The US Mission in Nigeria has vowed to bar corrupt, high-profile individuals from entering the United States.
The US Mission posted on X, stating its resolve to fight corruption and will not spare anyone, including high-profile individuals who engage in corrupt practices.
“Fighting corruption knows no borders or limits on accountability. Even when high-profile individuals engage in corruption, they can be barred from receiving U.S. visas,” the Mission said:
Meanwhile, Reform UK announced on Monday that it will abolish the right of migrants to qualify for permanent settlement in the UK after five years, if the party wins the next election.
Under the plan, migrants would need to reapply for new visas with tougher rules, and Reform would abolish Indefinite Leave to Remain, ILR, which gives people rights and access to benefits.
Reform has also said that it planned to bar anyone other than British citizens from accessing welfare. The party claims their plans would save £234 billion over several decades.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves said that the suggested savings “have no basis in reality” and the government was already looking at restricting migrants’ welfare access.
Reform UK Leader, Nigel Farage, said that the UK should not be “the world’s food bank”.
Launching the new policies, Farage said: “It is not for us to provide welfare for people coming in from all over the world.”
Under the current system, migrants can apply for indefinite leave to remain after five years, giving them the right to live, study and work in the UK permanently. It is a key route to gaining British citizenship and allows people to claim benefits.
Reform said it would replace ILR with visas that force migrants to reapply every five years. That includes hundreds of thousands of migrants currently in the UK.
Applicants would also have to meet certain criteria, including a higher salary threshold and standard of English. The government is currently consulting on plans to double the average wait for migrants to apply for ILR from five years to 10.
According to the report by Vanguard newspaper on Tuesday, the announcement launches Reform’s fresh assault on what they brand the “Boriswave” – 3.8 million people, who entered the UK after Brexit under looser rules brought in by Boris Johnson’s administration.
Speaking at a news conference, Farage said that the main reason for the policy was to “wake everybody up to the Boris wave”. Hundreds of thousands of these migrants, who have come to the UK since 2021, would soon qualify for permanent residence under the ILR scheme.
In July, there were 213,666 people with ILR claiming Universal Credit benefits, according to figures published by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
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