You can tell how ignorant much of the British public is on immigration matters when you hear the misinformation they spout as fact. What’s a scam visa @JacquesHarlow? No posters have even challenged that assertion, giving rise to the belief that a ‘scam visa’ is actually a thing.
For more than a year now, immigrants can’t bring dependents to the U.K. unless they earn at least £29,000. Care workers and most students can’t bring family members to the U.K. at all.
Only PhD and research-based higher degree students on courses longer than 9 months and government-sponsored students on courses longer than six months can bring family members to the U.K. So these are highly skilled people or those who are being paid for by their countries so they aren’t a financial burden on the U.K.
An unintended consequence seems to be that since Nigerian women can’t have their children join them, they stay home and the menfolk, who don’t have a tradition of caring, come instead. Needs must, because the economic situation in the country is very bad. And then elderly women in care homes have to put up with personal care being provided by men. I feel for them because I wouldn’t want that for myself.
I have to laugh at the British general public not being smart enough to realise that when you make the country an unattractive proposition for white eastern Europeans by voting for Brexit, the end result will be more brown and black immigrants. The hard-work, low-status, low-paid jobs that struggle to attract sufficient British applicants still need to be done and many eastern Europeans, feeling unwelcome, went elsewhere or returned home. This is likely to be an issue for those who complain about immigrants not assimilating.