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Petition update, 18 October 2007

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The IND today published new fees for requests of Indefinite Leave to Remain & Naturalisation among other items. The fees for these have been increased by upto 250%. ILR - £750 (from £335) and naturalisation - £575 (from £200).

The justification appears to be that the perceived value to the applicant (and subsequent benefits on application being accepted) must be capitalised on. However this justification will fall flat on its face for applications that are rejected where the applicant does not get the benefits of a new status and at the same time loses a significant sum of money for no apparent service provided.

It also appears that the entire aim of the change is to dissuade people from applying or pay through their noses for the privilege. What stops the IND from fixing the amount at £1000 or £10000 even ? This is a further tax on a law abiding community that pays taxes (while not accessing public funds / benefits) and who do not have a voice in the crafting of such policies or fees. The one thing policymakers seem to be forgetting is that they are penalising future citizens rather than a community of migrant 'foreigners' with whom they obviously dont empathise.

Current signatories

John Shankarmangalam, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• bob rayner (immigrants are already net contributors, something that natives could learn from)
• Andrew Shepherd
• Gary Witham
• malcolm tremain
• Merin Tharakan
• Brian Painter
• John Line
• Anthony C Hancock
• Duncan Fairweather
• Lorraine Maddi
• Yvonne Ismaili
• David J. Barber
• Mohamed Kabir
• Nicholas Tidbury
• Supot
• Nicholas Li
• Alex Chepak
• Yufeng He
• Jia Xu
• Jag
• Igor Ostrikov
• P Lee
• Arvind Kaushik
• Sanjeev Kumar Singh
• Anacletus Oweh
• khalid hasan
• Kingkan Wongchiras
• Olivia Graham
• Chatsarun
• matthew rae
• Mrs.Benjamas Hill
• Nehal Dave
• N Deshpande
• SANDEEP PADHYE
• Brian Sandiford
• Mathew Carey
• Supicha Plyployrat
• David Field
• Walter Hatton
• Carol Hatton
• Amanda Hatton
• Gabi Secker
• Patcharin Sandiford
• martin mowbray
• Tom Mannion
• Yosita James
• lydia
• David Thompson
• Sarah Ridgway
• Nicholas Flynn
• Brenda Bleackley
• BFB Lam
• Ahmad Fauzan bin Ahsan Azzam
• S Kyriazopoulos
• P Cozens
• Ruth Handal-Farrow
• G Reed
• Chaweewan Bailey
• Sean Farrow
• Richard Bain
• Liz McDermott
• Stewart Scragg
• Ann Lewis
• Pete Thompson
• Kevin Banks
• Mike bethell
• William Blunden
• metta payoonkhum
• Andrew Jones
• cat
• Simon M. Nicholson
• Barbara Russell
• Norma Brotherston
• Graham Nuttall
• John Warburton
• niana panickar
• Jaffey Chacko
• Rishi Trikha
• Pricilla Jaffey
• Kamala Lochi
• LALU MATHEW
• David R Harries
• dolly kaushik
• Malcolm Campbell
• George Philip
• Jaison Eby George
• Abraham Niravathu
• Gina George
• Chris Kenward
• Annette Lynch
• Duncan Kinnaird
• c pappas
• tara pearson
• Lisa Campbell
• Robert Stapleton
• James Sullivan
• craig merry
• Idlan Zakaria
• Mrs Chittima Hokan
• MRS. B. SKARIAH
• Mr A W Shaddock
• Leiying Harrison
• Prince George
• Neil Harrison
• Shelly Abraham
• martin bacon
• Neal Walker
• Graham Short
• Robin Fawcett
• Blerta Ilazi
• Melissa Adams
• SONY JOSEPH
• Stevie Krayer
• manoj chacko
• Emma M Brati
• daniel organ
• Heaven Zang
• William Wu
• W Liaw
• Ebenezer Harris
• CHEE WAI SIEW
• Krishna Prasad BC
• Sandeep Singh
• Luisito Guanlao
• Stuart Hill
• Patrick Yung
• Ankur Khandelia
• Victoria Fernie
• Henry Elliott-Sackeyfio
• Andrew Lee
• Divya Donthi
• Dorciel Ngonda
• Wendy Guillemette
• William Corney
• Vijay Bhatia
• Tracey Williams
• Thomas joseph
• Adrian Smith
• Siripunt Puntprasert
• Barry Johnson
• Jatinder Puri
• Oladipo Sorungbe
• yen-ni chiu
• oluwatoyin adedeji
• Adebambo Ogun
• Adefunke Adegbiji
• Ehireimen Aigbogun
• cheryl paschally-masaga
• SN Chong
• Robert Mulaa
• KATRINA ALBARICO
• Simon Shekyls
• Shamser Ahmed
• Sulatana Islam
• Asif Adam
• Firoz Mannan
• john pratt
• Olabode Ajayi
• Christina Li
• ayo abegunde
• Di Jiang
• Olusola Joseph Fatoba
• omijie godwin
• XIAOLONG ZHOU
• Funke Abimbola
• T Eleye-Datubo
• Mark Ynys-Mon
• Colin Rosenstiel
• Kate McConachy
• Mick
• Xiaoyi Yao
• Megan McConachy
• Betsy Lawrence
• Nigel Ashton
• Rhian Beynon
• James Butchart
• Nero Ughwujabo
• Moulkhier MESLEM
• Helen Ankrah
• Mark Ankrah
• Marie tameze
• Robert Egwea
• Roger gajadhar
• Raj Rayan
• Matt Merefield
• Mansy Mwanza
• Melanie Griffiths
• Tom Lu
• Alida Guest
• Anne Murphy
• Mrs Francis
• martin perry
• Karlene Reid
• Adedeji Mosadomi
• Patricia Sy-Apoe
• Arona Sarwar
• Doro Oddiri
• Stig A Eriksen
• Giacomo Zanotti
• Bindya Solanki
• Dominica Kiraz
• Jeffrey Wood
• mothema
• Cleophas Chuma
• fidelis guyo
• Spiwe S
• Nonhlanhla Nkosi
• tafadzwa mucheri
• a mhlanga
• gerald mhlanga
• Menhaj Huda
• Peter Melmoth
• Tina van der Heyden
• Paul Fieldhouse
• Ali Bashir
• Why should they have to pay ANYTHING? Those of us born here did nothing to achieve this.