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ARTICLE · 01 DECEMBER 2010

Closure of Tier 1 General Route

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Following the MAC report on 18 November, the UK government has announced that the Tier 1 (General) route is to be abolished with effect from 31 March 2011.

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Caron Pope
Caron Pope
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Deirdre Murphy
Deirdre Murphy

Following the MAC report on 18 November, the UK government has announced that the Tier 1 (General) route is to be abolished with effect from 31 March 2011.

What does this mean?

While we do not anticipate that this will affect applications for Tier 1 (General) dependants or applications to extend existing Tier 1 (General) visas, possible refinements under consideration for extensions are a higher earnings threshold and / or evidence that the migrant is working in a graduate level role. One of the Government's main concerns has been that some Tier 1 (General) migrants have been holding several low-skilled jobs to accrue the salary points required for an extension.

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