UK Immigrants and the new 'renting' laws...

Nigel Farage is in charge now for a while....

So, when the UKBA gets a straightforward application, and it takes them 4 to 7 months, sometime much longer, to respond and process the application, and you have to apply based on THEIR deadlines, and it does not coincide with your UK letting agreement, and they keep your passports during that time (and even if you use a checking service, you do not have any proof that your visa has not expired!)... Where will the UKBA be providing safe housing for all of the Legal Immigrants who are rendered homeless by (understandably) paranoid and confused landlords?

I'm just wondering... Will it be in a nice area?

Maybe Notting Hill?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/queens-speech/10042767/Landlords-told-vet-migrant-tenants.html

I must be tired...when I first read this I thought the title said "new renting INlaws"  and was confused while reading this thread, "great I understand the problems with delays but what does any of this have to do with inlaws?"

Well, many UK employers have made that move, so why not landlords too? It makes perfect sense to me.

Well they've already done this for universities, airlines, banks, NHS, etc, so they're basically recruiting people whose main expertise is not immigration to do their job for them

Well they've already done this for universities, airlines, banks, NHS, etc, so they're basically recruiting people whose main expertise is not immigration to do their job for them

..... and then fine them if they didn't do it correctly.   

..... and then fine them if they didn't do it correctly.   

To be fair the UKBA doesn't do it correctly all the time either. ;-)

You can say that again!!!!!

The inmates are running the asylums!!!! 

Maybe they should just give all of the 'Legal Immigrants in the UK' some sort of 'special arm bands' so that as we are walking around, doing things like... Renting flats, and applying for jobs, and visiting the GP... We can be easily identified.

Have any governments in the past ever tried to do anything like that?

I mean, it would really make it a lot easier on the British public, and the British government... They would be able to readily identify ALL of us, right away!

 

Yes, about 70 years ago.