UK PM Rishi Sunak’s first 2024 announcement shocks Students
UK PM Rishi Sunak’s first 2024 announcement shocks Students
Students going to UK to pursue studies will no longer be allowed to take family members with them. However,
Postgraduate research or government-funded scholarships students will be exempt.
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According to UK PM Rishi Sunak while sharing a post from the Home Office in 2024, they are already delivering for the British people and was fully committed to seeing a decisive cut in migration
In July last 2023, the Sunak government published changes to the Immigration Rules which impact on international students studying in the UK.
Also, from 17 July 2023, international students are no longer permitted to switch to work route visas unless they have completed their course.
Last month, the UK Prime Minister affirmed that immigration was too high and that his government was taking radical action to bring it down.
Adding that these steps will make sure that immigration always benefits the UK and his government was banning overseas students from bringing their families to the UK unless they were on postgraduate research degrees.
In December 2023, UK Home Secretary James Cleverly announced a plan to slash migration levels and curb abuse of the immigration system, delivering the biggest-ever reduction in net migration. “Together, this package will mean around 300,000 people who came to the UK last year would now not be able to come.”
The Home Office stated that the package of measures would end the high numbers of dependants coming to the UK, increase the minimum salaries that overseas workers and British or settled people sponsoring family members must earn, and tackle exploitation across the immigration system.
In the year ending September 2023, 101,000 Health and Care Worker visas were issued to care workers and senior care workers, with an estimated 120,000 visas granted to associated dependants, the majority of whom the government estimated did not work, but still made use of public services.
From next spring, as per the government, it will increase the earning threshold for overseas workers by nearly 50 per cent from £26,200 to £38,700, encouraging businesses to look to British talent first and invest in their workforce, helping it to deter employers from over-relying on migration.
The UK government also made it known that it will also increase the minimum income required for British citizens and those settled in the UK who want their family members to join them. This new package of measures builds on the tough action already taken to tackle the substantial rise in students bringing dependants to the UK, which will come into force in the new year.
The UK Home Office also said that workers and their dependents accounted for some of the highest proportion of visas being issued, with Skilled Worker and Health and Care Worker visas accounting for 63 per cent of work grants, and the proportion of work-related visas being granted to dependants rising to 43 per cent in the year ending September 2023.
Cleverly continued that his plan will deliver the biggest ever reduction in net migration and will mean around 300,000 people who came to the UK last year would not have been able to do so.
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