I migranti già nel Regno Unito affrontano più lunghi aspetti per un accordo permanente
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c249ndrrd7vo
di corbynista2029
I migranti già nel Regno Unito affrontano più lunghi aspetti per un accordo permanente
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c249ndrrd7vo
di corbynista2029
12 commenti
Allows them time to deal with the Boris wave. Need to get the skill carve outs nailed down.
This is good, if you have a Labour MP and support these changes be sure to email them!
The devil will be in the detail here – will those who have arrived on HSC visas be able to extend the now nonexistent visa or be forced to apply for regular work visas?
Will those who arrived under the ridiculously low salary thresholds set out by Boris have to reapply under the new, high salary thresholds when their 1 or 5 year work visa’s expire?
If they have to apply under the new salary thresholds many will not meet the new thresholds and either have to leave or become illegal visa overstayers. If this is the case it’s hard to overstate just how significant this law will be – it would be effectively a remigration policy.
I know this sub has quite an anti-migrant bent, but this cohort of people are those who are currently on Skilled Worker Visa and work here with the expectation that they’d get ILR after 5 years. Most of them aren’t getting ILR for benefits (the salary and wealth thresholds for the visa itself typically bar them from getting benefits anyway), but to have a sense of security so they can move in and out of this country as they please and to stop paying Home Office thousands to work in the UK.
By applying this retroactively, the government is shattering the life plans of hundreds of thousands of people here, who have moved here with the expectation that they don’t need to renew their visa to get ILR.
What’s that noise? It sounds almost like a can being kicked down the road…
Isn’t this just pushing the problem further down the road as usual ?
“The move will be subject to a public consultation.”
Not happening under their watch
The devil will be in the details here. If they say that if you’re not contributing then it’s a longer wait, but if you’re paying taxes and working and speak English it’s still 5 years that sounds fair. Extending it to 10 years unless you’re “exceptional” feels unfair. It’s too long to leave someone in limbo. It’ll also make it more difficult for people to get mortgages and buy a house. Plus it’s a lot of money to keep renewing visas. Also applying it retroactively is as they say, a dick move.
I imagine the public consultation will take so long that almost nobody who is already here will be impacted by the changes.
Changing the goal posts for people who are working hard and have been doing everything by the book is wrong.
And then will allow Farage in 2029 to ensure none of these people will ever get permanent settlement
I’m on a visa and paying additional rate of tax. Been looking forward to 2027 to settle and finally buy a house. Unfortunately if the UK tells me I’m not welcomed here, I’ll have to go elsewhere more accepting and pay tax there. Womp womp.
I find strange an assessment saying “this move wouldn’t bring number of ILRs down but would raise more money”. It absolutely would. Any sponsored tier2 migrant is very dependent on their sponsor and if something goes wrong on the job front – would be totally screwed. It is tolerable (barely) when it is 5 years, it is not tolerable to be 10 years. A lot of people would decide not to risk that.
Now it sounds completely cruel that someone wants to apply that retrospectively to the people already in the UK, and I do believe they target wrong cohort.