UK welcomes skilled immigrants
by Christine M - August 23, 2010
United Kingdom, 23rd August: UK immigration still welcomes skilled immigrants from India, the UK Prime Minister David Cameron has clarified.
While making a visit to Indian last month, the UK PM Cameron asserted to take the relationship between India and the UK to all new levels and to make the relationship more stronger and deeper.
Mr. Cameron maintained that closing the doors on immigration is neither beneficial for the UK nor for the other nations. he also stated that UK has gained much from the talented and skilled immigrants moving to the UK in the past 100 years.
Immigration not only is beneficial for the UK economy but is even helpful in enriching the culture of the UK in a great way. And hence, the aim of new policies of UK immigration is to continue immigration into the UK, although at controlled levels.
This is true for all nations who favor immigrants possessing requisite skills or qualifications for granting work visas or work permits to move abroad and the UK is not doing anything different by resorting to controlled levels of immigration into the country.
UK immigration levels touched a new high in the year 2004 when total number of immigrants moving into the country touched a whopping quarter million. This placed undue pressure on public services in the UK and caused tensions among various communities in the UK.
To avoid such problems in the near future, the UK immigration department has decided to allow only limited immigrants into the UK each year.
The UK government has reiterated to bring down the UK immigration levels to tens of thousands annually as against hundreds of thousands currently.
UK wants to attract and allow the brightest into the UK. For this, it has thrown open doors of immigration for those having desired skills for the jobs in the UK. So, it does not need unskilled workers in the UK and is likely to place an annual cap on skilled workers to be allowed into the UK from April 2011 onwards.
Till then, the UK immigration will be governed by a temporary limit imposed by UK immigration department to avoid rush of applications received before April 2011.
All such steps are aimed towards balancing the UK immigration policy.
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