London: The UK government’s changes to its visa policy for non-EU nationals aimed at curbing its soaring immigration figures will come into force from Thursday, which will affect a large number of Indians especially the IT professionals.
Under the new visa rules announced by the UK Home Office earlier this month, applications made on or after November 24 under the Tier-2 intra-company transfer category would be required to meet a higher salary threshold requirement of £30,000 from the earlier £20,800.
The ICT route is largely used by Indian IT companies in Britain and the UK’s Migration Advisory Committee had found earlier this year that Indian IT workers accounted for nearly 90 per cent of visas issued under this route.
“The first of the two phases of changes to Tier 2, announced by the government in March following a review by the Independent Migration Advisory Committee will affect applications made on or after November 24 unless stated otherwise,” a United Kingdom Home Office statement said.
