Extradition process has fundamentally improved, migration pact unique: Priti Patel
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The pact has created huge opportunities after the UK home department put in place new immigration rules to help applicants, Patel told ET in an interview, days after the pact was signed by her and foreign minister S Jaishankar who was in London.
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The new youth mobility route adds to post-Brexit points-based immigration system announced earlier, which Patel said was already of benefit to Indians.
The Migration and Mobility Partnership (MMP) MoU signed at the recent Modi-Johnson summit is unprecedented and unique allowing 3,000 18 to 30 year olds to apply for a 24-month stay in either country and has put mobility at the heart of the relationship, UK Home Secretary (Home Minister) Priti Patel has told ET.
Lakhvir Singh, 34, says officers sent by the Home Office barged into his Glasgow flat yesterday at around 10am and arrested him and his friend Sumit Sehdevi.
Scotland police frees 2 Indians from detention van after protests
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Scotland police frees 2 indian immigrants from detention van (Photo:IANS). Image Source: IANS News
Glasgow, May 15 : Police in Scotland have freed two Indian nationals, who were held inside a detention van, after protesters surrounded the vehicle demanding their release, according to a media report.
The incident took place on Thursday in Glasgow s Kenmure Street following a stand-off between the police and protesters, the BBC report said.
Earlier in the day, the two men had been removed from a flat and were lodged in a UK Home Office detention van.
London, May 15
Two Indian men being held in a detention van on “suspected immigration offences” walked free with the help of a human rights lawyer after an eight-hour protest by their nei
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One of the men released from the custody of British immigration officials after hundreds of protesters blocked the van he was detained in says he s so happy that fate brought him to live in Glasgow.
On Thursday, hundreds of people surrounded a van headed to a detention centre and secured the temporary release of two Indian men who had been put inside after a raid on a property on Kenmure Street in the Scottish city.
The UK Home Office van was blockaded by demonstrators for around eight hours.
One protester climbed under the van to stop it from moving, while others chanted these are our neighbours, let them go.