Dave
TS Founding Member
I'll give you an example. The Turkish economy is not doing brilliantly. Coming here on a work Visa would probably be great for hundreds of thousands of Turks to earn some money and then send or take it home. However, they probably wouldn't get a work visa. But look! The British government have just announced that whilst asylum claims are ongoing you can work. And the best part? It'll probably take a couple of years! Who needs a Visa eh? We'll just rock up, put our claims in and be off to work for an agency for a couple of years. And it wouldn't just be one country doing it.
Come on guys, how many pull-factors do we need? It's a non-starter. Just get rid of the backlog and get new claims sorted quickly.
I think that’s a valid point, unfortunately the Tory’s deliberately slowed down applications and it’s going to take some time to get them down again (it is coming down).