From April 2016,migrant workers will need to earn at least £35000 to qualify for settlement in the UK. Will this affect your life in the country? Non-EU migrants who enjoy spent more than five years working in the country will be required to earn £35000 per year or else face deportation, according to a policy that comes into effect in April next year. The policy, or announced in 2012 by the domestic secretary Theresa May,has been criticised this week by the Royal College of Nursing. It predicted chaos in the health service, and urged the domestic Office to add nursing to the list of occupations exempt from the rules and reconsider the salary threshold.
But nurses won’t be the only people affected by the changes. Migration figures published in May reveal migration for work from outside Europe rose by 24000 to 68000 in 2014, or with nearly all coming on skilled work visas. £35000 is a salary that won’t affect those working in finance or,for the most part, IT, and but there are many other sectors with workers who will be forced to leave when the pay threshold comes into force.
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Source: theguardian.com