Ask the minister: Damian Green

Earlier this month immigration minister Damian Green invited questions on reforms that are being made to the UK's immigration system.

More than three hundred questions were submitted by email and via Twitter using the hashtag #askdamiangreen.

This video shows Damian Green answering a selection of questions covering a range of the issues.

For more information on immigration visit http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/media-centre/news/immigration-questions

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• immigration
• migration
• #asktheminister
• Damian Green
• UK immigration minister
• UK Border Agency
• foreign students
• immigration reform
• coalition government
• asylum
• refugee
• foreign worker
• non EU worker
• UKBA

[askhiren]

All immigrant has to understand that every country has right who should come in and who should not, we should respect these. At the same time every country has moral responsibility to make sure they are not pooling valued resources from other country. Hope UK government behave responsibly and will not allow pooling exceptional talent from country where there is need for such talent to stay.

[khurshed701]

Dear Mr Damien,

You stopped permission to work in terms time for foreign students in private colleges who are manages their daily expense by working part time because the UK lifestyle is very expensive day by day.The foreign students are improving this countries economy by bringing lot of foreign money.You might loose lot of foreign students by this law.Do you have any plan to change this law because the students are paying a lot for their study and they have to survive them self as well.

[JATTBOYZ100]

Mr. Green, if you really wants to stop abusing student route then these suggestion would work for you.

Student visa TIER 4 should look like :

1. An interview should be conducted before issuing a student visa.

2. Minimum IELTS requirement should be 6

3.Student should not allow to work unless he completed half of its course with a minimum of 90% attendance.

4.No work should be allowed to dependent.

5. After graduation, student should get a 6 months " Job search visa ".

[daidii2343]

Dear Damien

The most easy route being abused is students enter united Kingdom on student visas and then switch easily into a spouse visa inside UK.I strongly belive if you stopped inside switching from student visa into spouse visa,then this abuse can easily be stopped.In my humble view switching inside UK would not be allow.

[rlb4606]

Thank you Mr. Green, let's say I am a student under tier4 general and studying in A rated college, i did pay 4000 pounds tuition fee, I don't know on what basis college suspended from A rated and closed.

What is my fault?

why don't you have a law to refund my total fee?

why don't you caught the owners of those colleges and put them behind the bar and get the fees refunded?

its a business here to open a bogus college, deposited fees after 6 month, college suspended, job done, profit 4000%

[seanreillydotcom]

The question on who determines what constitutes "exceptional talent" was not answered. Which organizations determine who is an exceptional talent? It does not seem possible to apply for an exceptional talent visa without first getting an endorsement from one of these as-yet-unannounced bodies, which means that the exceptional talent route is effectively non-operational.

[gascanieto]

Thank you very much for taking the time to respond to these questions. Whatever some people think about immigration to the UK, at least now, rules are starting to look clearer than they were in the past.

[TheBigBadG]

There are various references to 'cracking down' on people who break the rules and requests for people to blow the whistle on overstayers. So the Q&A session is actually a chance to request our help in policing immigration? For instance, is it right that a question about why non highly-trusted sponsors can bring students to the UK is answered with a request that we do the job of policing abuses of the system for them?!

[TheBigBadG]

To my mind this is a wasted opportunity to engage with some genuine questions about the motivation and methods behind the recent policy changes. Mr Green starts with the ever-pernicious 'dangerous criminals' but then tells us that overstayers are criminals who won't be tolerated. This is accurate but also unsympathetic. Say someone has been here 13 years illegally (just shy of the requirement to apply for ILR) but has worked and made the UK their home. Where precisely will you send them?