UK immigration plan: key points

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The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Sir Keir Starmer, has made changes to the immigration system aimed at “regaining control of our borders” and directing the political challenges of the anti-immigration right. These are the main policy ads.

Routes of work

• Closure of the care visa route After months, with the providers expected to hire the international attendees pool already in the United Kingdom, while also improving the remuneration and conditions for attracting domestic workers.

• Specialized work visas for restricting to postgraduate-level jobs, with “limited time ‘access granted for papers considered critics for the UKThe industrial strategy and a sectoral plan underway to train and hire British workers. The list of immigration salaries will be abolished.

• Faster and simpler routes of “talent”, Including for scientists and designers, AI research interns and companies that establish a presence in the United Kingdom.

• An increase of 32 percent of the “Immigration Skills Load” Payed by employers who hire qualified workers, with additional funds used for UK workers in the priority sectors. Incentives or sanctions to explore to ensure that employers invest in training.

• Restrictions to bring dependents With higher salary thresholds for all visas headlines seeking to bring the family to the United Kingdom. Workers in the “temporary scarcity” of occupations will face closer limits.

Students and universities

• International students He will still be able to work in the United Kingdom after graduation, but only for 18 months, below two years.

• A potential tax on universities Student income abroad, which will be reinvested in the higher education system and skills.

• Hardest compliance requirements of universities sponsored by international students, including a new duty to consider local interests.

Asylum, settlement and citizenship

• Making it easier to reject entry or asylum To the people who have violated the law, while strengthening the powers to arrest and deport criminals.

• Digital identity for all citizens abroad through the implementation of evisas.

• Migrants will have to wait 10 years Before they can apply for the liquidation of the United Kingdom, instead of five years, with a fast track proposed for those who can show their “contribution to the economy and society” through a “point -based system”. There will still be a five -year settlement path for the dependents.

• Harshest requirements of the English language For all visa routes, with the highest standards expected by specialized workers and family members expected to show progress over time.

• A new family policy It will be established by the end of the year, covering all residents of the United Kingdom, with clear rules on relationships, language skills, financial resources.

Impact on clean migration

• No target set for global net migration But the Government hopes that the measures will reduce the number of people reaching 98,000 a year, among a range of 82,000 to 113,000.

• Restricting job visas to graduated jobs It will reduce entries to about 40,000 with an additional reduction of 7,000 as a result of closing the healthcare route.

• A shorter postgraduate work visaThe hardest compliance requirements of universities and a new rate on the income of international rates could reduce income by 31,000 in total.

• The ten -year route to the settlement Could reduce tickets from 18,000 a year.

• An expansion of “high talent” routes would add only 3,000 to the tickets.