Legal entry to the United Kingdom has expanded over the decades and during the 1920's legal entry to the Great britain started from the former colonies of the British Empire such as India, South Africa, Bangladesh, Pakistan, the Caribbean, and Hong Kong. Others have come as refugees, looking for protection as refugees under the United Nations 1951 agreement, illegal migrants, from the European Union member states exercising their treaty rights, and managed migration.
The recent United Nations 1951 Convention stipulates that as the United Kingdom is a party to the agreement, it has a responsibility under international law not to return refugees to the location where they may encounter persecution. This has had an effect on entry to the Uk as the cabinet policies are aimed to be hard on asylum.
Uk has reported that it has seen an increase in unlawful emigration by people who have entered the England without permission, and entered with forged documents and overstayed their entry clearance. In an article by David Barrett filed in the Telegraph on 20 February 2010 a large number of irregular immigrants were allowed squatters rights to stay in the UK for good after proving they have resided in the Great britain for 14 years. The petition would be granted on benevolent grounds and taking into consequence any dishonest record of the seeker prior to deciding whether or not an illegal immigrant will be permitted to stay. If the immigrant is successful on his/her application, they will be allowed to apply for a British travel permit and will be granted access to the welfare system.
Ever since the expansion of the European Union in 2004, which the England is a member of, the right to the free passage of people has been codified in the European Union Regulation and this has since led to an increase of immigration to the Uk from Europe. Immigrants from several parts of Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, Malta and Cyprus have confirmed their commonwealth connection. The United kingdom cabinet has attempted to limit immigration to the UK from Europe by placing restrictions to cap migration from Eastern Europe, especially Romania and Bulgaria.
The United kingdom government also regulates immigration to the UK through managed migration, which can be defined as all allowable labour and student migration from outside the European Union. This area is taken care of by the UK Border Agency which is part of the Home Office. Immigration applications to the UK through this method are made at UK embassies or directly through the UK border Agency. The point based immigration system was introduced in 2006 which is composed of five tiers. Recently the UK government has introduced a temporary cap on immigration of those entering the UK from outside the EU.
In summary, immigration to the United kingdom has various entry requirements, based on where the applicant originates from, all of which include extremely strict entry requirements.
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