UK reverses some incentives for foreign workers in bid to cut migration

The Government are describing it as the "biggest clampdown on legal migration ever".
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As net migration soars to record levels - the Home Secretary told MPs the new rules would mean 300,000 fewer people coming to Britain in future.
In one of the biggest changes, health and care workers from abroad won't be able to bring their families with them. And it'll become harder for British citizens on less than average earnings to bring a foreign spouse into the country to live with them.
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[@KTopics]

A party with a foreigner in charge taking care of migration? Its the sickest joke I can possibly think of.

[@sp-vt4je]

£38,700? Like the average british folk clears £38k+ in any given skilled job nowadays..smh. Skilled job salaries are atrocious in the UK. These clowns are completely detached from reality.

[@marcocholo9444]

They'd prefer channel crossers and house them in hotels than legal migrants who actually pay taxes.

[@jazzsingh9738]

So we left the EU, so we could attract the beat talent from all around the world. Now we don't want them but there is no one to fill the gaps. What is this government doing! Flip flopping all over the place.

[@wbf200]

I'm a Yankee and maybe out of the loop, but I thought the big issue was illegal migration, not legal.

[@alf_lim]

As an immigrant nurse myself who worked during the pandemic and currently working as a specialist, it is sad that migrants are being considered the enemy. With this kind of restrictions, nurses and doctors will really leave the UK.

[@thisweekmetaverse]

My close relative is in a care home. 90% of his carers come from overseas. The idea theyd have to leave their family in Sri Lanka and other countries to look after my relative is abhorrent to me.

[@vanityfairsosborne]

How did the narrative go from cutting illegal immigration to cutting legal immigration, which we benefit from?

[@YTPS76]

As a British national living abroad with my foreign wife for 11 years, they have basically blamed their own problems with illegal migration via the boat crossings in to the UK by cutting spouse visa applications and to increase the minimum threshold to 38.7k per year, what a joke! I have been looking for work online while abroad to get back to the UK under the current rules but with April 2024 being only 4-5 months away, this is now impossible to achieve by saving 6 months of salary even if I were to get a job to bring my wife over to the UK before they change the rules. This is absolutely absurd that the UK Government is doing this to British nationals who are trusted citizens bringing their partners to the UK. And to also increase the health surcharge when the NHS has a wait list, why can't the foreign national obtain private health insurance as an alternative to paying they UK Government, it's always about the money and the corrupt dictators in government!

[@Michael-is2se]

Bye bye Rishi, don't let the door hit you on the way out. No more unelected clowns thank you....

[@rgfromkl3594]

I identify as an expat here with no intention of permanent immigration just like millions of British expats working in other countries. I moved here for the same reasons as they did; better lifestyle, more opportunities, an adventure etc. This rule on not allowing to bring their dependents is draconian. I remember the British media highlighting the plight of workers in the Middle East having to live away from the families as a form of modern slavery and now we have this.😮

[@pintohoareau579]

As an international student, I pay more than double in tuition fees compared to home students. I have utilized the NHS once, and I don't work. When I am done, I will return home. I love this country and its people, but as time passes, I'm starting to feel more like the enemy. Such a shame.

[@nil2176]

Don’t really know why someone in the right mind would even consider UK as a place to migrate to… People are way better off migrating to places where their skills are valued Silicon Valley, Toronto, Dublin, Sydney or Germany. UK lost its competitiveness years ago, it’s sad but the truth once a great empire now faced with a un-innovative brittle economy…..and to all skilled and smart Peeps America is calling…

[@daveross-lq5nv]

I am a GRANDMOTHER and "I MATTER"

[@GlynRyles]

It's amazing how politicians just do whatever they want with no real regard to what the people they are meant to serve want. They will argue they are doing what's right for the people, but they almost never ask us, lol, probably because when they did ask us they didn't get the answer they wanted. Shows how much we the people matter to the political elite

[@ayshakhatun1835]

The new spousal visa income requirement from 18k to 38k is big difference . People who got married before this announcement should still be allowed to come in with their partners showing 18k . I say this because the government said gave one threshold of 18k all these years and now because they had changed their mind on the amount isn’t a just reason to pull families Nd relationships apart , this is playing with real peoples lives .

[@richarddavis4378]

No, the government doesn't want less or they would have already stopped it

[@Lando-kx6so]

To everybody upset about this please voice your frustrations to your local MPs & sign petitions to get these damaging polices reversed.

[@jerinthomas2193]

I paid 25000 GBP as fees to study for a Master's Degree, and got a job here which pays slightly above the new threshold due to having over 5 years of work experience. On top of this I have to pay an IHS which is going to amount to 1000 per year to use the NHS, despite contributing over 300 pounds to the NI each month in the form of taxes, which is a significantly higher contribution than the average Citizen. Does the government think I am a problem?

[@user-yp7vq1ze6n]

I have been studying and working in the uk for 7 years, I’ve earned my grades, my job offer, met someone I love and made so many friends. Yet it is still so hard just to stay despite being very hardworking and having built all the ties to the uk community. I kept thinking I might just need to say bye to all these people and put a full stop to all these experiences because now I’m considered a problem for the uk economy.