2024 has already been a year of rapid change for the UK's
most-used immigration routes. The rest of the year looks set to be
no less eventful and in particular, important changes to
both the Skilled Worker and partner routes will be coming into
force in early April.
Common themes of the new measures are increased financial
requirements and restrictions on the rights of dependants to join
their family. They either already affect or soon will affect
students, the global business mobility and scale up routes,
seasonal workers, creative workers, care workers, skilled workers,
their employers and their families.
In this context, the difference between an application being
considered under the old or new rules can amount to thousands of
pounds of additional income to evidence and can determine whether
dependant relatives are able to accompany their family members to
the UK.
