In a rather remarkable development, a top British lifestyle management firm has reportedly said that it could have no options except to shift certain divisions of its operations out-of-the-country with the reason being it has become highly tough to usher-in qualified manpower with the Tier 2 (General) Skilled Worker Permits.
In this connection, a concerned person allegedly said that in case one cannot hire managers for a team here, he has to move the whole unit to a foreign location. He added that though he personally prefers that his company remains a British-based enterprise, the same may not be possible as it is an international organization. Echoing similar feelings, another British entrepreneur allegedly said that he faced a great deal of difficulties in getting a permit for a critical computer engineer from abroad.
British immigration didn’t abide by its own laws
He further said that the software developer’s submission would have been rejected in case the deputy director of the concerned immigration body had not been present in Liverpool on the day when an emergency meeting related to the petition was organized. The said deputy director allegedly gave permission to his staff to break the Home Office’s own regulations and permitted the submission to be successful.
Though an upper limit of 20,700 per year on the Tier 2 (General) Visas exists, the same has not still ever been touched. Employees who already do a job for global organizations may arrive on the UK soils on the Tier 2 (Intra Company Transfer) Permits. There is no upper limit on the same.
In 2010, the freshly elected Coalition administration of the country pledged itself to cutting-down overall inbound immigration. Hence, it has overhauled the nation’s immigration structure. It has closed-down the Tier 1 (Post Graduate Work) Permit which enabled worldwide graduates of the many British universities to get employed in the nation for two years, besides the Tier 1 (General) Permit, which enabled global graduates to arrive and reside, apart from do a job in the country.
Upper limit of 20,700 on Tier 2 (General) Permit submissions
The government has also brought-in an upper limit of 20,700 on the figure of the Tier 2 (General) Permits for trained manpower which may be made available and introduced a chain of modifications to the Tier 2 system in April 2013 necessitating better and superior promotion of jobs to British workers, prior to they may be provided to out-of-the-country manpower.
The administration has also made it much more tricky to obtain a Tier 4 student permit even while as many as 500 colleges–believed to be putting up for sale ‘immigration not education’–have been robbed of their official permissions to offer sponsorship to students for the Tier 4 Permits.
