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Visas crackdown: New rules for foreign workers and higher salary thresholds revealed in immigration shake-up

Restricted permits for low skilled jobs, new rules for family visas, higher wage requirements and degrees needed for foreign workers are among the measures revealed

Evening Standard

Row over raising £29,000 family visa minimum income level: Record number of people try to sway decision

The Migration Advisory Committee is reviewing the Minimum Income Requirement for family visas

Evening Standard

Anas Sarwar claims 'talks with UK ministers on Scottish visa' – but they rule it out

Anas Sarwar has claimed he is holding talks with the UK Government on a bespoke Scottish visa scheme – on the same day the UK Government twice…

The National (Scotland)

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UK visa income test ‘cruel’ barrier to family reunions, says charity

Charity says thousands of children separated from one of their parents this Christmas are hidden victims of visa rules

The Guardian - UK

Government plan for foreign worker visa rules and migration to be published in new year, says Home Secretary

Yvette Cooper said the plan would lay out a workforce strategy for Britain and how industries can be less reliant on foreign labour

Evening Standard

Health and care worker visa applications drop 83% after rule changes

Foreign carers were banned from bringing their loved ones to the UK in March

Evening Standard

Labour orders review of planned £38,700 minimum salary to bring partner to UK

Yvette Cooper ordered the Migration Advisory Committee to review what the minimum income requirement for family visas should be

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OPINION - Britain should be training its own carers, not importing them — Labour must bring immigration down

It hasn’t taken long for the backtracking to get under way. The Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, announced this week that the Government would not, in fact, be raising the income threshold for migrants to bring a spouse into the country for fear that it might “damage the economy”.

Evening Standard

Visas for seasonal workers should be more flexible and are needed to protect UK food security, say advisers

Agriculture’s reliance on migrant seasonal workers is ‘unlike any other in the UK’

Evening Standard

No evidence foreign students are abusing UK graduate visas, review finds

Migration Advisory Committee says the risks are low, despite Tory claims the route is being exploited

The Guardian - UK

Some Britons don't want to 'get out of house and work necessary hours' after Covid pandemic, says Lord Hague

'There does seem to have been a changed attitude to work after Covid,' the peer added

Evening Standard

What are the Tories’ options for cutting net migration to Britain?

People have entered the UK in record numbers since the points-based system came in and ministers want to reverse this

The Guardian - UK

Andy Burnham claims government note shows Covid tier 3 restrictions imposed on Manchester as ‘punishment beating’ – as it happened

Covid tier system introduced in October 2020 and imposed different restrictions on English regions in effort to contain spread of virus

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson claims anti-Brexit campaigners having ‘orgasm’ over migration figures

Former PM demands Rishi Sunak use Brexit to cut immigration – despite his own broken promises

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End of free movement did not increase wages, Government advisers say

The Migration Advisory Committee found few businesses that had depended on EU staff had raised wages to attract UK workers.

The Independent UK

Ministers’ migration adviser backs curtailing length of student visa stays

The Migration Advisory Committee chairman said it was ‘unnecessary’ for foreign masters students to be permitted to work for two years after studying.

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