3,000 Pound Visitor Bond Scheme To Be Scrapped By UK Government
Monday, November 04, 2013Omoba
UK’s Home Office has confirmed that plans for a
£3,000 “security bond” for some “high risk” overseas visitors are to be
abandoned. The visa bond scheme was announced by Home
Secretary Theresa May in June and was set to be introduced this month.
A Home Office spokesman confirmed a Sunday Times’
report that the policy would be scrapped. The decision is thought to have been taken after
Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, threatened to block it.
The aim of the scheme was to reduce the number of
people from some “high risk” countries – including India, Pakistan, and Nigeria
– staying in the UK once their short-term visas had expired.
Visitors would have paid a £3,000 cash bond before
arrival in the UK which would be forfeited if they failed to make the return
trip. ‘Indiscriminate Way Of Clobbering People ‘ Mr Clegg initially proposed the idea of a visitor
bond in March, but under his version of the policy, it would only apply to
people from “high risk” countries who had been refused a visa through the
normal route.
Business Secretary, Vince Cable later, claimed the
deputy prime minister’s plan, which had suggested a bond of £1,000, had been
deliberately misinterpreted by some of their Conservative cabinet colleagues.
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