Visa applications for some nationalities could be restricted

Visa applications from nationalities thought most may potentially seek asylum in the UK may face restrictions under new government policies. Under Home Office plans, first reported in the Times, people from countries like Pakistan, Nigeria and Sri Lanka may find it more difficult to come to the UK to work and study.

Ministers thinks an suspect there is a particular issue with people who legitimately come to the UK on work or study visas and then put forUward a requirement for refugees protection – which if given, would permit them to remain forever in the country. A Home Office spokesperson said: “Our approaching Immigration White Paper will put forward an extensive scheme to reinstitute sequence to our disintegrated immigration system.”

The nationalities that are possible to surpass their visa time span is not transparent as the Home Office has not opened up data on outlet inspection after 2020, required to a check into the validity of the figures. Many outlets from the UK can go unspecified, that means those who do not have a leaving information were often not still in the country.

Prof Jonathan Portes, a senior fellow at the academic think tank UK in a Changing Europe, said the influence that limiting visas would have on the number of refugees program was diminutive. He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that he thinks the influence here is not intended in essence to be about figures overall, it’s intended to be about decreasing the number of refugees argues which are spotted and seen to be rude.

“When you have any person who do come here apparently as a student and then changes rapidly to the path of refugees… you have gone contrary to the rules of the system – the government is putting in effort to decrease that.” Latest Home Office numbers reflect that more than 108,000 individuals moved to be refugees in the UK last year – the maximum height after 1979 when records commenced. All sumed together, 10,542 Pakistani citizens moved to be refugees – that was the highest nationality. 2,862 Sri Lankan citizens and 2,841 Nigerian citizens moved to be refugees simultaneous.

Recent data for 2023/24 also reflect there were 732,285 students from other countries in the UK, of which most of them were coming from China (98,400) and India (107,480). In comparison to the previous years, the figure of UK work and study visas decreased in 2024.

After assuming in premiership as a prime minister last year, Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to decrease both lawful and unlawful moving one country to another– but has earlier on refused to provide a desired level of migration, saying an “arbitrary cap” has had no influence in the previous years. Workers schemes to decrease movement from one country to another include creating it as a illegal offence to imperil the lives of others at sea, to aim small boat crossings, and cutting demand for overseas hires by growing tuition schemes for areas that are recently dependent on workers who have migrated to settle there.

Sir Keir has condemned the old Conservative government, saying it was not able to provide less desired level of migration numbers “by purpose, not misfortune”. Migration – the figure of people coming to the UK, minus the figure leaving – hit a record 906,000 in the year to June 2023, and then decrease to 728,000 in the year to June 2024.

New rules brought out by former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in an offer to decrease resettling  levels seems to have been one reason to the drop. The past Conservative government raised the lowest earnings for proficient international workers wanting to come to the UK from £26,200 to £38,700 and proscribed care givers from sending or their family which they relies on, to the UK.

Workers were previously tightly pressed into a container to make amendments to the immigration system – but that stress may have been more since Reform UK’s breakthrough in last week’s local elections. Reform won 677 of around 1,600 seats competed on Thursday over a clusters particularly Tory-held councils last competed in 2021.

In its general election platform, Reform said it would bring about a pause on unnecessary immigration. Those with special skills——for instance in healthcare – would still be permitted to come to the UK. Responding to the outcome last week, Sir Keir stated that, he distributed the “sharp edge of fury” observed by voters swaying away from the vital parties, disagreeing that it would kindle him on to “go additional mile and rapidly” in bringing Worker’s pledged opportunity to immigration and public services.

Chief Executive of the Refugee Council, Enver Solomon, stated that “some individuals on work or study visas may endanger their lives  because the political affairs in their home country has transformed”, again he said that it was lawful and acceptable they were “secured from danger and offered positive minds in the refugee system”. Schemes to address outstaying were earlier on being processed prior to the local elections.

SOURCE: BBC

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