UK - Salary Threshold Of 35000 Pounds Will Not Effect Indians

07 Apr 2016

The United Kingdom Government has claimed that Indians working in the UK will not be affected by the new salary threshold of the 35000 British Pounds for the Tier 2 visas. The 89 percent of Indians will not have the impact of the new salary threshold as the Indians are working on the Intra-company Transfers (ICT) under Tier 2 category.

The United Kingdom has also exempted few categories such as Healthcare and teaching from the salary cap of tier 2. The United Kingdom’s Immigration Minister James Brokenshire has announced that businesses can attract the highly qualified professionals and train the UK citizens taking it as the responsibility.

The foreign nationals applying for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) must have 35000 pounds salary to Settle in the United Kingdom. The salary cap was earlier 21,000, and new salary threshold of 35 000 pounds are effective from April 6.According to the National Statistic in 2014-2015 Indians are the highest beneficiaries of Tier two visas with 78 percent of the total visas granted.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also discussed the issue of the Tier 2 salary threshold with the UK Prime Minister in a meeting at the Nuclear Security in the United States.

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