UK Immigration News

UK visa clampdown for foreign skilled workers is threatening global tech firms December 21, 2015

The immigration advisers of the UK government are urging for the clampdown on the visas for the skilled employees who seek to work in the UK from non EU countries, a measure that will be a threat to the international technology firms in Britain.The UK Home Office is finding out ways to squeeze the regulations for its T...

Five million overseas nationals are living in the UK December 19, 2015

The number of overseas citizens who are residing in the UK has hit the five million mark; this is according to the latest statistics that were released. The total has increased by one million since the year 2009. It means that out of every 12 people who are living in the UK previous year, one is a foreigner. Only Germa...

UK keen to attract as many students from India as possible December 19, 2015

The Chevening scholarship program which has been started by the UK Government is proving to be world’s largest scholarship program and it is also extending around 130 scholarships with budget of 2.6 million pounds for the year 2015-2016, told Acting High Commissioner to India, Mr. Andrew Soper.Mr. Soper had current...

The UK immigration cap might be counterproductive says Committee December 18, 2015

As per the parliamentary report, the immigration limit of the UK Government is not effective in bringing down the net migration figures and might be counterproductive.Home Affairs Select Committee had released a document in which it says that the policies which are designed for minimizing the migration rate to the UK h...

Latest Tier 2 immigration rules would not help with shortage of cyber security jobs in the UK December 17, 2015

The statement of modifications by the immigration rules of the UK had earlier stated that the cyber security specialist job would be added to the list of skills shortage from 19th November 2015.And despite its addition and also adding up some more IT related jobs to the list, it is clear that many of the firms would no...

UK set to block citizens from Australia, New Zealand and Canada in favor of additional EU workers December 16, 2015

Britain is welcoming more number of citizens from EU countries who are not facing any restrictions on beginning their new life in this nation.According to the Australian Department of Foreign Trade and Affairs (DFAT), a latest tranche of the UK visa regulations is all set to come into force by next year and the governm...

Proposed commonwealth visa scheme intended to attract more students from India December 16, 2015

With the Indian students who are highly sought after with the foreign higher education sector, the Mayor of London Boris Johnson had recently proposed a latest visa scheme which intends to pull more students from India to the British Universities.This proposed visa permits the students from the Commonwealth partners ...

UK Government requires fresh immigration policy if economy is to develop says CBI December 15, 2015

UK required a two track solution for raising the skills. UK requires urgently developing their own young individuals and at similar time UK should be open for the talent from across the globe.There is an important concern by people about social affect of increasing levels of the immigration. The UK immigration has he...

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