Get help to return home if you’re a migrant in the UK

[GigiBronz]

I don't know what to think about this...

at least it is in the open I guess...

Get help to return home if you’re a migrant in the UK - GOV.UK

[northernladuk]

You feeling a bit angry at the world at the moment or something? Why not forget about this and the letting issue and just relax? Can't be any good worrying about stuff that doesn't concern or affect you.

[vetran]

I don't know what to think about this...

at least it is in the open I guess...

Get help to return home if you’re a migrant in the UK - GOV.UK

It has been standard for years for non EU citizens, obviously now we aren't in the EU its for non UK citizens.

Maybe we should just round them up and escort them to other countries like Germany, France & Holland used to do.

Migrants in Germany: Should they be paid to go home? - BBC News

If you'd travelled across the world to pursue a better life, would you move back in return for money?

Germany is betting that the answer is yes.


The country has long offered migrants and asylum seekers financial incentives to leave its shores, and until 28 February 2018 it's prepared to pay out extra.


Individuals will get €1,000 and families up to €3,000 (£2,650; $3,540) to cover rent or resettlement costs back in their home countries - things like basic kitchen or bathroom facilities.

Figures from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), which runs many countries' reward schemes, show that it helped 98,403 people return to their countries of origin in 2016. Over half of them - 54,006 people - were leaving Germany.Some 39,000 out of the 98,403 received cash (given to 61% of people) or benefits in kind, at a cost of $32.7m.


How does a government sell that kind of outlay to the voting public?


In Scandinavia, which has seen a migrant influx in the past decade, officials say it's cheaper to help asylum seekers leave than to house them in immigration centres.


Sweden currently offers grants of 30,000 Krona (£2,653; $ 3,550) for lone migrants and 75,000 for families, paid as a lump sum in US dollars.


And in spring 2016, nearby Norway made headlines for adding a 10,000 kroner "bonus" onto its existing rewards package for the first 500 asylum seekers to apply.

personally I would prefer not to reward economic migrants but £2000 is about two weeks of accommodation in a detention centre or B&B.

[Eirikur]

They did this in The Netherlands with Bulgarians (before they joined the EU) They cashed in, went home for a few days of vacation and came back on the next bus.

[AtW]

So if you've got dual British and some other nationality then it's free 2 grand?

[vetran]

So if you've got dual British and some other nationality then it's free 2 grand?

One would assume you would have to give up your British citizenship.

[Paddy]

If the government offered this to Indians, there would be an outcry of racism

[AtW]

One would assume you would have to give up your British citizenship.

For 2 grand?

[GigiBronz]

it's for min wage workers that are on benefits or precarious positions to prod them to leave.

they can take them back later on with a visa so that is a shorter leash.

I am pretty sure there are more things happening the background to push people out.

[vetran]

They did this in The Netherlands with Bulgarians (before they joined the EU) They cashed in, went home for a few days of vacation and came back on the next bus.

Pretty much what the foreign criminals used to do after deportation, I believe its harder now you have to marry a UK citizen.