Well that is interesting but of course those people are not the rubber boat sailors you have been carping about are they?Undried Plum wrote: ↑Wed Aug 25, 2021 10:25 amI ought to point out that by far the greatest numbers of illegals are overstayers who enter the country quasi-legally on a visitors visa and then melt away into the crowd when they should leave. The official estimate of such crooks is about three million, but some studies, using such methods as comparing sewage volumes against census returns, indicate that the true figure could be nearer ten million.
But not asylum seekers.Failing to present a Landing Card is an offence, as is filing false information on that Landing Card. Those cards are not some kind of voluntary thing. They are mandatory (for some furriners).
So why get so het up about rubber boats?The most common way for illegals to enter the UK is by falsifying their travel plans. I think it's six months that is the legal limit on a visitor's visa. After that, if they haven't either left or formalised their residency status, they are criminals and liable to forced deportation.
Here's a brief summary of the rules.
I doubt I will ever visit the UK again so those rules are no use to me and neither are they applicable to the rubber boat chaps.