UK Immigration News

Perhaps this is a positive sign.  Something needs to be done to make immigration easier before the end of the Brexit transitional period.  This should help reduce skills shortages.

It is an overly simplistic suggestion that reducing immigration will make things better for UK workers.  Tough immigration controls restricting entry of badly needed workers affects businesses so making the employment situation worse.  There is still ongoing uncertainty about how the UK will be abl

Isn’t this still part of the hostile environment policy.  The harsh and insensitive way that migrants and minorities are treated by UK visas at the Home Office continues.  The Boris Johnson Government seems to think that we should just trust the State.  The State does many things that are unlawful and at times encourages ab

Under the new UK Tier 2 visa points system from next year there will be winners and losers.   Some occupations are to be added and others removed.  One change that will be welcome to many is that you will no longer need to do the Resident Labour Market Test.  The problem remains that th

This scheme puts an unnecessary burden on landlords.  It seems to be part of the harsh “hostile environment” policy.  Its understandable that many people wish to see this system scrapped.

The end of free movement for newly arriving EU nationals will mean more skills shortages in the UK.  There are already widely publicised skills shortages of care workers and farm workers.  The situation will become even worse after the end of 2020.  The new UK visa system is unable to cope with this.