Visa holders on vacation have 15 hours to return to US or pay $100k fee

Re:Visa holders on vacation have 15 hours to return to US or... by TheOtherHobbes on Saturday September 20, 2025 @03:55PM (#45316787)

Immigration exploded after Brexit. While the official line was "Let's keep the riffraff out". the reality was that the Tories used Brexit to bring in plenty of cheap labour from specific countries, and the income requirements are applied very selectively.

Foreign students were also encouraged to study here and remain after studying. Initially even family reunion immigration was encouraged, although that's changed now.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1536/cpsprodpb/5579/live/8ea3a...

The UK has been playing this game for centuries - bringing in cheap foreign labour on the quiet, then using that as political leverage with "We will protect you from the foreign invasion" messaging.

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Re:Visa holders on vacation have 15 hours to return to US or... by arrowsmith on Saturday September 20, 2025 @04:08PM (#45316919)

And yet, insanely, the Tories still get called "anti-immigration".

They were the most pro-immigration government in British history, by far.

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Re:Visa holders on vacation have 15 hours to return to US or... by jl6 on Saturday September 20, 2025 @04:14PM (#45316977)

Another explanation is that they were 100% anti-immigration but also 200% incompetent at implementing their own goals.

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Re:Visa holders on vacation have 15 hours to return to US or... by hermitcrab on Saturday September 20, 2025 @04:22PM (#45317069)

Rather than being honest with people about the pros (of which there are many) and cons (of which there are some) of migration, the conservative government increased migration while telling people they were reducing it. That is malice, rather than incompetence. And now, here we are, facing the very really real possibility of loathsome grifter Farage as Prime Minister.

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Re:Visa holders on vacation have 15 hours to return to US or... by SwamyM on Saturday September 20, 2025 @05:46PM (#45317866)

Same with the Republicans in the US and the deficit, "small" government, etc.

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Re:Visa holders on vacation have 15 hours to return to US or... by johnnyanmac on Saturday September 20, 2025 @07:33PM (#45318579)

US conservatives had the same issue before this year. They'd regularly vote against stronger immigration policies, because it turns out rich donors like under-paying non-citizens.

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Re:Visa holders on vacation have 15 hours to return to US or... by lurk2 on Saturday September 20, 2025 @08:15PM (#45318851)

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Re:Visa holders on vacation have 15 hours to return to US or... by rich_sasha on Saturday September 20, 2025 @09:34PM (#45319244)

Oh sure, immigration - masively up.

High-skilled immigration - not so sure about this.

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Re:Visa holders on vacation have 15 hours to return to US or... by lurk2 on Sunday September 21, 2025 @12:29PM (#45324173)

> The UK has been playing this game for centuries

The UK was 94% white as recently as 1991 and was 99% white in 1951. What cheap labor was being imported in the centuries prior?

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