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Skilled worker visa cap review due
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There may be more opportunities for overseas professionals to come and work in the UK, depending on the Migration Advisory Committee’s work in reviewing the Shortage Occupation List. The potential changes...

 have been revealed as they undertake a review of the monthly UK visa cap which is currently in place for foreign professionals. Now the government has put forward some alterations to the UK’s...

Financial Sector Requires Non-EU Workers
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According to a new data, the UK’s financial sector requires more non-EU workers due to a worsening skill shortage in the industry. The figures regarding the state of the financial sector come at the same time...

 that those working in the industry have expressed concern regarding the difficulty of obtaining a Tier 2 visa. According to SDJ Accountancy, the Tier 2 visa cap of 20,700 means that there are not enough...

Statistics Reveal Increase in Net Migration
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The latest statistics from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed that net long-term migration to the UK (immigration less emigration) rose to 318,000 during 2014. This was apparently just below the...

 previous peak (320,000 in the year ending June 2005) and a statistically significant increase from 209,000 in 2013. Looking at the figures in more detail, they reveal that 641,000 people immigrated to the...

OECD Calls for Immigration Policy Reform
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A new report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has highlighted a rise in migration registered in OECD countries after several years of decline, which it says is being...

 caused by an increasing number of people moving within the European Union. There is also an increase in skilled migration and humanitarian movements, says the OECD, and migration policies therefore need to adapt to...

The Genuine Vacancy Test for Tier 2 General and Tier 2 ICT migrants
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On 6th November 2014, the Home Office published new Immigration Rules which have introduced a number of changes to the business immigration categories. One of the most important changes for employers to be aware...

 of is that the Home Office now has power to conduct checks to ensure that advertised vacancies are "genuine". This change affects applications under both the Tier 2 General and Tier 2 Intra-Company Transfer...

Should Immigration be Devolved to a City Level?
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A recent report from thinktank RSA has called for more power and responsibility to be devolved from Whitehall to UK cities at the same time that additional devolved powers are being negotiated for Scotland. According...

 to the report, by the RSA City Growth Commission, devolution has the potential to boost economic output in the UK’s 15 largest metros by £79 billion per year – worth approximately 5% of current...

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