UNB, Dhaka

The British government introduces the toughest immigration processes in 45 years with a point-based system to ensure only the best can work in the UK, licenses for businesses who want to employ overseas workers and on-the-spot fines for those to be found hiring illegal workers.
“We’re now introducing processes based on an Australian-style Points Based System, which are clear and objective. These processes are backed up with technology such as biometrics - the taking of fingerprints and digital photographs… We now know who we want to come to Britain and who we don’t,” acting British High Commissioner Duncan Norman yesterday told a seminar on UK Visa at Lake Shore Hotel. [Read more]