India, UK focus on migration, safety points as Indian envoy calls on Home Secretary

Cooperation on migration and safety points was on the agenda at a gathering between UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman and Indian High Commissioner Vikram Doraiswami right here, practically a month after her controversial remarks about Indian visa overstayers.

The envoy known as on the Indian-origin Cabinet minister on Tuesday to debate the India-UK safety partnership and to “make progress” below the India-UK Migration and Mobility Partnership (MMP).

The assembly follows Braverman’s controversial remarks final month that referenced the MMP as not working very properly in tackling unlawful immigration and visa overstayers from India.

“High Commissioner Vikram Doraiswami called on HE Home Secretary Suella Braverman today to discuss India-UK security cooperation, and to make progress under the India-UK Migration and Mobility Partnership Agreement,” the Indian High Commission in London tweeted after the assembly.

Braverman in flip referenced the “strong partnership” shared between India and the UK.
“I look forward to working with our friends on mutually shared interests including security and migration,” she tweeted after the assembly.

It is seen as a conciliatory transfer after the Indian mission had countered the Home Secretary’s allegations that the settlement with the Indian authorities to encourage and facilitate higher cooperation on unlawful migration “has not necessarily worked very well”.

“As per data shared with the Home Office, as on date, action has been initiated on all of the cases referred to the High Commission. Further, the UK has also undertaken to fulfill certain commitments as part of the Migration and Mobility Protocol, on which we await demonstrable progress,” the High Commission of India stated in an announcement final month.

It is a broadly held view that Braverman, then Home Secretary within the former prime minister Liz Truss led Cabinet, had derailed the continuing India-UK free commerce settlement (FTA) negotiations from its Diwali timeline by expressing “concerns” over what she feared can be an “open borders” coverage for Indians.

“Look at migration in this country – the largest group of people who overstay are Indian migrants,” she stated on the time.

Meanwhile on Wednesday, the not too long ago launched India (Trade and Investment) All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) held its inaugural assembly within the Houses of Parliament complicated the place UK Trade Minister Greg Hands reiterated that the FTA negotiations stay ongoing.
“India is projected to be the world’s third largest economy by 2050 – offering major opportunities for UK firms,” Hands tweeted after the assembly.

The new cross-party UK parliamentary panel was created in July to advertise commerce, funding and people-to-people ties with India, backed up by British Indian assume tank 1928 Institute.

The Co-Chairs of the APPG, Labour MP Navendu Mishra and Lord Karan Bilimoria, in addition to APPG President Baroness Sandy Verma had been amongst these current on the assembly, additionally attended by the Indian High Commissioner to the UK who spoke concerning the scope of bilateral cooperation in dawn sectors such inexperienced economic system and FinTech.