Britain Proposes Tightening Visa Rules to Reduce Legal Migration

The British government is seeking to tighten visa requirements to curb the number of workers arriving in the country through legal routes.

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LONDON -

The measures, outlined in the Immigration White Paper, propose new graduate-level requirements for skilled visa applicants and limits on lower-skilled visas.

A group will be assigned to identify where industries rely too much on foreign labour, according to a Home Office announcement on May 11.

The Home Office said one of the measures will be to grant lower-skilled, time-limited visas only on the basis of strong evidence of worker shortages and where employers can commit to increasing domestic skills and recruitment.