Many people are ready to work and /or unovlteer but have sometimes been plucked out from their jobs and asked to be reporting at the police stations or Home Office for months and sometimes years as the government pay their rent, bills food etc. Some of them had lived legally in the UK for several years but suddenly due to some technicalities, they are pulled out of work and have depend on the government (if they are lucky) and become frustrated and de-skilled in the process. They are not criminals, they end up living in the UK for many years in this state of limbo, only to be granted Indefinate or Discretionary Leave to Remain after so much suffering and waste of public funds. They should be allowed to work in order to pay taxes and their own upkeep as their immigration status is being sorted. In some of these cases, one really has to ask whether the law is set in stone; was the law made for man/woman or was man made for the law!!