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iii) the age span covered by the scheme should be altered from 17 to

27 to 18 to 25. (This would bring it into line with the agricultural

seasonal workers scheme and with the Australian scheme);

iv)

there should be an explicit requirement that the working

holidaymaker intends to leave at the end of the year.

Why EC?

9.

None of these measures, however, would tackle the immediate concern at the

number of applications from Commonwealth citizens who obtain entry first as ordinary

visitors and then stay on as working holidaymakers. The most effective measure to

tighten our control over this would be to require an entry clearance backed by no

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10. An entry clearance requirement for all nationalities would enable the bona fides

of each application to be considered abroad. This would facilitate more thorough

checking of applications than can at present be carried out by the immigration service

why/how? at the ports. With mandatory entry clearance it would then be easier to apply such

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requirements as an intention to leave the UK after the working holiday and the existence,or likelihood of obtaining through part-time employment,of sufficient funds. An entry clearance requirement would also make it feasible to limit the scheme to

single people without dependants which would be more in keeping with its rationale.

While this could be introduced without requiring entry clearances such a provision might

be difficult to enforce at the ports. As an exception the revised scheme could allow for

the admission of married couples without children if both were entering as working

holidaymakers.

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11.

Moreover, developments linked to the External Frontiers Convention mean that

introduction of an entry clearance requirement is probably inevitable at some stage.

Our European Partners, particularly those with newly introduced immigration systems,

have made it clear that in their view non-EC nationals crossing the external border for

a long stay in the Community should be in possession of documents proving that entry

requirements are met. This will cover working holidaymakers for whom the document

would have to be a entry clearance. From the point of view of our Partners a long stay

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