Research and analysis

Working Paper: A Framework for International Comparisons

Occasional Paper 89 explores an approach to assessing how UK immigration policies compare to those of other countries.

• From: Home Office and UK Visas and Immigration
• Published: 1 July 2010

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Occasional Paper 89 explores one potential approach to developing a framework to assess how UK immigration policies compare to those of other countries.

The analysis is based on a methodology that allows the wide range of different visas available under different countries’ immigration systems to be combined into a few key routes of entry (for example, skilled labour, study, family and so forth). These routes of entry are then compared against a standard set of questions in order to assess the ways in which different countries control applications by migrants in each of these routes.

Published 1 July 2010