In May 2024 British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak proposed capping the number of visas the government issues every year. The annual cap, which will progressively be lowered each year to cut migration numbers, will not affect foreign students and seasonal workers. More than 300,000 work visas were given in the year ending March 2024, which is more than double the number granted in 2019, according to official statistics. While the tightened regulations led to a huge decline in the number of health and social care visa applications in May, according to interior ministry figures, care providers have warned that the sector is struggling to fill tens of thousands of vacancies. Labour's shadow home minister Yvette Cooper dismissed the proposed policy as a "meaningless announcement".
Response rates from 20.4k UK voters.
52% Yes |
48% No |
52% Yes |
48% No |
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cap it only for sectors that are over subscribed to ensure sectors aren't left without skilled workers
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In areas where the migrants meet the salary requirement but there is no shortage of workers in their profession/with their skills.
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No, work visas need to be dealt with differently to family visas until we get the numbers British skilled workers available.
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Yes, but temporarily and with the view that this is alongside other measures taken to help refugees etc
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Not work or Student Visas but there should absolutely be a restriction on dependants as the current system is open to widescale abuse
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Yes, but ideally there should not be family and work visas granted to anyone beyond the immediate family of children or spouses.
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yes, just in terms of whether or not we have the space, nothing to do with the amount of immigrants, it’s whether we can house and support everyone so that we don’t have homeless people
@9QB7TD63mos3MO
This clearly needs to be flexible, if we need skilled workers who have proven themselves as such then we issue them visas as required.
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