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VISA CHANGES FOR MALAWI AND CROATIA
 
Malawi nationals will be required to have visas to travel to, or to
transit through, the UK, while Croatian nationals will no longer be
required to do so, the Home Office announced today.
  These changes will help ensure effective UK immigration controls and
reflect the Government's policy of maintaining visa requirements where
necessary, and removing them where they are no longer needed.
  Home Office Minister Tony McNulty said:
  "We have decided to bring in a visa requirement for Malawi nationals
to deal with growing abuse of our immigration controls, by both Malawi
nationals and nationals of neighbouring countries, making use of Malawi
documents to come to the UK. At the same time we have decided to remove
the visa requirement for Croatian nationals to reflect the dramatic
reduction in the numbers of Croatian nationals abusing our immigration
controls.
  "In the recent five-year strategy, 'Controlling our borders: making
migration work for Britain', we set out wide-ranging plans for asylum
and immigration. Key to those plans is the strengthening of border
control and cracking down on abuse and illegal immigration. It is essential
that we can ensure the integrity of our borders, to allow genuine
visitors to enter quickly and stop those who have no right to be here.
  "Visas are an important tool in effective border control and our visa
policy is kept under constant review to ensure that requirements remain
proportionate and are responsive to changing situations."
  This change brings the UK into line with most other EU countries, who
require Malawi nationals to hold visas but do not require visas from
Croatian nationals. Visa regimes do not prevent travel for the genuine
visitor but simply mean that immigration checks are carried out before
the passenger embarks for the UK.
  Notes to Editors:
  1. The Government five-year strategy for asylum and immigration:
'Controlling our borders: making migration work for Britain' was published
on 7 February 2005 (Home Office press notice 028/05).
  2. The new arrangements for Croatia will take effect on 22 March
2006. The new arrangements for Malawi will take effect on 2 March 2006. To
avoid undue hardship for nationals from Malawi who had already made
their travel plans, a grace period will operate. This means that those who
purchased tickets before 23:59 hours on 1 March 2006 and arrive in the
UK on a direct journey from Malawi by 23:59 on 8 March 2006, will not
be refused entry or permission to transit the UK solely on the basis of
not holding a valid visa or transit visa.
  3. Furthermore, a transit passenger who is a national or citizen of
Malawi and who is transiting the United Kingdom as part of his journey
back to his point of origin, will be allowed to do so without a visa
until 23:59 hours on 29 March 2006, providing he can demonstrate that he
bought his ticket on or before 23:59 hours on 1st March and transited
the United Kingdom on the outward leg of his journey on or before23:59
hours on 8th March 2006.
  4. Nationals of Malawi have generated an increasing number of asylum
applications; 45 in 2001, 95 in 2002, 150 in 2003, 170 in 2004 and 110
in the first three quarters of 2005. The level of other immigration
abuse by Malawi nationals is also significant, with large numbers being
refused entry or presenting forged documents on arrival, overstaying or
working in breach of their conditions of stay. 
  

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