Sunak’s Conservative gov banned those coming to study in the UK and those on health and care visas from bringing family members and Labour has no plans to change the policy. The University of Oxford’s Migration Observatory has estimated that net migration will continue to drop considerably in the next five years to about 350,000 by 2030, driven in part by more people leaving Britain, declines in the number of overseas students arriving in the UK, and a fall in private sector vacancies.
The thinktank has warned that the fall in numbers could lead to significant “trade-offs” as universities struggle to cope with declining revenues and the health and social care sector faces potential recruitment problems.
The overall number of people applying to come to the UK as skilled workers, healthcare workers or to study has fallen from 143,000 in July last year to 91,300 in July this year – a drop of 36%A Home Office spokesperson told the Times: “We have set out a clear plan to bring down historically high levels of legal migration by tackling the root causes behind high international recruitment.

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