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Deposit collectors, mortgage administrators and personnel officers can continue to work on skilled workers in the UK to recruit overseas for a variety of office jobs with a lower qualification.
The new rules that were set in parliament on Tuesday are a significant tightening of the British regime for work -related migration, whereby the work visa in principle is restricted to workplaces at graduate level and salary thresholds for every professions built in accordance with the latest British wage growth.
Yvette Cooper, the Interior Minister, said that a “more complete reset” of the system would “restore the right control and order” with a fundamental shift in the approach to concentrate on “higher skills, lower number and stricter controls”.
However, the rules will be at least more liberal than this wording, since the roles are contained in a “temporary deficiency list” of non-graduated professions that will continue to be qualified for Visa by the end of 2026, even without the right to bring a family.
Some of these roles – such as laboratory and engineering technicians and welder – are covered by visa rules due to chronic skills in the past, which have often been relaxed in the past.
Others have been added because the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economics and Trades state that they are important for delivery The industrial strategythat focuses on eight sectors that have been classified as critical for growth in the coming decade.
The list contains some roles that require specific technical skills – from administrators of clinical studies to steel stages, industrial climbers and architectural technicians.
Employer in the creative industry – identified as important in the Industrial strategy -will be able to set non-cop writers, dancers and photographers, makeup artists, set designers and cash assistants.
The list also contains several broad categories of workers’ work, in which the reason for international attitudes is less clear: IT-Help-Desk technician, employees of company support, accountant and mortgage administrator, insurance insurer, accounting technician, marketing employees, sales employees and HR officers are included.
The home office said that 111 roles that were previously justified for Visa would no longer qualify. Roles on the temporary deficiency list would not qualify for salary or visa fee rabates, and the list would be replaced at the end of 2026 after a review of the government’s migration consulting committee.
After this date, each sector also needs a plan to train employees in the UK to get access to Visa. However, the ministers have not yet determined how this system will work.
Brian Bell, head of the Mac, said the ministers wanted to make changes quickly to avoid a “final sale”, in which employers were hired before new restrictions.
Employers in the hospitality industry, who often used the Visa system to hire cooks, would be most affected by the new curbs, he added.
The MAC would investigate how important every profession was for the sectors selected in the industrial strategy and whether it was realistic for employers in Great Britain, said Bell – and would then start rolling on a new deficiency list if there was a workforce plan.
