This is the latest straw piled on top of me.
The package includes possible moves to prevent the families of skilled migrants working in Britain and restricting skilled migrants to taking jobs only in occupations with shortages.
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Smith signalled that raising the qualification levels for tier 1 – the most highly skilled migrant route – could cut the numbers from 26,000 to only 14,000 a year. The new criteria will require a master's rather than a bachelor's degree and a job offer with a minimum salary of £20,000 rather than £17,000.Craig and I will be effected by these changes. Wholly and completely. They will make it near on impossible for us to get the visas we've been dreaming about.
I have a bachlor's degree, not a master's, and Craig would be applying as the family of a migrant. We would be ineligible.
We are ineligible. I cannot think of this as something which might not happen. I can't deal with the hope.
Perhaps we can apply now, before the changes get rolled through, and just wait ...
Either way we have to reassess what we are going to do with the next five years of our lives, where we will live, what we will fill our days with, how I will cope being in New Zealand when everyday already feels like torture, like a waste.
And personally, while I can stand objectively and say that I understand the changes that are being brought forward in light of the economic climate, I think the reason they are tightening the points-based system has a lot to do with the European Union
The points-based immigration system does not cover the movement of workers from within the European Union to Britain but official immigration figures to be published on Tuesday are expected to confirm that the number of Poles and other eastern Europeans coming to work continues to fall, especially since the decline of the pound against the Euro.They can't touch the European migrants and so have piled it all upon the rest of us.
Britain seems to forget that Australia and New Zealand are part of their commonwealth.
