The Government has announced a series of measures to curb immigration
Home Secretary James Cleverly set out a new five-point plan to reduce immigration, including banning care workers from bringing their families to the UK and raising the minimum salary for a skilled worker visa.
Speaking in the House of Commons,Cleverley described the move as the biggest ever reduction in net migration meaning 300,000 fewer people’
Cleverly said the salary threshold for overseas skilled workers coming to the UK would increase to £38,700 from next spring while Overseas care workers will be stopped from bringing family dependents
He also announced a review of the types of jobs on the government’s list of short-staffed sectors, as well as cutting the discount applied to the minimum salaries needed to come and work in these sectors.
The minimum threshold for a family visa will be raised from £18,600 to £38,700 and The government will ask its Migration Advisory Committee to review the graduate visa route.
Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the statement is “an admission of years of total failure.”
Cleverley is still due to fly off to Rwanda this week to agree a new treaty with the African nation’s government.
