Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Andrew Dismore (Labour), on Friday, 16 June 2006, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 59 members in total.

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CHINESE COMMUNITY PROTEST AGAINST CHANGE IN IMMIGRATION RULES

That this House welcomes the demonstration in Parliament Square on 16th June by the British Chinese community, the first time ever they have mounted such a protest; notes they were joined by people from the UK's other minority communities, united in opposition to the Government's decision to change the immigration rules so that legal migrants, especially those on the Highly Skilled Migrant Workers programme, will have to wait five instead of four years for indefinite leave to remain; notes that those workers who have no recourse to public funds, but on the contrary, pay taxes and make a major contribution to the economy, now face uncertainty and hardship; and supports their demand that the Government should bring in transitional arrangements to allow those already in the UK before the rule change to qualify under the previous four year rule.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

2384 

Session

2005-06

Other sponsors

Mark Lazarowicz

Baroness Brown of Silvertown

Joan Ruddock

Sarah McCarthy-Fry

John Austin

Subjects

Immigration controls Protest Migrant workers

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk