NIGERIANS TO START PAYING £3, 000 TO ENTER UK FROM NOVEMBER

Naija people, una dey hear this one? According to a report by UK Daily
Mail, visitors from'high risk' countries in Africa and Asia will have
to put up a £3,000 cash bond to enter Britain.
The money will be kept by the Government if visitors do not return
home by the time their visas expire.
A pilot scheme, introduced by Home Secretary Theresa May, will target
hundreds of people coming to Britain on six-month visit visas from
India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Sri Lankaand Bangladesh.
The countries have been picked for their high number of visa
applications and what the Government sees as relatively high levels of
immigration abuse and fraud, reports the Sunday Times.
The bonds, to be introduced from November, will only apply to non-EU
migrants, otherwise they would fall foul of European rights to free
movement.
'This is the next step in making sure our immigration system is more
selective, bringing down net migration from the hundreds of thousands
to the tens of thousands while still welcoming the brightest and the
best to Britain,' Mrs May told the Sunday Times.
'In the long run we're interested in a system of bonds that deters
overstaying and recovers costsif a foreign national has used our
public services.'
A second scheme will cover countries such as Kenya, the newspaper
reports, which are considered to be lower-risk because immigration
officials have fewer doubts about migrants' plans to return home.
About 2.2million people are granted visas to enter Britain every year.
Last year 296,000 people from India were granted six-month visas, as
were 101,000 from Nigeria, 53,000 from Pakistan and 14,000 apiece from
Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
The Home Secretary plans to reduce annual net migration to under
100,000 by 2015.