UK Border Agency Tightening Controls

Global Movement of People and Goods is a Good thing?

UKBA and Government Immigration policies may be having unintended consequences for the global mobility of corporate workers. Public opinion regarding immigration (especially illegal immigration) has spawned a desire on the part of politicians to control our borders more effectively.

However the burden of tracking, monitoring and control of all migrants has been dumped at the door of HR departments of businesses of all sizes. Sponsorship is the name of the game now. And the sponsor carried all the responsibility. This quasi-draconian step will not affect the illegals at all - it's just a dark administrative solution that is being slowly introduced.

But possibly worse than this are the quota systems being imposed for the ever changing work clasification or SOC codes. Not only has the employer to keep these in check they also have to record everything about their migrant workers. Even the head of a corporate strategy team would be subject to controls reminisent of 1984.

Xenophobia and protectionism policies like these could strangle any chance of recovery and make global employee movement of key staff in and out of the UK extremenly difficult. And of coure the employer pays the price - which they have to absorb or pass on.

So to the UKBA I say "lighten up". John Burke
These are my own personal views and not necessarily those of Dolphin Movers Ltd