Posted on 02/25/2010 10:25:53 PM PST by Steelfish
Two Passports A Minute Are Given To Foreigners As 1.5M Issued Since Labour Elected By JAMES SLACK 26th February 2010
Passports were given to foreigners at the rate of two a minute last year. Officials approved a record 203,865 citizenship applications, 58 per cent more than in 2008. Another 190,000 immigrants were given the right to settle in the UK in 2009 – a rise of 30 per cent on the year before.
Citizenship pledge: The number of foreign nationals applying to be British jumped by 30 per cent in the final quarter of last year Home Office figures show that 1.5million foreigners have become UK citizens since Labour came to power.
In 1997, just 37,010 were granted the status. Officials claim the massive rises during the past year may have been caused by migrants rushing to beat the supposedly tougher system of earned citizenship due to start next year. From then, obtaining a passport will usually take between six and eight years from a migrant’s arrival in the UK – rather than the current five.
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Well, call those two passports back!
In the end, the human race is suicidal.
Bye bye Britania.
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