Immigration

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‘Not all DVS providers make it clear that no statutory excuse is being established when they carry out right to work checks on foreign nationals.’

An Office of Budget Responsibility official has published an essay in support of the government’s efforts to reduce net immigration and boost the homegrown workforce.

The cutting of 180 occupations from the Skilled Worker visa and the decision to close the Health and Care worker route to overseas workers has come under fire from the House of Lords.

Home Office agreement made with food couriers Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats to crack down on illegal working.

The Home Office did not have control of the skilled worker visa route after the Covid pandemic, say MPs on the public accounts committee.

The government has begun the legislative process for introducing the new immigration controls set out in its recent White Paper.

Following years of growth, the number of nursing and midwifery professionals coming to work in the UK falls by nearly a third.

The white paper says that people coming into the UK will only be able to apply for indefinite leave to remain after 10 years, not the current five. In most EU countries the application point is set at five years.

Migrant workers in IT and engineering professionals have a positive financial impact on the UK, finds MAC study.

Businesses with employees who travel to the US are being warned that there is a new level of risk attached to trips to the country.

The number of people immigrating minus the number of people emigrating is provisionally estimated to be 431,000 in the year ending December 2024.

The sharp decline in international student enrolment was not only a threat to the sector’s financial sustainability but to the UK’s broader economic prospects, it was claimed.

Last week, the government launched its Immigration White Paper. Ross Kennedy examines which jobs are likely to be affected and how employers should react.

Prime minister Keir Starmer announced the government’s Immigration White Paper this morning, pledging to drastically reduce employers’ reliance on overseas...