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New immigration rules (1)

01 January 1991

New immigration rules
artdoc August=1994

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.

Statewatch, Vol 4 no 4, July-August 1994