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UK immigration watchdog issues scathing report on asylum seeker accommodation and calls grow for Priti Patel to ‘consider her position’. Full story, here.

A number of new health roles will be added to the UK immigration Shortage Occupation List (SOL), the government has announced. Laboratory technicians, nursing assistants, pharmacists and senior care workers are among several jobs that will be added to the SOL, making it easier for foreign workers in these professions to obtain a Skilled Worker Visa.      The list will also be expanded to include health service managers, public health managers and directors, residential, day and domiciliary ...

A new UK post-study work visa route will officially open for application on 1 July, 2021 the Home Office has confirmed. Full story, here.

Rishi Sunak’s recent Budget announcement introduced a new ‘elite visa’ that will be created to attract tech entrepreneurs to the UK. Workpermit.com recently reported that the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer was expected to announce a new, tech-based visa. The new ‘elite points-based visa’ will form part of the UK government’s post-Brexit immigration system.    Ministers claim that the new elite visa will help to drive innovation and facilitate UK jobs and growth. The visa will spec...

MPs have demanded an end to a controversial UK immigration rule that allows for the deportation of immigrants sleeping rough on Britain’s streets. Labour MP, Claudia Webb, led fresh calls for the government to scrap its policy that sanctions a person’s deportation if they are homeless.   Under UK immigration rules that came into force on 1 December 2020, sleeping rough can be grounds for the Home Office to refuse or cancel a person’s permission to be in Britain. The Home Office has insis...

The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) has told a House of Lords subcommittee that a youth mobility scheme with Europe, similar to those that the UK has with Australia and New Zealand, could form part of a wider solution to the UK’s talent challenge for low-skilled jobs.   According to a document sent by the REC to the House of Lords subcommittee, the new UK immigration system and the end of freedom movement, which are outside of the new UK-EU Free Trade Agreement, represent key ...

House Democrats are weighing a piecemeal approach to immigration that would put more popular measures like helping refugees, agriculture workers and people brought to the US illegally as children first, leaving no leverage to push through less popular measures like increasing immigration for skilled workers

The controversial case of Shamima Begum, who left the UK in 2015 to join ISIS, took another twist recently after the UK Supreme Court ruled that she cannot return to Britain while she battles to restore her British citizenship. Begum left the UK for Syria when she was 15, along with two friends, and is currently being held in a detention camp in northern Syria.   Begum was stripped of her British citizenship in February 2019 by then Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, with the Home Office citing ‘s...

China’s ‘difficult’ job market to be inundated with 15 million new urban applicants this year A flood of new university graduates will intensify competition for jobs after the coronavirus left millions of China’s degree-holders out of work China said it created 11.86 million urban jobs in 2020, and the target this year is expected to be about 10 million

Anti-immigrant think tank Migration Watch UK claims that UK visa overstayer numbers have doubled in past five years. Full story, here.