UK OPPOSITION PARTY CALLS FOR SALARY HIKE ON WORK VISAS
Oladipupo Olamiposi@olamiposioladipupo247606
23 days ago
The United Kingdom’s Conservative party has called for a push for salary thresholds for all work visas to be raised to 38,700 pounds, by tabling changes to the government's immigration bill currently going through Parliament.
Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Philp made the call during an interview while revealing the party’s intention to bring to an end the era of mass migration.
The party, according to him, is also proposing changes to marriage visas, introducing a rule that immigrants will not be able to bring partners to the UK unless they have been married for two years, are both aged 23 years or older, and are not first cousins.
Philp said the previous Conservative government had announced plans for 38,700 pounds salary threshold for UK-based immigrants wishing to bring a foreign spouse, but claimed the plans have been suspended by the Labour government.
He lamented that too many people arriving on work visas end up in minimum wage jobs, calling for a new focus on a much smaller number of very high-skilled migrants, rather than mass low-skilled migration.
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