Jacqui Smith Unleashes ID Cards
A PRESS release from Her Majesty’s Government: “The first UK Identity Card will be unveiled by the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, on Thursday 25 September at 11.30am.”
Media are invited to attend an on-the-record, on-camera press conference at the Home Office where the design of the first cards, which will be issued to foreign nationals from November this year, will be revealed.
Anorak has an insider there.
The Border and Immigration Agency will begin issuing the biometric cards to the two categories of foreign nationals who officials say are most at risk of abusing immigration rules - students and those on a marriage or civil partnership visa.
And when they have them, you’ll have one…
More to follow…
Posted: 25th, September 2008 | In: Immigration, Politicians, War On Terror Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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November 24th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
The government have the names and addresses of every immigrant in the UK??? If only!
September 26th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
test it out on the no no’s first, they can’t really complain.
September 26th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
My blog rant: http://tinyurl.com/3p6xqd
“We wholeheartedly support this move, for the good of Britain,” said Nick Hitler (no relation) of the British National Party. Reports that the BNP had put out a bounty on a “lost” data disk listing the names and addresses of every immigrant in the country are unconfirmed.
September 25th, 2008 at 10:44 am
And about bloody time too; I’ve looked a right prat walking the ID every night…