In 2020, following the UK’s exit from the EU, the Government introduced the skilled worker visa route, now the main route for people to apply to work in the UK. The Government aims to use the system to attract the skills the country needs and to support economic growth. The route was opened to care …
| Title | HC No. | Published | Items | Response |
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| 37th Report - Immigration: Skilled worker visas | HC 819 | 4 Jul 2025 | 40 | Responded |
Since 2021, the government has made a series of changes to entry requirements for Skilled Worker visas. In 2022, it expanded the route to respond to the needs of the care sector.7 In Spring 2024, the government tightened entry requirements for Skilled Worker visas to help reduce net migration.8 The …
While changes to immigration rules are subject to collective government agreement, the Home Office is responsible for designing and implementing immigration policy.10 We asked the Home Office what work it had done to assess the impacts of changes to the route ahead of their implementation.11 It told us that it …
We were concerned, however, that the Home Office did not fully understand commissioning arrangements in the care sector, which means it can be difficult for care providers to prove that they have guaranteed vacancies. In written evidence, the Homecare Association said that the disconnect between commissioning practices and visa requirements …
The Home Office has met its service standards for processing sponsor licences within eight weeks, with the average processing time falling from 44 days in 2023 to 34 days in 2024.104 However, the Home Office does not have reliable data on the distribution of processing times, which means it does …
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| 8 May 2025 | Dame Antonia Romeo DCB · Ministry of Justice, Dan Hobbs · Home Office, Marc Owen CBE · Home Office, Simon Ridley · Home Office | View ↗ |
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| 1 Dec 2025 | To cttee | Letter from the Second Permanent Secretary at the Home Office and the Permanent… |
| 24 Nov 2025 | To cttee | Letter from the Chair to the Permanent Secretary at the Home Office relating to… |