By: Lauren Codling
By Lauren Codling MORE than 1,000 highly skilled migrants in the UK, including professionals from India and Pakistan, are at risk of deportation, it has emerged. Teachers, lawyers, doctors and engineers seeking indefinite leave to remain (ILR) in Britain are facing being sent back to the country of their origin under a section of the immigration act 322(5) designed to tackle terrorism. Last Wednesday (2), the professionals, brought together under the banner of the Highly Skilled Migrants group, held a demonstration opposite Parliament Square in London to protest against “unjustified” refusals by the Home Office of their applications for ILR…
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