This week saw the beginning of a new era in the UK, as the first of the country’s new compulsory ID cards were issued to some foreigners living there.
The first recipients of the new cards are some students and the husbands and wives of Permanent Residents who apply to extend their visas. The British government expects to have issued 500,000 cards by April next year and over 3 million by 2010.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said: “In time, identity cards for foreign nationals will replace paper documents and give employers a safe and secure way of checking a migrant’s right to work and study in the UK.”
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