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For all visa applicants - the new list of approved English tests is out.

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/applicationforms/new-approved-english-tests.pdf

This list changes from time to time - every couple of years. Earlier in the year the government announced a re-tendering exercise ( http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/newsarticles/2013/june/84-selt ).

All applicants who are required to take a language test, please check the list and confirm the test you are planning to take is still valid.

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Reading : The new Immigration Bill is sinister and nasty - http://www.freemovement.org.uk/2013/10/16/the-new-immigration-bill-is-sinister-and-nasty/

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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt: elderly treatment 'national shame'.

https://twitter.com/johnstuadams tweets :
Jeremy Hunt suggests we copy Asian families and care for our parents, while Theresa May stops Asian Britons' caring for their parents in UK

https://twitter.com/BritCits tweets :
May stops Brits caring for parents oseas & Brits with nonEEA spouse caring for Brit parents.@Jeremy_Hunt & May need to spk!

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Why we need a movement to counter xenophobia by Green Party's Natalie Bennett :
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/why-we-need-a-movement-to-counter-xenophobia-8887098.html

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The Adventurers :
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1240875245/the-adventurers-a-short-film-a-huge-topic
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The Metock case :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metock_case

Blaise Baheten Metock and Others v Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform (2008) C-127/08 (known as the "Metock case") was a ground-breaking European Court of Justice (ECJ) case of major political significance, especially in Ireland and Denmark.[1] It dealt with the scope and applicability of Directive 2004/38 ("the Citizenship Directive") to member states' family unification rules for their migrant citizens.