- Home Office preview of Monday's Immigration White Paper Work skilled visa threshold will be "RQF6" - jobs needing undergraduate degree/equivalent Below that, visas would be time-limited + contingent on training plans. {RQF 3-5 examples: chefs, teaching assistants} www.gov.uk/government/n...
May 11, 2025 07:43
- “We will be closing the care worker visa for overseas recruitment”, Yvette Cooper on Sky News. A significant & unanticipated announcement. Care workers are popular: 22% would reduce. But scale of surge in number of care + dependent visas unanticipated, badly monitored: used for other purposes too
- Health and Social Care visa was so much of the surge in numbers + of the fall too. Visas issued for health and care workers & their families fell by more than 237,000 or 68% (from 348,000 in 2023 to 111,000 in 2024). Much of drop preceded Dec 2023 dependents ban after closer monitoring of the route.
- Health Secretary Streeting backed closure of the specific visa route: will need a workforce, recruitment, retention, pay plan. Casey Review is 2028. Sounds like social care,without bespoke visa, will be among sectors who can negotiate for visas, if evidence of shortage, contingent on training plans
