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New immigration rules

01 July 1994

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On 23 May new immigration rules were laid before parliament, and if not defeated, they will come into effect on 1 October. Running to almost 400 paragraphs, they are twice as voluminous as before and, apart from the much-publicised open door to anyone with £750,000 to spend in Britain, move towards more rather than less restriction. In the interests of sex equality, the rights of widowed mothers and of young unmarried women to join families here have been levelled down to those of fathers and sons, although women students will now be able to bring in their husbands, which they could not do before. Apparently generous new provisions to allow access visits by non-custodial parents are in fact a disingenuous attempt to get round the recent ruling against the government by the European Commission on Human Rights.

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