UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has announced the launch of a US-style digital visa system in Britain. The Home Secretary claims that the system will help the UK government accurately count, for the first time, the number of people entering and exiting the UK.
Under the new system, people travelling to the UK without a visa or immigration status would have to apply for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA) document – similar to the US ESTA. An ETA will automatically determine the eligibility of travellers for UK entry in advance, according to Patel.
The Home Office said it expects around 30 million ETA applications to be made each year. The plans to ‘digitise the border’ will officially be launched today as part of Patel’s widely criticised ‘New Plan for UK Immigration’, which seeks to overhaul the UK immigration and asylum system.
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The people of Glasgow stood firm and stopped the deportation in its tracks
Locals in Polloksheilds, Glasgow, surrounded an immigration enforcement van for several hours yesterday, protesting against a deportation raid that took place during Eid al-Fitr.
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The chants from the crowd rang out: these are our neighbours, let them go! and in the small town in Southside of Glasgow suddenly, where many should have been celebrating the end of the month of Ramadan, they were fighting injustice.
Protesters in Glasgow have successfully halted the deportation of two members of their community by UK Immigration Enforcement. ✊ pic.twitter.com/lUFowVwXKO