UK visa cap needs to be reviewed—Immigrant Council

United Kingdom, 28th September: The UK visa cap on non-EU migrants introduced by the coalition government of the UK is limiting the number of non-EU skilled workers to move to the UK, claims the immigrant council.

Hence, the JCWI (Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants) has urged for a review of the temporary cap on the UK visas.

According to chief executive of the JCWI, Habib Rahman, the UK has one of the robust systems of immigration in the Europe. He refuted that the current immigration levels in the UK were putting a strain on the public services of the nation.

Hence, no government of the UK can introduce restrictions on the number of immigrants to be allowed into the country each year because of any legal, economic and political limits. And this should have been in the knowledge of the Mr. David Cameron, the UK immigration minister.

Immigration is and will continue to remain a vital lifeline to different industries of the UK and to the NHS as well. Hence, any efforts to introduce arbitrary caps on the UK immigration will put the survival of the industry at risk and will strangle businesses, Mr. Rahman asserted.

If any cap on UK immigration is introduced, it will result in the insufficient staff at the hospitals in the UK and will leave the elderly without anyone to care in the care centers in the UK, stated Mr. Rahman.

The UK government has introduced an interim limit on the annual quota of non-EU skilled workers moving to the UK. So, 24,000 non-EU skilled migrants can immigrate to the UK from April 2011. The UK visa cap was proposed ahead of the permanent UK immigration cap in July this year.

There is an increased need for non-EU social workers in the UK to meet the looming skills shortage until the nation works towards training programs for producing desired skilled workers in the UK.

The coalition government of the UK is making consultations over the proposed UK visa cap since the new UK immigration limits have been criticized by several top politicians of the nation including London Mayor, Boris Johnson, business secretary of the UK, Vince Cable and Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister of the UK.