In message , at 17:27:52 on Wed, 25 Aug
2004, PJW remarked:

Please don't top-post, it breaks the flow...

This I very much doubt.

You doubt that the Home Office has a list of legal immigrants? Despite
all of those legal immigrants having filled in copious Home Office
paperwork and had Home Office stamps added to their passports?

Why else is there such a drive for a new
National Population Register and ID card, for which we shall be
charged £40? It's all a device to avoid charging the great data-clean
exercise to the general taxation budget.

PJW

In article , Roland
Perry writes
Except that the Home Office Immigration department has a list of people
who are in the country legally, so if you can reliably establish
someone's name, you can check it against that list.

--
Roland Perry