UK’s non-EU migration cap at 24K

The Move Is One Of The Promises In Tory-Lib Dem Coalition Agreement

Despite voices of caution, British home secretary Theresa May is going ahead with controversial plans to place an annual cap on the number of Indian and other non-European Union professionals who can be hired for jobs in Britain. Indians are one of the largest groups of non-EU professionals to migrate to Britain every year, taking up jobs in the IT, medicine, finance and education sectors.

May is scheduled to place a temporary cap of 24,100 non-EU migrants who could be hired for jobs in Britain between now and April 2011, when the annual cap plan will be firmly in place.

May is expected to make the announcement of 24,100 cap on Monday while launching a consultation process to decide the level of a permanent cap to be enforced from next April. Placing the annual cap on non-EU workers is one of the promises in the Conservative-Liberal Democrats coalition agreement.

Under this new development only 3000aprox  applicants per month are eligible for TIER-1 across the NON- EU nations. This is the right time for anyone who wish to make their dream come true to work & settle in UK.

Sections of the Cameron government and sections of British trade and industry have opposed the annual cap plan on the ground that the British economy will ultimately suffer if employers are not allowed to hire the right kind of professionals from abroad if talent in certain sectors is not available within the country.
Schools secretary Michael Gove and Universities Minister David Willetts have reportedly raised concerns about the annual cap at a cabinet committee meeting chaired by deputy PM Nick Clegg. The Liberal Democrats had strongly opposed the cap during the election but agreed to it in the coalition agreement.

There will be no restrictions on the number of migrants allowed to come in from an overseas company to a branch in Britain under the temporary cap.

In 2008, net migration to Britain was 163,000. This was down from 233,000 in 2007 but the Conservatives vowed in their manifesto to cut this to levels seen in the 1990s when it was “tens of thousands a year, not hundreds of thousands”. @AGENCIES

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