Becoming a British citizen is a milestone event in an individual's life, |
For example, if a trafficked woman told a man who had paid to have sex with that she was engaged in prostitution under duress, then he could not reasonably believe she was freely consenting. To go ahead regardless would be rape. |
For the Indian IT sector, people I was speaking to today and others, one of the key things they do want is a more keenly developed system of inter-company transfers. People who want to come here from India for three months, six months, nine months, to do what the company needs and then return—and then the flow happens the other way. And I think this system and all the other systems we put in place today works toward that, and works to a finely developed and strong relation between the UK and Mother India. |
I get asked, how many more people will come to this country? I say, as many as we need to face up to the future challenges of the UK economy, |
I have every confidence that staff within the Immigration and Nationality Directorate carry out their roles with professionalism and integrity. |
is about looking forward, rather than an assessment of their ability to understand history. |
their preparedness to become citizens, in keeping with the language requirement as well. |
These additional costs represent good value for money against the cost of enforced returns which the National Audit Office has calculated to cost 11,000 pounds (19,800 US dollars) each on average. |
These are serious allegations and I will ensure that they are fully investigated. |
Whenever a man knowingly has sex with a woman against her will, that is rape, |