The headline changes include increasing the minimum salaries that skilled foreign national workers and family visa sponsors must earn, and significantly lowering the number of dependants permitted to come to the UK.
The Home Office states the new rules will result in around 300,000 fewer people coming to the UK per year compared to 2022.
The changes, which are expected to take effect in Spring 2024, are as follows:
- Health & care worker visa restrictions
- Increase in minimum salary threshold for sponsored workers
- Increase in minimum salary threshold for sponsors of family visas
- Immigration Salary List to replace Shortage Occupation List
- Graduate route reform
