UK goment go hike di minimum salary wey dey required for foreign workers to take jobs for di UK, as part of plans to slash migration.
Di minimum salary wey dey needed to get a skilled worker visa go rise from £26,200 to £38,700 next year.
Di rise feature inside one five-point plan to curb immigration wey Home Secretary James Cleverly announce.
E say migration to di UK dey “far too high” and “abuse” of health and care visas don dey abused for years.
Conservative MPs don put Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and im goment under pressure to act on legal migration, afta official figures last week show net migration hit a record 745,000 last year.
On top of di new salary requirements, Mr Cleverly say di goment plan go Ban health and care workers from bringing family dependants to UK, End companies being able to pay workers 20% less dan di going rate for jobs on a shortage occupation list, Raise di minimum income for family visas to £38,700 from £26,200, from next spring, Ask di goment migration adviser to review di graduate visa route to “prevent abuse”
Di home secretary claim say di five changes to di UK immigration system go mean “more dan 300,000 pipo wey come UK last year, go now no dey able to”.
“Enough is enough,” Mr Cleverly tok. “Immigration policy must be fair, legal, and sustainable.”
Wen dem ask whether care workers go dey stopped from coming to di UK because dem no go dey able to bring families, di home secretary say e believe say an individual with a family fit dey discouraged, but care workers still dey wey go dey willing to put themselves forward.
Labour shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper say di migration plan was “anoda example of di total confusion at di heart of dis goment”.
She say while net migration “suppose come down”, “proper plan” need to dey for training and recruiting British workers.
Unison general secretary Christina McAnea say di “cruel plans spell total disaster for di NHS and social care”.
“Migrant workers bin dey encouraged to come here because both sectors dey critically short of staff. Hospitals and care homes simply no fit function without dem,” she tok.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak don promise to reduce migration levels, wey don rise since Brexit despite di Tory 2019 election promise to reduce dem.
On Monday, im spokesman tell reporters say migration dey too high, and “abuse” of visas dey go on.
However, latest statistics show di challenge ministers go face in reducing migration into di health sector, wey don come to rely heavily on hiring workers from abroad.
Di statistics show di number of health and care worker visas wey dey issued in di year to September stand at 143,990, double di previous year.
In total 83,072 of dis visas bin dey issued for care workers and home workers – a sector wey dey face staffing shortages and wia providers don resist control on dia ability to hire foreign staff.
Di goment migration advisers bin tok before say “persistent underfunding” of local councils, wey dey fund most adult social care, na di most important factor for di staffing crisis.
