Immigration News Weekly Round up 05 February 2012
Immigration News Weekly Round up 05 February 2012
How will the new ‘minimum salary for residency’ proposals affect you?
Following yesterday’s announcement by the UK Immigration Minister, Damian Green, that under new proposals migrants seeking permanent settlement, or Indefinite Leave to Remain, will be required to earn between £31,000 and £49,000 per annum, Immigration Matters has been inundated with questions from worried work permit holders such as Senior Care Workers, Nurses and Domestic Workers.
Human rights decisions led to ‘ridiculous and damaging’ situation, says UK Immigration Minister
The UK Immigration Minister Damien Green has warned that the way courts interpret the human right to family life has led to a “ridiculous and damaging situation” and risks a “dangerous” stand off between parliament and judges.
Settlement in UK to be linked to a minimum salary of £31,000 says Immigration Minister
The UK is set introduce a minimum earnings figure of £31,000 in order to qualify for permanent settlement or Indefinite Leave to Remain, the Immigration Minister announced. If applied to existing migrants, the minimum threshold would affect nurses, senior carers, chefs, care managers and many other occupations where the basic pay rate is less than £31,000.
Senior Carers to be removed from Shortage Occupations list following MAC recommendation
New recommendations to raise UK shortage occupation list to higher skills level and remove jobs such as Senior Care Worker announced by UK Border Agency 3 March 2011.
Migration Advisory Committee members reappointed
The government has this month reappointed the following members of the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC)…
UK Government to announce skilled migration cap numbers today
The Government will announce later a cap on the number of skilled workers from outside the European Economic Area allowed into the UK, the BBC reports today.
Immigration ‘unacceptably high’, and must be cut says British PM
Immigration to Britain is “unacceptably high” and must be cut, but this can be achieved whilst ensuring businesses can still import talent, Prime Minister David Cameron said in remarks on Sunday.
Weekly UK Immigration News Round up 19 September 2010
Weekly UK Immigration News Round up 19 September 2010 from http://www.immigrationmatters.co.uk/category/news
Former Immigration Minister Phil Woolas campaign ‘to make white folk angry’
The BBC reports that the former immigration minister Phil Woolas set out to “make the white folk angry” in his election campaign, a specially convened court heard.
