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Britain tightens immigration law

New Delhi, Wed, 07 May 2008 NI Wire

To avoid the non-European persons and following the agreement ‘to strengthen the European Union’, United Kingdom has revised the second phase of immigration law. The first phase of immigration law was introduced in February this year.


According to this new immigration law, before appointing to any higher skilled person, the recruiting company would have to prove it before government that it had initially applied in Europe and couldn’t find the skilled workers in European Economic Area.

‘The companies would have to advertise first in UK before looking to overseas,’ stated new immigration law.

And, for qualifying Visa, the beneficiaries will have to prove his/her eligibility of relevant tier. UK would roll out a five-tier immigration law in a year. This new immigration law is tier-2 law that covers skilled workers include teachers, nurses, engineers, chefs, builders and many more while the tier-1 immigration rule that was introduced on February 29, 2008 would cover the higher skilled workers like IT software, entrepreneurs, Marketing expert etc.

The new immigration law has introduced the point system to grant visa. The chances of achieving visas enhance as the number points increases.

The skilled person (under tier-2 category) would have to be highly proficient in English in all terms (understanding, writing and speaking), sound academic and professional background and must have the job in its own nation at equivalent salary of 24,000 pound for getting higher points. Moreover, the migrants would also have the strong job offer.

“The unskilled workers would not be entertained for visas”, said immigration official while “the workers like sportsmen and entertainers comes for attending one-off events will need not any points but will need a visitors’ visa.” it added.

An independent committee will advise ministers regarding the relevant requirement of skills suitable for the nation. The British government has made the biggest changes in its immigration law in last 45 years.

However, the ministry has not imposed the upper limit in terms of numbers of visas.

This tier-2 rule would together be roll out with tier-5 rule that covers the temporary workers like musicians, actors and sportsmen, while tier-4 immigration rule is for students and would be implemented by the first quarter of 2009.

It is clear that this new point based immigration law would wiped out the chances of unskilled and lower skilled workers from Indian subcontinent who are majority indulged in catering business. A large numbers of Indian protestors were protested in the capital and claimed that this ‘anti-worker immigration law’ would affect the business of restaurants in UK.


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sandy

May 7, 2008 at 12:00 AM

Can somebody explain how these guys came up with 24000 pounds (approx. 1,920,000 in Indian Rs.) per annum salary? This I think is a full stop for all kinds of immigration in worker class category (other than those from rich nations such as US). i must congratulate UK govt/people for showing their true face.


 

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