Sentences with phrase «immigration minister in»

He said he'd considered the issue again when he was appointed minister in the Cabinet Office in May 2010 and immigration minister in 2012.

He resigned from his post as immigration minister in February 2014 after he discovered that his cleaner was no longer entitled to work in the UK, but rejoined the government five months later as minister for disabled people.

We have run a strong campaign from the off and with the Prime Minister, the International Development Secretary and the Immigration Minister in the constituency today, as well as dozens of MPs, councillors and activists, today has been a high visibility day.

When he became immigration minister in 2008, Liam Byrne immediately ordered a huge expansion of the programme, forcing through 1,500 additional places.

MacDonald is the only provincial immigration minister in Atlantic Canada.

Not exact matches

Originally announced in December by Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, the changes to Canada's Federal Skilled Worker Program aim to improve the economic suitability of new Canadians.

Trump's widely reported comment, which the White House did not deny, came Thursday during a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers on immigration in which he used the term to describe Haiti and African countries and instead expressed an interest in accepting immigrants from countries like Norway, whose prime minister he had spoken with the day before.

On a trip to California that year, then Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Jason Kenney posed in front of the hoarding, flashing a thumbs - up.

It's unclear whether major reforms are coming, but the immigration minister's office told CBC in January that the Start - up Visa program will be reviewed this year.

«We are considering potential changes to the UK passport after the UK has left the European Union,» the immigration minister, Robert Goodwill, said in reply to a parliamentary question about reintroducing Britain's «old blue style passport» from the Conservative MP Julian Knight.

Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen acknowledges that gaps in employment and wages do exist, but says government has been working on designing settlement programs to improve opportunities for immigrant women and their children.

Bank of Japan governor Haruhiko Kuroda said he is in regular talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe about opening Japan to more immigration and other politically sensitive changes needed to improve potential growth, currently estimated at only around one percent annually.

While Joe Volpe, the current federal immigration minister, has talked about encouraging more newcomers to settle in smaller centres, he lacks any real coercive powers.

Add to these bureaucratic inefficiencies the curious case of Judy Sgro, the former immigration minister who resigned from cabinet in January following a pair of scandals involving the alleged preferential treatment of immigrants who were associated with her campaign office.

Immigration Minister Elinor Caplan says that two refugee boats bound for Canada were intercepted recently by Chinese authorities while still in Chinese waters.

Immigration Minister Caplan announced that next year, the government intends to take in 225,000 immigrants, along with 25,000 refugees, and asserted that Canada needs immigrants for continued growth and prosperity.

The current Liberal government, led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, is approaching two years in office, and with a relatively new Minister of Immigration and a swathe of new approaches within the department, now is as good a time as any to reflect on how this government is faring on iImmigration and a swathe of new approaches within the department, now is as good a time as any to reflect on how this government is faring on immigrationimmigration.

In attempting to shoo away questions about the temporary foreign worker program, the Immigration Minister's office has apparently been going through its correspondence file.

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney noted that his grandfather Mart Kenney, a legend in the big band era, played at the hotel several times.

The minister of citizenship and immigration has already picked a fight this year with Amnesty International over his plan to enlist the public's help in identifying and rounding up fugitives suspected of hiding in Canada from their alleged past behaviour as war criminals.

Kenney allies routinely bring up his efforts as immigration minister to bring in gay people persecuted in Iraq and Iran, but there's no mention of him expanding or safeguarding LGBTQ rights for those within Canada.

The former federal Conservative immigration minister has long been considered in an organizational class of his own.

Ontario decided to pick up the slack, restoring the needed healthcare — and Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander had the nerve to scold the province for stepping in.

In an editorial that has drawn the fury of progressives in Denmark, possibly the most conservative of the Nordic states, the country's immigration minister said.In an editorial that has drawn the fury of progressives in Denmark, possibly the most conservative of the Nordic states, the country's immigration minister said.in Denmark, possibly the most conservative of the Nordic states, the country's immigration minister said...

Since his election in 2008, Mr. Xiao has served as the parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Energy, Minister of Transportation and the Minister of Employment and Immigration.

David Cameron pledged to reduce immigration to «tens of thousands» rather than «hundreds of thousands» in order to ease the pressure on public services and the former Labour welfare Minister, Frank Field, supported this.

So, having said these things, I will still vote for President Obama not so much for the other issues I agree with him (immigration and especially economy), but because of the facts you Baptist Minister also mentioned about Bishop Romney (he was indeed a Mormon priest in Boston and a Mormon missionary in France).

But the Church, in ministering to their spiritual and physical needs, must not become complicit in their criminality, undermining the moral authority of our country's immigration laws.

That started in Sydney, in the immigration minister's office.

It is an area I find particularly interesting, bearing in mind my earlier responsibilities in Westminster, where in the mid-90s Conservative government I was the Home Office minister responsible for immigration and asylum.

Quizzed on the issue of immigration at Prime Minister's Questions this week May insisted that immigration depressed wages and affected the poorest in society hardest.

So in welcoming Caroline Nokes, the new Immigration Minister, to her post, our message is clear — we need the rhetoric of Global Britain to be matched with actions from her and Number 10.

Might I point out that it was Powell who encouraged immigration from the Commonwealth countries when he was a minister in govt in the 60s?

These proposals will strengthen the home secretary's powers to ensure that very dangerous individuals can be excluded if it is in the public interest to do so,» immigration minister Mark Harper said.

Shadow immigration minister Phil Woolas faces a five - day fight in court to save his Oldham East and Saddleworth seat from his Liberal Democrat challenger.

Based on a 10,000 - sample poll and focus groups around the country, the project asks what voters hope and expect to get from the Brexit deal, how they balance immigration control and access to the single market, the status of EU nationals already in Britain, people's confidence that the Prime Minister will secure a good deal, and how the Brexit negotiations compare in importance to other priorities.

Speaking to ITV News Yashika Bageerathi appealed directly to the Immigration Minister and the Home Secretary to remain in the UK.

As a former climate change minister I wonder if he sees the link between Britain's CO2 emissions, the depletion of resources and the predicted immigration led rise in our population of 10m?

The Prime Minister Tony Blair has revealed that the Government will set out plans for further tackling immigration and asylum early in 2005.

However, shadow immigration minister Damian Green said the number of people arriving in Britain was «huge» and questioned whether the government had any real plans to deal with so many extra people.

The use of dawn raids to forcibly remove failed asylum seekers from their homes will continue in Scotland, the immigration minister has said.

The comment comes ahead of a major speech on immigration from the prime minister tomorrow in which he will insist foreign nationals pay for GP appointments and be resident two years before they can access social housing.

Immigration Minister Damian Green expanded on this point in a speech to the TRG before Christmas when he said: «We must not sub-contract the need to keep the government in the progressive space to the Liberal Democrats.»

In an interview with The Times published on Saturday, new Immigration Minister Phil Woolas said:

In much the same way as government ministers motivated the Asylum and Immigration Act and defended their treatment of refugees in Rochester Prison, the manifesto states that «the vast majority of so - called «refugees» pouring into Britain every year are not real refugees at all but simply people seeking to better their living standards»In much the same way as government ministers motivated the Asylum and Immigration Act and defended their treatment of refugees in Rochester Prison, the manifesto states that «the vast majority of so - called «refugees» pouring into Britain every year are not real refugees at all but simply people seeking to better their living standards»in Rochester Prison, the manifesto states that «the vast majority of so - called «refugees» pouring into Britain every year are not real refugees at all but simply people seeking to better their living standards».

But the Tory immigration minister Damian Green attacked Denham for not condemning the level of immigration while Labour was in power.

The new immigration minister has refused to rule out providing an amnesty for the thousands of people living in the UK illegally.

As the evidence session took place, immigration minister Damian Green was forced to answer an urgent question on the row in the Commons, prompting accusations of cowardice from the home secretary.

Overall savings of # 40m in the last financial year mean the cost of a standard passport can be cut from # 77.50 to # 72.50 from the autumn, Immigration Minister Damian Green said.

John Reid said the minister, who is now in charge of policing, had been «a stalwart» over the past few weeks, in which the immigration and nationality directorate (IND) was hit by a series of embarrassing revelations.