has announced plans to
cancel the £3,000
cash bond that visitors
from 'high risk'
countries, including
Nigeria, were to put
up to enter Britain.
The government is to abandon a controversial
plan to impose £3,000 immigration bonds on
visitors from “high-risk” countries in Africa
and Asia after Nick Clegg threatened to block
the policy.
The move will be seen by Labour as a
humiliating U-turn for Theresa May, the home
secretary. It came after David Cameron
backed off from a full-scale confrontation
with the Liberal Democrat leader, who was
blocking the scheme’s progress through
cabinet.
A pilot project to target visitors from seven
countries — including India, Pakistan and
Nigeria — who would have had to pay a cash
guarantee or deposit to deter immigration
abuse was to have been introduced this month.
The plan was to make visitors forfeit £3,000
if they failed to return home by the time their
visas had expired. But in an announcement this
weekend the government said it was canceling
the plans
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