Economic migration has been a significant driver of the surge. Of those coming from outside the EU, 41pc came on work visas in 2023. More recent Home Office data for the 12 months to June 2024 ...

"I'm forced to live thousands of miles away from my family if I want to be with my husband." Some countries, like the UK, set ...

Net migration ‘could be down to around 300,000 in next few years’ Professor Brian Bell, the chairman of the Migration Advisory Committee, said he thinks numbers will ‘come down quite rapidly’.

The changes stem from reforms already underway and new proposals laid out in the government’s May 2025 white paper, Restoring ...

The Government’s immigration White Paper, unveiled in May, introduced sweeping measures to reform the immigration system, ...

The Home Secretary has written to the Chair of the Migration Advisory Committee to commission a review of salary requirements ...

The UK government is overhauling its immigration system to reduce net migration and prioritize domestic workforce development ...

The UK will stop overseas recruitment of care workers from July 22 and raise salary and skills thresholds for foreign job ...

Earlier this month the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) set out its recommendations after a review requested by the Home Secretary to look at how to set an MIR for family visas that balances ...

Immigration rule changes have been made in a bid to cut the number of foreign nationals coming to live in the UK ...

The Migration Advisory Committee said lifting the bar to £38,700 — the current threshold for skilled worker visas — was unrelated to family migration. ...