The Home Secretary Sajid Javid has asked the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to review and advise on salary thresholds for the future immigration system, which will start to take effect from 2021.
The MAC previously recommended that the Government should retain the existing minimum salary thresholds, which includes paying experienced workers at least £30,000, and new entrants (including recent graduates) at least £20,800.
The Home Secretary has now asked the Committee to re-consider how future salary thresholds should be calculated, the levels of salary thresholds, whether there is a case for regional salary thresholds for different parts of the UK, and whether there should be exceptions to salary thresholds, for example because they’ve newly started in the occupation or because they work in a shortage occupation.
The Heritage Alliance has included details of shortage occupations we are aware of in the heritage sector at the annex of the most recent version of our Heritage and Immigration Brexit Briefing.
The Alliance and our members are also in conversation with the Home Office on plans for the future immigration system. (Please see ‘Headlines’ section for further details).