United Kingdom: Non-EU migrants earning less than £35,000 to
be deported
From next month, non-EU migrants in the UK earning less than
£35,000 will be deported. The new Home Office policy, which comes into force on
April 6, applies to all overseas workers who have been in the UK for five years
on a Tier 2 visa. If they can’t prove
that they’re earning more than £35,000, they will be denied settlement and will
face deportation. Teachers, IT professionals and journalists could all be badly
affected. A petition launched at the beginning of the year called for the
threshold to be reconsidered – it gathered more than 100,000 signatures and was
debated in parliament last week. So what’s actually changing?
