UK immigration plan: main points

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British Prime Minister Sir Kerr Starmer has made comprehensive changes to the immigration system, which aims to “restore control of our borders” and ignore political challenges from the anti -migration right. Below are the main policy ads.

Work methods

• Close the care visa road Within months, as service providers are expected to be employed from a group of international care workers already in the United Kingdom while improving wages and conditions to attract home workers.

• The skilled work visas to restrict jobs at the graduate level, With the arrival of “limited time” granted to the roles that are decisive to UKIndustrial strategy, a sectoral plan for training and employing British workers. Immigration salaries list will be canceled.

• Faster and simplest ways “high talent”, Including scientists and designers, and trainees in artificial intelligence, and companies that create the presence of the United Kingdom.

• 32 percent increase in “immigration skills charges” Employers who employ a skilled workers pay him, with additional funds that they used to raise workers in the UK in the priority sectors. Incentives or penalties that must be explored to ensure that employers invest in training.

• Restrictions on bringing theists With higher salary sills for all visa holders who seek to bring the family to the United Kingdom. The lower skills workers in the “temporary shortage” of professions will face more strict borders.

Students and universities

• International students He will remain able to work in the United Kingdom after graduation, but for only 18 months, it has decreased from two years now.

• A possible tax on universities Students entered abroad, to invest it in the higher education and skills system.

• More strict compliance requirements for universities International student sponsors, including a new duty to consider local interests.

Asylum, settlement and citizenship

• Which makes it easy to refuse to enter or asylum For people who broke the law, while strengthening powers to arrest and deport criminals.

• Digital identity for all foreign citizens By implementing Evisas.

• Migrants will have to wait 10 years Before they can apply for the UK’s settlement, instead of five years, with a proposed rapid path for those who can show their “contribution to the economy and society” through a “points -based system”. There will remain a five -year settlement path for the callers.

• The most stringent English language requirements For all visa methods, with higher standards of skilled workers and family members to show progress over time.

• New family policy To be determined by the end of the year, and covers all UK residents, with clear rules on linguistic relationships, skills and financial resources.

Impact on net deportation

• There is no specific goal for the general net deportation But the government expects to reduce measures from the number of people who reach 98,000 per year, in the range of 82,000 to 113,000.

• Restricting work visas on postgraduate jobs It will cut about 40,000 flows with an additional reduction of 7,000 as a result of the closure of the care road.

• Serious graduation visaThe most stringent compliance requirements can reduce universities and impose a new tax on international fees income by 31,000.

• The road for 10 years to settlement The flows can be cut by 18,000 a year.

• Expanding “high talents” Roads Only 3000 will add to the flows.