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Currently everyone has to give 15 days notice, but that will be increased to 28 days in England and Wales - and 70 days where there are reasonable grounds to suspect a sham wedding. Illegal immigrants will also be banned from opening bank accounts and getting driving licences as ministers launch a set of measures. Theresa May will announce the plans in the Commons today. Banks will be forced to check against a database of known immigration offenders before opening accounts for foreigners. The Home Secretary will set out plans to check an applicant’s immigration status before issuing a driving licence - and new powers to revoke those licences where immigrants are found to have overstayed. The announcements are part of a wider list of panic measures, which make up the Home Office’s Immigration Bill, to meet the Government’s target of slashing net immigration to under 100,000 by 2015. The bill will also stop migrants using the NHS, make it easier to deport foreign criminals and force private landlords to check they are not renting their property to people with no right to be in Britain. The Home Secretary wants to half the number of deportation of appeals. And she is expected to announce plans to force foreign criminals to appeal their deportation - AFTER being kicked out of the country. Other reforms will include changes designed to deter judges allowing migrants to stay in the country on human rights grounds. She wants to water down the article eight right to a family life - which she claims is being abused. A new bond system is also expected to be introduced, forcing temporary migrants like overseas students to “make a contribution” to public services to cover their stay. Immigration Minister Mark Harper said: “The Immigration Bill will stop migrants using public services to which they are not entitled, reduce the pull factors which encourage people to come to the UK and make it easier to remove people who should not be here.” But Labour said many of the new powers were already available - and accused the Government of trying to cover up their own immigration failures. Over 700 fewer foreign criminals are being deported now than under Labour. And the number of foreign criminals deported has fallen 13.5%, from 5,471 to 4,730 in the last year. Labour added that the businesses being fined for employing illegal workers has plummeted under the Coalition - from 2,269 in 2009 to 1,215 in 2012. 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