Home Secretary Announces Measures To Transform The UK’s Legal Migration System
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The Home Secretary has recently announced that measures to transform the UK’s legal migration system, bolster border security and drive down unsustainable and unfair levels of migration will come into force within weeks.
The Government website has posted the following information:
“The Home Secretary has underlined his commitment to cut net migration with the rollout of new transformative legal migration measures to begin, with new restrictions set to relieve the burden on British taxpayers and public services
It comes after the Prime Minister and Home Secretary set out a major new package of reforms in December, delivering the biggest ever reduction in net migration and tackling exploitation across the immigration system.
The robust changes, which will curb abuse of the migration system, and ensure those choosing to make the UK their home can afford to do so, will begin to come into effect as early as March and will mean 300,000 people who came to the UK last year would now not be able to come.
They include:
- reforms that will restrict care workers from bringing dependants and require care providers to register with the Care Quality Commission if they are sponsoring migrants, which will come into force on 11 March
- the laying of Immigration Rules, which will include the removal of the 20% going rate discount for occupations on the Shortage Occupation List on 14 March
- a new increase to the minimum salary required for those arriving on the Skilled Worker visa, from £26,200 to £38,700, on 4 April
- increasing the minimum income requirement threshold in stages for family visas, starting at £29,000 from 11 April
Reforms to student visas came into force at the start of January, ending the ability of nearly all postgraduate students to bring dependants to the UK.
The measures will crack down on rising migration, help curb the abuse of the Health and Care visa route, where we have seen people come to the UK for care worker jobs that do not exist or are paid significantly less than the required salary for a migrant worker on this route, and ensure British labour is not undercut by overseas workers.”
Home Secretary James Cleverly said:
“I’ve been clear that migration is too high and we must get back to sustainable levels. Last year I set out robust measures to reduce the numbers coming into our country –tightening the rules on care workers, skilled workers, and making sure that people can support their family members that they bring over. It is a firm approach, but a fair one, and gives those affected time to prepare whilst ensuring that migration comes down. The British people want to see action, not words. We are delivering the change we promised and which they expect, lifting pressure on public services and protecting British workers with the utmost urgency.”
To read more, please click the following link:
www.gov.uk/government/news/home-secretary-underlines-commitment-to-cut-net-migration
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