Foreign workers will need salary of over £30,000 to enter UK: Report
Recently, workers outside shortage occupations currently require a salary of at least £26,200
UK grants visas to more than 1.4 million migrants per year to work, study, or escape conflict or oppression
Updated: Nov 21st, 2023
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Foreign workers will need a salary of more than £30,000 (₹31,32,800) to come to Britain as ministers set out proposals to reduce net migration levels by raising the salary threshold for skilled professionals, according to a media report.
The proposal, which is yet to be finalised, comes ahead of Nov 16’s net migration data for the year ending June 2023, which is expected to stick at around 5,00,000, a local newspaper reported.
Current scenario
Recently, workers outside shortage occupations currently require a salary of at least £26,200 to take up jobs in the UK, which is significantly lower than the median wage of £33,000.
The number entering the UK minus those leaving, that is the net migration, hit a record peak of 6,37,000 in the year ending Sept 2022 before falling to 6,06,000 in the year ending Dec 2022.
Experts anticipate it may be around 5,00,000, significantly surpassing the government’s 2019 pledge to reduce net migration overall, the UK-based daily reported.
UK granting 1.4m work visas a year
The surge has been fuelled with the UK granting visas to more than 1.4 million migrants per year to work, study or escape conflict or oppression.
The proposals to reduce net migration were pushed within government by immigration minister Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman, who was recently sacked as home secretary.
“Net migration is far too high. For more than 30 years, the British public have been voting for controlled migration. But politicians of all stripes have failed to deliver the migration system that they’re seeking,” Jenrick told the media house last week.
The report did not specify whether the proposals will include restrictions on the number of foreign care workers -- currently 1,20,000 a year -- and on migrants bringing their families to the UK.
(Source: IANS)
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