Category Archives: General UK Immigration News

Speaking about the visit Damian Green said that “As Britain\’s Minister for Immigration, I recognise that I have a key role in taking this new enterprise forward. I look forward to using my visit to explain the changes under way in the UK\’s immigration system and the reasons for them.\” Many Indian firms and entrepreneurs […]

Mr Cameron’s Trade Delegation, which included leading cabinet ministers such as George Osborne (Chancellor of the Exchequer), William Hague (Foreign Secretary), Vince Cable (Business Secretary) and top UK business people was the largest sent to India since the end of British rule. Speaking on Immigration the delegation said that they wanted to work with India […]

Tier 1 General – Formerly HSMP The new Immigration Cap affects Tier 1 General of the Points Based System however other sub tiers of Tier 1 are unaffected (i.e. Tier 1 Post Study Work, Tier 1 Entrepreneur, Tier 1 Investor). You will also be unaffected by the Immigration Cap if you are a dependent of […]

The introduction of the Immigration Cap will realise a pledge made by the Conservatives during the General Election campaign to cap the number of non EEA nationals coming to the UK each year. Prior to the General Election David Cameron (Prime Minister & leader of the Conservative Party), said that under a Conservative Government net […]

Background In the run up to the General Election the Conservative Government included in their election manifesto plans for an Immigration Cap that world ‘reduce net migration to the level of the 1990s – tens of thousands, not hundreds of thousands’. Under the previous Labour Government inward migration had increased significantly driven mainly by economic […]

The Chief Executive of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, Kevin Green, said that \”There were huge skills shortages before the recession and if the private sector is to grow rapidly out of recession, it will need skilled workers to do so.  An artificial cap on immigration will affect business growth and delivery of core services […]

The Chief Economist at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), John Philpott, said that \”I think there will be a compromise with a limit on the numbers of immigrants coming in, but with the cap as not much more than a flexed points system, which is stricter in certain categories but has the […]

Mr Frost said that “We need to be careful that at a time when we need to get all the growth we can in the UK economy that we remember the needs of British business. The City for example relies on a pool of global talent; specialist engineering companies working in the North Sea, those […]

Recently the Government announced a temporary Immigration Cap that will reduce visa approvals under Tier 1 General & Tier 2 General by 5% based on last years figures. The temporary Immigration Cap is a short term measure that will be in place until the permanent Immigration Cap is introduced in April 2011. David Cameron, the […]

Immediate Immigration Cap effects on Tier 1 General (HSMP) The Home Secretary, Theresa May, is expected to announce a 24,100 temporary Immigration Cap tomorrow on workers (there has been no mention of students under Tier 4 so far). Although this limit grabs headlines and signals intent from the new Conservative / Liberal Democrat Government it […]