Truss plans review of visa schemes to ease labour shortages

The Prime Minister is to launch a review of Britain’s visa schemes to ease the strain on UK labour shortages, reports The Financial Times.

by | 26 Sep, 2022

She is expected to make changes to the shortage occupation list which will allow certain industries to bring in more staff from overseas, such as broadband engineers, with the possibility of easing English-speaking requirements in certain sectors. Ministers have discussed proposals for a new visa that would allow workers from the top 50 or 100 universities in the world to move to the UK.

Easing of visa restrictions would see the waiving of employers’ usual duty to prove that there is no suitable local worker for the role. In the longer term, migrants won’t have to meet the £35,800 salary threshold to settle in the UK after five years.

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