Topic
Points-Based Immigration System
12 published works
Ogletree Deakins Insights
The United Kingdom’s New Points-Based Immigration System
Applications for the new work visa routes for eligible overseas workers who wish to work in the United Kingdom from 1 January 2021 opened on 1 December 2020. Provided applicants…
Knowledge Centre
Frontier Worker Permit Scheme Launched
By Lucy Cundy
On 1 January 2021, the UK’s new points-based immigration system will come into effect. The new immigration system will introduce some important changes that Frontier Workers need to be aware…
The Mobile Workforce
UK Will Begin Accepting Applications in December 2020
By Elizabeth (Liz) Espín Stern, María E. Ferré
The UK Government has released a Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules, detailing new provisions related to the country’s Post-Brexit immigration system. Although the new system will go into effect…
COVID-19 Response Blog
Post-Brexit Immigration: Introducing the Points-Based Immigration System
By Elizabeth (Liz) Espín Stern, Grace Shie, Paul W. Virtue, María E. Ferré, Paul J. Sarauskas
In February 2020, the Home Office of the UK government released a policy statement noting the details of a new era of immigration to launch in the wake of Brexit. The…
Global Workplace Insider
UK points-based immigration system: Further details announced
On 13 July 2020, the Home Office published further details on how the UK’s points-based immigration system will work from 1 January 2021. As set out in the Policy Statement…
UK Immigration Blog
Radio Interview with #JazzFM-Mr. Yash Dubal, Director at A Y & J Solicitors discussing Points Based Immigration System
On 12th June, 2020, #Jazz FM invited Mr Yash Dubal, Director at A Y & J Solicitors to discuss the Points Based Immigration System. Here’s how the discussion goes down:…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
UK Government Releases Policy Statement on Points-Based Immigration System
The United Kingdom (UK) formally left the European Union (EU) on January 31, 2020, and entered a transition period that will officially end on December 31, 2020. The UK and…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Rethinking Points Systems and Employer-Selected Immigration
Advanced industrialized economies are now widely using one of two competing models for selecting economic-stream immigrants: Points-based and employer-led selection.Points-based systems, which admit immigrants who score high enough on a…
ImmigrationProf Blog
New Immigration Rules Across the Pond
I remain very skeptical about points-based immigration systems in part because of their assumptions that working class and low wage workers do not contribute to economies. They also seem to…
ImmigrationProf Blog
The Point System’s Problems–Even for Foreign Nurses
Stuart Anderson of the National Foundation for American Policy points out that foreign nurses, vital to addressing American's nursing shortage in the midst of an aging U.S. population, would be…