Britain’s Door to Close a Little Tighter

Bad news for Anglophile dreaming of working in the UK one day, it’s going to get a lot harder.

They’ve already changed the laws this year to make is much more difficult (and expensive) to consider working in the UK. Now, they’re going to get even tougher.

A government committee recommended today that Britain restrict the flow of migrants even more and increase the qualification necessary to work in the UK.

From the Guardian today:

Tighter restrictions over the flow of skilled migrants from outside Europe are to be put in place to safeguard the position of British workers at a time of rapidly rising unemployment.

It is expected that the recommended changes put forward by the government’s Migration Advisory Committee today will cut the annual flow of 50,000 skilled non-EU migrants into Britain by 5,000 – about 10%.

The changes to be implemented under the points-based immigration system will include higher earnings and qualification thresholds, longer advertising periods for vacancies before they can be filled by a migrant and changes to the regime for internal international company transfers.

Read the rest of the article here.

Yet again, the British government is going to make it harder for skilled Americans to bring their earning potential to the UK. Grumble grumble. I can only hope that one day, they reduce these onerous restrictions.