Further UK Immigration White Paper Changes Announced

On 14 October 2025, the Home Office released its latest set of changes originally set out in the White Paper earlier this year. These include an increase to the skills threshold, the reduction of the duration of a graduate visa and a 32% increase of the Immigration Skills Charge.

On 14 October 2025, the Home Office issued a Statement of Changes along with a press release setting out new immigration reforms that will be coming into effect over the next 18 months. The changes were originally announced in the Immigration White Paper (Restoring Control over the Immigration System), which set out a number of large-scale Skilled Worker reforms, some of which came into force in July 2025.