High earners to be eligible for UK settlement within 3 years of arrival
https://www.ft.com/content/9b9178ac-f047-4148-a20e-74c741a059cc
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High earners to be eligible for UK settlement within 3 years of arrival
https://www.ft.com/content/9b9178ac-f047-4148-a20e-74c741a059cc
Posted by Lazy-Internet-8025
26 Comments
Summary: Anyone earning over £125k a year will now be able to get settlement in just 3 years. Global talent and innovative founder visa holders will also be eligible for accelerated settlement.
NHS doctors and nurses and Hong Kongers will need to wait 5, as is the rule now.
Lower earning immigrants will now need to wait up to 15 years.
Those with no legal right to be here or immigration breaches will need to wait 30 years.
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“So, government, how much is does a ‘higher earner’ earn?”
“£50k. That’s when the 40% tax bracket kicks in.”
“What if they’re a migrant?”
“Oh, then it’s £125k.”
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Could anyone post more details on the global talent side? I have some staff on those visas so this could be good news for them.
Why are they offering indefinite leave to remain if they want to cut numbers. Makes no sense if you’re supposedly trying to address a short-term labour gap.
This doesn’t fix the problem they say they are trying to fix in the slightest.
So they don’t want immigrants coming over here “stealing British jobs” unless they “steal” the good jobs, in which case they’re more welcome? What?
I’ll be interested in future stats of how many applicants qualify and make use of it. The pendulum realistically does have to swing to correct previous leniency though, so I’m not against the incentive of the shortest settlement process being set at the £125k mark.
… and its only for the main applicant and their dependent follow their own route.
This is good policy. Probably the only Labour politician with credibility at this stage !
Not a labour fan or voter, but I’ll buy that for a dollar.
Relatively small numbers of high earners were never the problem in the first place. If you are earning that sort of money then odds are good you are doing something useful for someone.
Not enough on its own of course, but as part of a wider package I’m all about this.
That being said, let’s see them get it past their backbenchers.
This screams a Tory policy. Make it easier for high earners to gain settlement. Asylum seeker = 20 years, regular skilled worker = 10 years, high earner = 3 years…
Vote labor get Tories. Sounds like the rich get to wait 2 years less and anyone who works for their money has to wait 5 years longer.
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Good to know the class machine is all well and good.
Have Vs the have nots.
They should prioritise skill. People that can improve productivity or counter the brain drain. The sort who will set up business.
Not the sort who inevitable will use their existing wealth to make themselves more wealthy by most certainly buying property and renting it out to the have nots.
Wow, shocked the Labour government defined high earners as over £125k, was half expecting them to say £35k+, lol
So I have to come, contribute by tax and not get any benefits for it, unless I’m British citizenship? How about making work for British and other people so they can also work and contribute lol. Also isn’t a pension a benefit? So with IDF you won’t be even getting a pension?
What’s the point of IDF, unless you plan to pay also for citizenship to have any future in this country?
It never stops. Every week there’s a new group of people that this rancid excuse for a Labour government targets for hate.
First it was the elderly. Greedy cashed up bedblockers sitting in their mansions and spending winter fuel allowance on champagne. Then the disabled, driving around in their motability Bentleys and endlessly skiving. Now, it’s those evil Filipinos and Indians taking NHS jobs away from hardworking families and expecting the same rights as true Brits.
I guess there’s no other way. If we didn’t target the vulnerable we’d have to ask the super-rich to pay their way. And that would be awful.
Cool, fair enough, can’t argue with that. How will this affect those on settled status?
It’s a nice proposal to be honest, kudos to her for being pretty thorough.
It does impact me personally though (even though I earn 100k and would stay on 5 year route). Under the proposal spouse’s eligibility will be checked separately.
I don’t want to end up in a situation where my family gets ILR at different point in time. Looks like I’ll just ask my company to relocate me to Canada then.
Good proposal though, for the country I think.
The more tax you pay, the more they want you. This implicitly gives a golden visa price; let’s offer it
Excellent stuff. Always silly that we made people who actually contribute wait the same amount of time as those who don’t. We should do everything we can to attract real skilled high paid people and roles to the UK.
I have read so much sensible stuff over the past few days, I might even start believing it
Finally something sensible that is in the interests of the society, so that there is some link between what those that arrive give and receive. All for it, and hopefully there are more of the high earners immigrating!
Great news, we should all be in favour of high skill, high contribution migration.
So the people who actually keep public services going will get a harder life, while the people who work in leeching industries will get an easier ride. Nice.