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The length of stay allowed as a working holiday maker should be reduced from 5 to 2 years. At the same time the Rules should provide that time spent in the United Kingdom as a working holiday maker is aggregable, so that two years in total would be the most allowed. In addition, it should be provided that people here in another capacity such as students and visitors, would not be permitted to stay as working holiday makers if they had already been here for, say, 2 years; nor vice versa.
(iii) The expression used to describe the kind of work in which a
working holiday maker may engage has commonly been "employzcnt incidental to a holiday". The importance of redefining what this might mean is lessened to the extent that the length of stay is reduced. If the maximum stay for a working holiday is to become two years, as proposed, there would seem no need to amend the existing formula.
(iv) It should be provided that people admitted or given an extension of stay as working holiday makers should show that they have the means or access to funds to pay for their return or onward journey and that they are unlikely to need recourse to public funds.
(v)
The existing requirements for an intention to leave at the end of the holiday, and the absence of dependants, should remain unchanged.
Conclusion
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It would be helpful to know whether Ministers agree that:
(a)
the working holiday maker provision for Commonwealth citizens should be retained; and
(b) that the amendments described above should be included in the
revised. Rules to be submitted in due course.
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