New rules on student visas fraught with difficulties

24th February, 2010 by Webmaster

Those horses have been bolting ever since the Conservatives and Labour
abolished exit checks. Consequently – and as Liberal Democrat shadow home
affairs spokesman, Chris Huhne, has been saying for years – we have no
effective system for monitoring who has left our borders.
Johnson retorts that by 2011 the UK will have the ‘most sophisticated’
system in the world for checking who has come into the country and who has
left. I only hope no one will leave the data on a train to Bradford.

While the logic behind the tougher rules is clear the consequences are more
opaque and the devil, as he is so often to be found, is in the detail.

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