friday, 5 February, 2021
    Brexit
    UK au pairs under threat from new immigration rules

    Warning that affordable childcare system could be victim of post-Brexit arrangements

  • Friday, 5 February, 2021
    UK immigration
    ‘Massive uncertainty’ over UK migration data amid pandemic

    Britain is ‘flying blind’, warns expert, after suspension of immigration survey as post-Brexit system is rolled out

  • Wednesday, 3 February, 2021
    UK immigration
    Thousands risk legal limbo as EU settlement deadline beckons

    The government says scheme has been a success but campaigners fear European migrants will lose UK rights

  • Tuesday, 2 February, 2021
    US immigration
    US to review treatment of asylum seekers

    Joe Biden seeks investigation into separation of families at border as part of immigration overhaul

  • Friday, 29 January, 2021
    UK immigration
    Patel criticises asylum seekers after fire breaks out at former barracks

    Home secretary calls blaze ‘appalling’ after protests over conditions at site where many have coronavirus

  • Friday, 29 January, 2021
    UK immigration
    Thousands of Hong Kongers granted UK residence ahead of visa scheme

    Families from territory have been allowed to settle in Britain since July

  • Monday, 25 January, 2021
    Sarah O'Connor
    ‘Lazy’ Britons aren’t the reason for the UK’s migrant workforce

    Consumers will have to pay more for food if Brexit cuts the flow of workers

  • Monday, 25 January, 2021
    News in-depthCoronavirus economic impact
    Foreign workers flee UK as pandemic and Brexit bite

    An estimated 1.3m have gone home, with hospitality and retail the sectors most heavily affected

  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    Chris Giles
    Mystery of the UK’s vanishing foreign-born workers

    Official statistics fail to capture the departure of eastern Europeans

  • Wednesday, 20 January, 2021
    The Big Read
    EU immigration: Frontex faces scrutiny over its growing role

    The European bloc’s first uniformed armed force faces allegations of helping to send migrants back to countries such as Turkey

  • Monday, 18 January, 2021
    Michael Skapinker
    British business travellers face a bewildering return to the EU

    It’s not just new rules that will cause headaches — but the fact they vary from one member state to the next

  • Sunday, 17 January, 2021
    UK universities
    Overseas students rely on UK food banks in virus jobs shutdown

    Those from poor backgrounds in countries such as India and China among worst affected

  • Sunday, 17 January, 2021
    Guatemala launches crackdown on US-bound migrant caravan

    Large group of Hondurans fleeing hurricane devastation could present test for Biden border policies

  • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
    US immigration
    US watchdog blames senior Trump officials for border separations

    Report cites ‘single-minded focus’ on immigration prosecutions with no regard for the consequences

  • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
    UK immigration
    Coronavirus sparks exodus of foreign-born people from UK

    Up to 1.3m may have left in past 12 months, according to research that questions official data

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