On 24th October, Prime Minister announced that he had scrapped the target to lower net migration to tens of thousands while reducing the salary cap for skilled migrants from £35,800 to £25,600.
Under the new proposal, the cap needed for skilled migrants to stay in the UK without any time restrictions will be reduced. These plans have been confirmed by the Home Office and will be introduced from December 1.
This follows figures revealing in August that net migration to the UK soared to its highest level since the Brexit referendum in 2016 in the build up to the coronavirus outbreak. According to the ONS report over the past year, around 715,000 people moved to the UK and around 403,000 people left the UK.
