Starrmer tightens the rules of immigration with a white book
« When people come to our country, they also need to contribute to integration, learn our language. The system must clearly distinguish those who do this and do not, » Starr said shortly before the announcement of the White Paper, writes ThePienews.com.
The government has presented plans to terminate the « unsuccessful market experiment » in mass immigration, limiting visas for qualified workers only to positions requiring higher education, Reuters reported. Business will be obliged to increase the training of local workers.
| According to the new government plans, visas for qualified workers will only be issued for people with higher education. Visas for low -skilled jobs will only be issued in sectors of critical importance for the country’s industrial strategy, and in return for companies to increase the training of British workers. |
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Companies in the health care sector will no longer be able to apply for visas for workers hired from abroad.
High levels of legal migration were one of the main factors that led to Brexit in 2016. Many voters were dissatisfied with the free movement of labor within the Union.
After the United Kingdom finally left the EU in 2020, the conservative government then lowered the threshold to obtain visas. This allowed professions, such as yoga instructors hired to walk dogs and DJs, to run for visas for qualified workers.
| « We inherited a failed immigration system in which the previous government replaced the free movement with a market experiment, » Interior Minister Yvet Cooper said. « We take decisive action to restore control and order in the immigration system. » |
Net migration – the number of people entering the United Kingdom, minus the number of departments – reached a record 906 thousand people for the year until June 2023 compared to 184 thousand during the same period of 2019, when the country was still part of the EU.
Cooper said the combination of changes to the rules for low -skilled visas and closure of visas for foreign workers in the health care sector is likely to lead to a decrease in the number of visas issued for low -skilled workers with up to 50 thousand this year.
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British employers have expressed concern about government plans to tighten foreign workers’ rules. According to them, without these workers, the lack of personnel in the labor market cannot be filled.
