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30/03/2024

Changes to UK Immigration rules for family and work visas in 2024

What are the five changes?

1. Social care workers are no longer allowed to bring dependents (that is, partners and children) on their visa.

2. The minimum salary to be sponsored for a Skilled Worker visa is increasing, with the baseline minimum rising from £26,200 to £38,700 (but not for the Health and Care Worker visa, which includes social care, or for education workers on national pay scales).

3. Changes to the Shortage Occupation List to reduce the number of jobs where it will be possible to sponsor someone for a Skilled Worker visa on less than the usual minimum salary (which is the main purpose of the list).

4. The minimum income normally required to sponsor someone for a spouse/partner visa is rising in stages from £18,600 per year to £29,000 and ultimately around £38,700.

5. A review of the Graduate visa, a two-year unsponsored work permit for overseas graduates of British universities.

When will the changes happen?

1. The ban on newly arriving care workers bringing immediate family has been in place since 11 March 2024.

2. The Skilled Worker minimum salary increases will happen on 4 April 2024.

3. An interim Immigration Salary List, replacing the Shortage Occupation List, will also come in on 4 April 2024; the list will be reviewed later this list.

4. The spouse/partner visa minimum income will first increase to £29,000 on 11 April 2024; to around £34,500 at an unspecified time later in 2024; and finally to around £38,700 “by early 2025”.

5. The review of the Graduate visa has begun, with Home Secretary asking for a report by 14 May 2024.

12/12/2023

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/online-immigration-status-evisa -is-an-evisa

Information on eVisas and why you need one.

17/11/2023

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