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UK Immigration Salary List 2025
By Paul Richmond - Managing Partner

On 4 December 2023, the Home Secretary announced several changes to the immigration system related to the Skilled Worker route. Amongst these changes, it was announced that, from April 2024, the Shortage Occupation...

 List (SOL) would be replaced with the Immigration Salary List (ISL).  The Immigration Salary List is a list of occupations where a reduced general salary threshold applies to applications on the Skilled...

UK Shortage Occupation List 2024
By Paul Richmond - Managing Partner

The Shortage Occupation List has now been replaced by the Immigration Salary List.  Click here to read our comprehensive guide to the UK Immigration Salary List.  When sponsoring a worker for a particular role,...

 employers need to understand how to apply for a sponsor licence and that the worker is sponsored for a job in an eligible standard occupational classification (‘SOC’) code listed in the Appendix. The...

UK Shortage Occupation List 2023
By Annie Ee - Senior Legal Associate

The Shortage Occupation List has now been replaced by the Immigration Salary List.  Click here to read our comprehensive guide to the UK Immigration Salary List.  When sponsoring a worker for a particular role,...

 employers need to understand how to apply for a sponsor licence and that the worker is sponsored for a job in an eligible standard occupational classification (‘SOC’) code listed in the Appendix. The...

MAC publishes Review of the Shortage Occupation List 2020
By Paul Richmond - Managing Partner

The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has published its Review of the Shortage Occupation List for the UK for 2020.  The report examines which occupations are in shortage and makes recommendations as to which...

 occupations should be included in the shortage occupation list. What is the shortage occupation list? The Shortage Occupation List is a list of skilled roles where employers find it difficult to secure...

MAC urges UK to expand Shortage Occupation List
By Richmond Chambers -

The list of occupations used by the government to allocate skilled work visas should be significantly expanded says the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC). But future UK immigration rules could render the shortage...

 occupation list redundant, applying as it does only under the current EU free movement system. The independent public body that advises the UK government on migration matters has recommended that...

MAC Proposals for Tier 2 Entry Visas
By Richmond Chambers -

In an attempt to further curb the percentage of net immigration under the company sponsored Tier 2 route under the Points Based System, the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), independent advisors to the Home...

 Office, have proposed several far reaching changes for the year 2016. MAC claims that the corporate category is oversubscribed with many key industries readily recruiting from overseas, finance, IT and...

MAC Reviews Shortage Occupation Lists
By Richmond Chambers -

The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has published a report on a partial review of the shortage occupation lists for the UK and for Scotland. The report highlights that allowing small digital technology firms...

 to expand by bringing in experienced staff will be of benefit to the UK’s digital sector. The MAC is therefore recommending that a small number of senior jobs in digital technology, limited to people with...

Changes to the shortage occupation list
By Richmond Chambers -

The number of specialist UK jobs that need to be filled by workers from outside the European Economic Area is falling, according to a recent report by the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC). Migration Advisory...

 Committee The MAC is a non-statutory, non-time-limited, non-departmental public body, sponsored by the UK Border Agency of the Home Office. Its purpose is to advise the government on migration issues. In...

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