No visa for corrupt Nigerian officials — US Mission

…As Reform UK plans to scarp indefinite imperishable permission for migrants

By Nkiruka Nnorom, with bureau reports

The US Mission successful Nigeria yesterday vowed to barroom corrupt, high-profile individuals from entering the United States. Yesterday, Reform UK said it would abolish the close of migrants to suffice for imperishable colony successful the UK aft 5 years, if it wins the adjacent election.

The US Mission posted connected X, informing that its resoluteness to combat corruption would not spare anyone, stating that high-profile individuals who prosecute successful corrupt practices would beryllium barred from entering the US.

The Mission said: “Fighting corruption knows nary borders oregon limits connected accountability. Even erstwhile high-profile individuals prosecute successful corruption, they tin beryllium barred from receiving U.S. visas.”

Meanwhile, Reform UK has announced it would abolish the close of migrants to suffice for imperishable colony successful the UK aft 5 years, if the enactment wins the adjacent election.

Under the plans, migrants would request to reapply for caller visas with tougher rules, and Reform would abolish Indefinite Leave to Remain, ILR, which gives radical rights and entree to benefits.

Reform has besides said it planned to barroom anyone different than British citizens from accessing welfare. The enactment claims their plans would prevention £234billion implicit respective decades.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves said the suggested savings “have nary ground successful reality” and the authorities were already looking astatine restricting migrants’ payment access.

Reform UK Leader, Nigel Farage, said the UK should not beryllium “the world’s nutrient bank”.

Launching the caller policies, Farage said: “It is not for america to supply payment for radical coming successful from each implicit the world.” Under the existent system, migrants tin use for indefinite permission to stay aft 5 years, giving them the close to live, survey and enactment successful the UK permanently. It is simply a cardinal way to gaining British citizenship and allows radical to assertion benefits.

Reform said it would regenerate ILR with visas that unit migrants to reapply each 5 years. That includes hundreds of thousands of migrants presently successful the UK.

Applicants would besides person to conscionable definite criteria, including a higher wage threshold and modular of English. The authorities is presently consulting connected plans to treble the mean hold for migrants to use for ILR from 5 years to 10.

The announcement launches Reform’s caller battle connected what they marque the “Boriswave” – 3.8 cardinal radical who entered the UK aft Brexit nether looser rules brought successful by Boris Johnson’s administration.

Speaking astatine a property conference, Farage said the main crushed for the argumentation was to “wake everybody up to the Boris wave”. Hundreds of thousands of these migrants, who person travel to the UK since 2021, volition soon suffice for imperishable residence nether the ILR scheme.

In July, determination were 213,666 radical with ILR claiming Universal Credit benefits, according to figures published by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

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