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Second Report - Asylum and migration: Albania
Home Affairs Committee
HC 197
Published 12 June 2023
Government response
Fifth Special Report - Asylum and migration: Albania: Government Response to the Committee’s Second Report · published 8 Sep 2023
Recommendations & Conclusions
5
Conclusion
Rejected
Para 38
Supporting economic development and promoting short-term work visas offers long-term migration solutions.
Conclusion
The long-term solution to migration from countries such as Albania where emigration is driven not by oppression or war but by absence of jobs and decent incomes lies in supporting such countries to become wealthier. There is no case for …
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Government Response Summary
The government rejects the idea of actively promoting short-term work visas as a means of transferring wealth or reducing illegal migration, stating this is not the purpose of the UK immigration system and there is no evidence it would be effective.
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6
Conclusion
Rejected
Promote time-limited short-term visas for seasonal or lacking sectors to aid origin country economic development.
Conclusion
We invite the Government to respond to the idea of actively promoting in those countries that have qualified unemployed workers in particular sectors time-limited or short-term visas for seasonal work, such as fruit-picking, or in sectors in which the UK …
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Government Response Summary
The government refers to its response to point 5, reiterating that it is not the purpose of the UK immigration system to facilitate the international disbursement of wealth, thus rejecting the idea of promoting short-term visas for this aim.
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