We are delivering the biggest changes to our immigration, citizenship and border security systems for decades – bringing in a new points-based immigration system so only those with the skills we need can come here.
The new system lays out the rights and obligations of legal migrants – including learning English, paying tax and obeying the law – and it will reduce overall numbers of economic migrants coming to Britain.
We have brought in biometric visas and are rolling out ID cards for foreign nationals. Electronic border controls will count people in and out of the country by the end of 2010.
We have reformed housing allocation policy, empowering local authorities to give greater priority to local people, and to those who have spent a long time on the waiting list.
