A new package of measures to cut record net migration will see the number of people moving to the UK fall by 300,000, James Cleverly told MPs on Monday.
The Home Secretary announced a five-point plan that included a ban on foreign care workers bringing dependants, a big increase in the salary required for skilled foreign workers to get a visa to £38,700, and the scrapping of companies being allowed to hire cut-price labour from overseas for roles where there is a shortage of workers.
He said the measures, combined with a previously announced ban on masters students bringing in relatives, would mean that “more than 300,000 people who came to the UK last year would now not be able to do so”.
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