Different checks ? Sky 9.
Squarely on the head with that one.
The fact is it`s cheaper. X number of bodies needed to keep the shops turning over, keep " security " staffed - can`t speak english ? just take the money and keep `em coming.
Requests to Discovery Scotland ? Brilliant ! been in the country for ten days, not a problem unless you stole a car - and got caught - on your way to the interview, which won`t have hit the system by then anyway.
Unfortunately, the law abiding ethnics with proper addresses and utility bills et al, have to account for every day of the last five years despite death and illness of ex employers,etc.
We are probably whisteling in the wind with this one, but obviously it will be 2012 afore we hear the lilt of eastern european accents in OUR secure areas won`t it ?