English Language Tests for Visa Applicants to The UK??

Posted by VickyC on November 15th, 2009


Immigration UK is threatening to give all new immigrants, who are applying for visas, language tests to prove their proficiency in the language. This has bad news written all over it. I’m in no way trying to slate any immigrants.. My mother is an immigrant. I’m just slating this new idea.
With that being said, the government is trying to get a handle on it’s immigration problem, which is rapidly spiralling out of control. The government ministers responsible for this claim that immigrants must have a satisfactory command of the English language in order to prove that they will be able to successfully participate in society. Ok, fair enough. If Britain’s immigrants are coming to better the economy then, yes, they will need to speak the language in order to get jobs, communicate with their new fellow countrymen. But because of the welfare policy, there are too many bogus asylum seekers that are taking the states money. The country is already broke.
Also, I’m sure there are many immigrants that come to the UK and take English classes and do indeed succeed in integrating into society. And that’s great! As a functional member of society, you’re expected to do things like pay your taxes, pay your bills etc.
But imagine that you’re from an extremely poor and/or war torn country. All your friends are like “I’m going to the UK.. As an asylum seeker, you get a house, they pay your taxes, you get benefits, free healthcare, your kid can go to school”. You can’t blame these people for wanting to go to the UK – it’s not really a tough decision. Either they risk getting killed or they get a nice house and full benefits.
But back to these tests.. Really, it’s too little too late. If the government was serious about this plan, then for the time being they should completely stop immigration – no more new applicants or people at boarders. They  should bring the troops back from Afghanistan and post them at the boarders if it will help. Then they should perform a full census, ask people where they are from, do they speak english, maybe that will mean printing forms in different languages, if so, so be it. The government needs to know who is where and doing what. Kick out the people who are illegals or bogus asylum seekers. Then start repairing the country – the now broke, ruined dump that used to be a Great country.
Also, sub-standard command of the English language by a pretty big portion of the indigenous population needs to be addressed. The current government has decimated the education system. Children are struggling with large class sizes, inferior teaching and being brainwashed by multiculturalism and labelled racists over playground spats. University students are burdened with extraordinary amounts of debt and their chances of finding employment are constantly diminishing. All the while, hoards of foreigners are being let in and the government is forking out huge amounts of money to educate them and translate for them. I don’t even want to talk about pensioners and the pittance that they are receiving…
And then there was the story today where an unregistered childminder from Malaysia who was found guilty of manslaughter for killing the baby who was in her care. After being sentenced in May 2008, she served the minimum term of her 5 year sentence and was put on a plane back to Malaysia 2 weeks ago with a voucher worth 4,500 for her to spend on her return home. Essentially, the money is a bribe for the individual to get out of the country – or a “voluntry scheme offering illegal immigrants incentives to reuturn”. The money is given as “financial assistance” so that they can get healthcare, education, start a business, etc. when they return home. For a country like Malaysia, this is a HUGE sum of money. The poor parents of this baby must be furious!
What is wrong with this government, paying people to come in, paying them to get out. Madness!

The UK government is threatening to give all new immigrants, who are applying for visas, language tests to prove their proficiency in the language. This has bad news written all over it. I’m in no way trying to slate any immigrants.. My mother is an immigrant. I’m just slating this new idea.

With that being said, the government is trying to get a handle on it’s immigration problem, which is rapidly spiralling out of control. The government ministers responsible for this claim that immigrants must have a satisfactory command of the English language in order to prove that they will be able to successfully participate in society. Ok, fair enough. If Britain’s immigrants are coming to better the economy then, yes, they will need to speak the language in order to get jobs, communicate with their new fellow countrymen. But because of the welfare policy, there are too many bogus asylum seekers that are taking the states money. The country is already broke.

Also, I’m sure there are many immigrants that come to the UK and take English classes and do indeed succeed in integrating into society. And that’s great! As a functional member of society, you’re expected to do things like pay your taxes, pay your bills etc. Not sit in your council house collecting benefit cheques.

But imagine that you’re from an extremely poor and/or war torn country. All your friends are like “I’m going to the UK.. As an asylum seeker, you get a house, they pay your taxes, you get benefits, free health care, your kid can go to school”. You can’t blame these people for wanting to go to the UK – it’s not really a tough decision. Either they risk getting killed or they get a nice house and full benefits. It’s not their fault, it’s the government’s fault for making the whole thing way too easy.

But back to these tests.. Really, it’s too little too late. If the government was serious about this plan, then for the time being they should completely stop immigration – no more new applicants or people at boarders. They  should bring the troops back from Afghanistan and post them at the boarders if it will help. Then they should perform a full census, ask people where they are from, do they speak English, maybe that will mean printing forms in different languages, if so, so be it. The government needs to know who is where and doing what. Kick out the people who are illegals or bogus asylum seekers. Then start repairing the country – the now broke, ruined dump that used to be a Great country.

Also, sub-standard command of the English language by a pretty big portion of the indigenous population needs to be addressed. The current government has decimated the education system. Children are struggling with large class sizes, inferior teaching and being brainwashed by multiculturalism and labelled racists over playground spats. University students are burdened with extraordinary amounts of debt and their chances of finding employment are constantly diminishing. All the while, hoards of foreigners are being let in and the government is forking out huge amounts of money to educate them and translate for them. I don’t even want to talk about pensioners and the pittance that they are receiving…

And then there was the story today where an unregistered childminder from Malaysia who was found guilty of manslaughter for killing the baby who was in her care. After being sentenced in May 2008, she served the minimum term of her 5 year sentence and was put on a plane back to Malaysia 2 weeks ago with a voucher worth £4,500 for her to spend on her return home. Essentially, the money is a bribe for the individual to get out of the country – or a “voluntary scheme offering illegal immigrants incentives to return”. The money is given as “financial assistance” so that they can get health care, education, start a business, etc. when they return home. For a country like Malaysia, this is a HUGE sum of money. The poor parents of this baby must be furious!

What is wrong with this government, paying people to come in, paying them to get out. It’s Madness!  It’s like the Boxing Day Sales when people are lining up at 4 am waiting for the shops to open. Imagine if a  shop were to sell everything for 1 penny, how many people will be lining up outside. There are always those sneaky people who try to push to the front of the line… Now imagine the shop workers will give people who are pushing to the front of the queues £50 to leave – more and more people come and more and more will push to the front and total chaos will ensue. Sound familiar???

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