UK IMMIGRATION FROM INDIA

In U K there are people who have the right to live, work and move in and out of the country, and there are those who need permission to enter and remain there. The following need permission to enter UK:

- Visitor’s
- Foreign partner/spouse
- Foreign students
- Foreign nannies/ pairs

All these cases are considered to have a limited leave to stay in the UK, with a varied each group. In all cases of temporary stay an “Entry Clearance” is required. This would also vary according to each group of applicant. A refugee or an asylum seeker would not need an entry clearance.

Understanding the rules about immigration is very important for people who need permission to be in the UK, if not you could be deported and not allowed to return. By mid=2007 UK will start using the point based scheme b y which it will be simpler for highly qualified immigrants to obtain visas , while the less skilled immigrants will find it more difficult. Specific points will be awarded to all potential immigrants based on the applicant’s age, financial situation, educational qualifications, English language ability and other factors. When making their application all applicants other than the most highly skilled will need to provide a certificate of sponsorship from an approved sponsor, such as an employer or a school.

In the new system, for example a person with a Bachelor’s degree and high previous earning, or someone with a UK PhD and low previous earning would equally earn enough points to apply. The UK has introduced a number of new UK immigration, naturalization, UK visa, work permit and UK working visa categories in the last few years. The points based skilled immigration category the Highly Skilled Migrant Program has proved to be very succesfull.For the sectors based visa there is a new low skilled UK work permit category. The sector based scheme for the food processing and hospitality sector allows young people to enter UK for up to twelve months to do low skilled work. There are likely to be further UK immigration changes soon that will allow even more people to gain entry to the UK.