The Liberal Democrats’ suggests an immigration system which preserves the right of free movement and makes significant changes to current asylum and refugee policy. It primarily wishes to retain the right of free movement for European citizens, secure the rights of EU nationals in the UK and vice versa and give UK citizens the opportunity to vote on the final Brexit deal.
The party mainly focuses on refugees and asylum seekers by offering safe and legal routes to the UK for refugees,making it easier for refugees to join relatives already living safely in the UK, expanding the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme to offer sanctuary to 50,000 people over the lifetime of the next parliament, reopening the Dubs scheme to take 3,000 unaccompanied refugee children from Europe, speed up the processing of asylum claims, expect working-age asylum seekers who have waited more than six months for their claim to be processed to seek work like other benefit claimants, and only to receive benefits if they are unable to do so, also offer asylum to people fleeing countries where their sexual orientation or gender identification means that they risk imprisonment, torture or execution, and stop deporting people at risk to such countries.
The party also focuses on immigration by ending indefinite immigration detention by introducing a 28 day limit’ and reducing hate crimes. The party also focuses onstrict control of border sand Border Force policing of entry by irregular route’. The party suggests a skills-based approach by holding an annual parliamentary debate on skill and labour market shortfalls and continuing to allow high skilled migration in key sectors. The party lastly focuses on international students to be removed from migration statistics, and post-study work visas for graduates in STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects who find suitable employment within six months of graduating and even the devolved administrations will also be given the right to sponsor additional post-study work visas.
“A spring in our step and the wind in our sails”
– Nicola Sturgeon
The Scottish National Party’s (SNP) outlines to seek devolution of immigration powers, so that Scotland can have an immigration policy that works for the economy and society’, it even desires for a ‘cast-iron guarantee from the UK government that they will seek the consent of the Scottish Parliament under the Sewel Convention to the terms of the Brexit Bill’.
The party also continue to support a post-study work visa; it even wishes to reintroduce a Post-Work Visa scheme and scrap the Skills Immigration Charge. It also focuses on a skill based approachin order to attract and retain the skills and talent Scotland needs. It firmly commits to press the UK government to confirm the rights of EU nationals to remain as a matter of urgency. Furtherpress the UK government to limit immigration detention to 28 days and lastly even oppose the detention of children and vulnerable people, including pregnant women and people with mental illnesses,support a review of the citizenship application process.
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