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Chancellor's Spring Statement indicates greater flexibility for PhD level migrants
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The Spring Statement from Chancellor Philip Hammond on 13 March 2019 provides good indications that UK visa Tier 2 worker applications for jobs at PhD levels will be removed from the cap. Many experts feel this...

 is a promising indication that the government are starting to address the current skills gap in the UK. What was announced about Tier 2 visas in the Spring Statement? The Chancellor’s statement made it...

Three things graduate recruiters need to know about UK immigration
By Richmond Chambers -

As we move ever closer to the end of 2018, employers are starting to consider what they will do to succeed in 2019 and beyond. And, as part of that planning process, companies are currently putting considerable...

 effort into finalising their graduate programmes. But what do they need to consider? What are the key issues they need to keep in mind – both in terms of people from EU and non-EU countries – to...

Tier 2 visas still being hit despite medical restriction
By Richmond Chambers -

The demand for skilled workers is outstripping the number available with the latest figures revealing that the number of potential skilled foreign workers trying to obtain a visa under the Tier 2 system remains...

 above the current UK threshold. Figures showed that despite changes to the cap on skilled workers, which last month included the removal of doctors and nurses, there remained more applications for...

Demand for Tier 2 visa outstrips cap for fourth month in a row
By Richmond Chambers -

For the fourth month in a row, demand from UK employers for Tier 2 visas to allow them to employ skilled non-EU workers exceeded the cap imposed by the UK Government. Since the beginning of 2018, the number of...

 applications for the visa has vastly outstripped supply. As a result of the data, which was released by Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford, the high demand meant that employers seeking to...

Tier 2 Immigration Skills Charge to be introduced in April 2017
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From April onwards, employers will be charged up to £1000 per annum for each non-EEA worker that they sponsor. Background The new Immigration Act introduces a charge for companies wishing to recruit outside the...

 EEA. It has stated that this has two main objectives, namely to: Encourage businesses to source the skilled workers that they need from the UK labour market; Reduce the burden on the taxpayer from the cost...

Tier 2 Visa Rules “Restricting” Smaller Businesses
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The Scale-Up Institute, a group that helps small businesses with good potential, has warned that the visa restrictions in place in the UK are damaging the growth of small businesses. According to a report...

 from the organisation, the strict guidelines in place for Tier 2 visas are preventing UK start-ups from recruiting international talent and is “suffocating young businesses and detrimental to the...

Analysis of proposed changes to Tier 2
By Richmond Chambers -

The Home Secretary has asked the Migration Advisory Committee to look at proposals to cut non-EEA work migration. The proposals reveal a tension between what business wants (the brightest and best staff,...

 no matter their nationality) and what the Government wants (more jobs for British Citizens). The Tier 2 route is for workers skilled to graduate level, with some limited exceptions. It takes time to skill a...

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