Influential Indian-origin Labour MP Keith Vaz has raised concerns over the David Cameron government making it mandatory for Indian and other non-EU spouses to have sufficient English language requirements before coming to the UK.

A Glasgow-based Islamic scholar has told yo-ung British Muslim grooms with origins in the Indian subcontinent to marry women born in Scotland rather than “import” wives from India and Pakistan.

Britain’s new immigration minister Damian Green has indicated that students from India and other non-European Union countries will have to furnish a bond of a specified amount before coming here to study at British institutions.