Cap on skilled workers in UK
"The British government, for the first time, has drawn a marker for net migration, which includes a cap on immigration from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) — a policy that will affect Indians the most, for they constitute the largest influx among highly skilled and skilled workers.
The Conservative party-Liberal Democrat alliance's tough talking home minister, Theresa May,
imposed a 22.05% cut on "highly skilled" migrants on Tuesday. In other
words, not more than 21,000 people will be allowed into the UK from
outside the EEA on work permits April 1, 2011, onward.
Visas
for skilled workers without job offer will be down to an even more
drastic 1,000 in 2011-12. Last year, 50,000 visas were issued for tier
one (highly skilled) and tier two (skilled) workers from outside EEA. Of
those, 22,000 came on intra-company transfers. May critcised the
previous Labour government's policy of raising net migration to 196,000
in 2009 and said, "We cannot go on like this."