News India Live, Digital Desk: Working rules changed in england: When you go to work in every country, then there are some rules. However, now the rules of functioning in England have changed, the UK government on Monday has made several changes to ban legal immigration, which is also going to have a great impact on Indian citizens. Now after spending 5 years in Britain, you cannot gain citizenship there, but to get citizenship, now you have to spend 10 years in the country.
Announcing its immigration white paper, Britain’s Prime Minister Kir Stmper said that Britain is taking the risk of becoming an island of strangers and “The explosion of immigration,“ The damage done to our country cannot be calculated. However, changes have been made now. The change in the immigration can clearly guess that these changes have to be exploited in the country. Steps have been taken.
Changes made in immigration
Immigration White Paper was introduced on May 12, 2025. This clearly shows that the government is planning to make the entry difficult in the country difficult for foreigners. Every part of the system is being tightened. From gaining citizenship to graduation, working in the country has been made difficult and has been changed in the period.
It has been told in the paper that in recent years, low-skilled migration of non-Emergency Union citizens in the country has increased and the number of international students studying in a low-ranked university has also increased. It says that the country wants to train British employees and reduce foreign recruitment in the country.
What changes happened
- Britain’s citizenship will no longer be so easily, now not 5 years but 10 years in the country to get citizenship.
- Skilled worker will get only those who will have a degree.
- Graduation visa has also been made a big change. Under the graduation visa, students could spend 2 years in the country for work after graduation, but now this time has been reduced to 18 months.
- There has also been a big change in health and care activists visas. This visa has been abolished.
Many things were strict
In Britain, only people with degrees will be eligible for skilled worker visas. On the other hand, graduation visas, which allow students to work after graduation in the country, will be reduced from 2 years to 18 months. Also, health and care activist visas, which allow foreign nationals to work in the care sector, will be abolished.
Foreign nationals will not be eligible for settlement or citizenship until they have lived in Britain for 10 years and all visa routes will have strict new English needs. While sharing a post on the X, the UK Prime Minister Kir Stmper wrote, if you want to live in the UK, then you should speak English. This is a common sense.
The immigration skills fee levied on employers who sponsors skilled garsars will be increased by 32%. With this, a decline in appointment of skilled garsers can be recorded. Also, the salary limit will be increased for all skilled labor visas.
Health and care activist visa ends
According to the UK Home Office data, about 1,40,000 health and care visas were released in the year 2023 to meet the shortage of employees in the UK care sector. Of these, 39,000 were given to Indian citizens.
The government said in a press release on May 12, 2025, “Care personnel from abroad have made a huge contribution to social care in Britain, but many of these people have suffered from misbehavior and exploitation.” Due to this, this visa has also been abolished to curb the number of care personnel growing in the country.
Which people threatened?
Last year, Indians were given the highest number of skilled and health and care workers visas, and the second highest number of study visas were given. After India, the top five non-European Union nationalities in the UK are Nigeria, China, Pakistan, Zimbabwe and others.
Who will not be affected?
However, even after the arrival of these changes, people who are already working on skilled visas will not be affected until they switch their root. UK will allow visa expansion and in-create switching for people already present in the country on health and care activists visa by just 2028. White Paper has accused of closing the route on exploitation and abuse of workers of care companies recruiting from abroad.
He said, we have seen the misuse and exploitation of student visas, where visa is used only as an entry gate to stay and work in the UK without the intention of completing studies and at the end of their syllabus, the number of refuge claims from the students is increasing. Apart from this, many graduate people have been allowed to stay in the UK after completion of their studies, they are not going in graduation level role for which graduation visa route was made.
The paper states that the UK wants to attract more people on its high talent routes such as global talent visa and high potential individual route.
How many Indian students in the UK?
According to the report of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, there are 369000 NRIs in the UK. At the same time, 1495318 people of Indian origin live. A total of 1864318 Indians live in the UK. At the same time, Talking about the number of students, the Ministry of Education had told the Rajya Sabha in December 2024 that 136,921 students go to the UK to study.
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