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Important Changes To Skilled Worker Visa In March 2024 And April 2024

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Skilled Worker and Health and Care visa upcoming changes March 2024 and April 2024. Today, 19th February 2024 the Statement of Changes to Immigration Rules...

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IMPORTANT CHANGES TO SKILLED WORKER VISA IN MARCH 2024 AND APRIL 2024

Skilled Worker and Health and Care visa upcoming changes March 2024 and April 2024. Today, 19^th February 2024 the Statement of Changes to Immigration Rules was published which introduces changes to Skilled Worker visa and Health and Care visa. These changes are implementing the measures to curb net migration that were already announced on 4 December 2023 in the plan to cut net migration. We summarised the plan in our blog article on 4^th December 2023.In our previous blog on 27^th December 2023 we provided information on the implementation timeline available at the time and this new blog we provide specific dates confirmed by the UK government in press release by the Home Secretary.

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