London - Immigration laws are very important internationally, they are interconnected with the careers of different nationalities. Before framing these laws it is necessary to keep in view the interests of all concerned, good laws are those which do not create problems.

Though UK is well known for making good laws but this it looks to have failed. Its new Immigration Laws have disturbed many countries. The new clause in the Immigration Rules imposes an objectionable condition that one will have to obtain work permit before coming to Britain either for training or employment and that has disturbed many non-European Union countries. 

The non-European Union countries have lodged their protests against these Immigration Laws and now the large number of Indian doctors have also joined their counterparts from NEU countries to join with them to support their cause.

Hundreds of angry overseas doctors demonstrated outside the Health Department shouting slogans that are "betrayed" by the sudden change in the immigration rules under which work permits to doctors from non-E.U. countries would be given only against specific vacancies for which suitable "home-grown" doctors are not available.

If this rule applies, all those people including doctors, who are already here, and do not have a work permit, will be forced to return home, and apply again according to Hasan Suroor of Hindu. This shall ruin their career they feel.

 "I came here at great expense to improve my job prospects and suddenly my whole life has been turned upside down,'' said one Indian doctor.

The British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO) said at least 15,000 doctors may have to leave the country without even completing their training. Many were heavily in debt.

The British Medical Association also attacked the move. It said a sudden change in rules was unfair to hundreds of overseas doctors who were already here.

Lord Warner, Health Minister, defended the rules saying they were necessary to cope with the growing competition for jobs in the National Health Service.

"What we have done is make sure that we are becoming more self-sufficient in training our own doctors," he told the BBC.

As per Dr. Jo Hilborne, chairman of the BMA's Junior Doctors Committee, "There is definitely a need for a new system where the number of doctors coming to the country is based on the needs of the NHS [National Health Service], but what the Government is doing is unfair on the doctors who are already here,"

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