UK Visa Statistics: UK Visa Applications Plummets

UK Visa Statistics: UK Visa Applications Plummets.

UK Visa Applications Plummet Fall In Skilled Migration, Overseas Assignees, Intra-Company Transfers, Foreign Student Numbers And Family Applications

Skilled Worker Visas Being Granted Plummets In the UK During Covid-19 Lockdown

The coronavirus pandemic has caused an unprecedented fall in the amount of skilled migration, overseas assignees, intra-company transfers, foreign student numbers and family applications.

The fall in numbers reverses the trend of steady increases in the levels of immigration from non-EU countries earlier in the year

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UK Visa Applications Plummet Fall In Skilled Migration, Overseas Assignees, Intra-Company Transfers, Foreign Student Numbers And Family Applications.

UK Visa Applications Fall

0:00 – UK Visa Statistics: UK Visa Applications Plummets

The latest data are the clearest indication yet of the impact of the pandemic on net migration from outside the EU.

But changes in migration and Brexit could also further skew the numbers and cause difficulties in attracting talent.

Now, experts are wondering how long it will take for the global situation to return to something approaching normal.

The UK’s Points-based System (PBS) regulates the type and number of migrants that can enter the UK based on merits of the migrant and the institution.

The PBS system is based on a number of “Tiers”.

Tier 1 represents Highly skilled migrants, whereas Tier 2 represents skilled workers.

Tier 3 was for low-skilled workers filling specific temporary labour shortages. The UK Government never allocated any visas under this scheme.

Tier 4 is for International Students and educational institutions like Universities.

The framework regulates who can study in the UK from abroad.

Whereas Tier 5 represents temporary workers.

It has been reported that the number of international workers that were granted UK visas to take up skilled work dropped sharply in the year to June.

This sharp drop represents the number of applications made during the coronavirus lockdown.

The fall has reversed the general trend of record levels of immigration from non-EU countries earlier in the year.

The Home Office released quarterly statistics on 27th August showing that in April to June, the number of people granted Tier 2 visas fell 95 per cent compared with the same quarter of 2019.

The decline was part of an overall 99 per cent quarter-on-quarter drop in the number of visas granted, from 1.16m in April to June 2019 to 13,137 in the second quarter of 2020.

The sharp fall in the second quarter was particularly driven by Skilled (Tier 2) work visas, which accounts for 60% of work-related visas and decreased by 20 per cent to 87,044 compared with the previous year and the overall number of visas granted down 22 per cent.

02:14 – Sharp Falls in UK Migration Numbers

Prior to the global pandemic, the fourth quarter of 2019, Tier 2 visa grants were 9.7 per cent up compared to the same quarter of 2018, while all successful grants of visas were 14 per cent up on the previous year.

03:14 – Will the UK see an increase in non-EU migration later this year?
03:59 – Brexit: A risk that skilled worker migration will fall even further

What are your thoughts on the UK’s migration numbers?

Do you think that the pandemic will have long-lasting effects on the attractiveness of working in the UK?

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