How many people are expected to take up the new Hong Kong visa?
Summary 1. The government expects about 300,000 people to come to the UK over five years on a new path to citizenship that will – from 31 January 2021 – be available to more than five million people in Hong Kong (nearly three-quarters of the territory’s population). This note summarises the government’s methodology in making […]
150 more trades being opened to global recruitment as unemployment rises
Introduction 1. The government have announced that the qualifications required for foreign workers to come to the UK will be reduced from degree level to “A” level when their new immigration system is introduced on 1 January 2021. 2. Furthermore, there will be no limit on the numbers that employers can recruit from overseas and the present […]
Is it true that Britons will not do seasonal agricultural work?
It has been reported that thousands of people, including many Brits, have signed up in the midst of the Coronavirus crisis to pick fruit and vegetables at farms across the UK. Record numbers of people in the UK are now looking for farming jobs (BBC News, 9 April 2020) following a drive by employers and […]
16 million workers in the UK would see their jobs open to worldwide competition
Summary 1. The recommendationsof the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), published on 28th January, would mean that the basic salary requirements for hiring some immigrant workers would, in practice, be reduced from £30,000 to not much more than the minimum wage. Occupations included would even include child minders. A bogus scheme for unskilled workers was also endorsed. And yet […]
Jobs and Welfare
Economic characteristics of migrants to the UK 1. Research by Migration Watch UK has shown significant differences in the economic profiles of migrants from different countries (our paper: ‘Economic characteristics of migrants in the UK in 2014’). For example, migrants from Western European countries had higher wages and lower rates of claim to key benefits […]
The assumption that migrants make a positive contribution to public finances has no basis in fact | Migration Watch UK
By Lord Green of DeddingtonChairman of Migration Watch UKBrexit Central, 21 May, 2017 In recent days the BBC have been repeating as if it were a fact a claim that the Office for Budget Responsibility has forecast that reducing net migration to 100,000 a year would cost the Exchequer up to £6bn a year. This followed […]
Migration Watch UK Press Comment on ONS Employment by Country of Birth Data | Migration Watch UK
The employment level of the UK born is virtually unchanged while non-UK born workers rose by 388,000 in the year to March 2017, accounting for the whole of the increase. The number of workers from the EU rose by nearly 150,000, of whom nearly 90% were from Eastern Europe. This confirms our view that we […]
New temporary visa for EU workers to plug short-term skills gaps | Migration Watch UK
Migration Watch UK have today issued a paper (EU Immigration, Post-Brexit – A Comprehensive Policy) on the prospect for temporary visas for EU migrants to work in jobs at lower skill levels than presently required for admission of non-EU nationals, such as bricklaying, plumbing and construction among others, for a maximum of three years after […]
MW407 : Summary of the Tier 5 (Youth Mobility) Scheme | Migration Watch UK
1. Tier 5 is for those allowed to work in the UK for a limited period of time to satisfy primarily non-economic objectives. It is split into two routes – Youth Mobility and Temporary Workers. The Youth Mobility visa was introduced in November 2008 to replace the Working Holiday visa and allows participants to live […]
ONS bulletin on immigration and the labour market | Migration Watch UK
Commenting, Mr Alp Mehmet, Vice Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: Today’s release confirms that some sectors of the economy employ large numbers of EU migrants, with EU14 nationals, generally, in the higher skilled jobs and the EU10 at the the lower end. Previous analysis suggests that EU migrants are a relatively settled population, especially […]