Migration Advisory Committee asks for evidence on minimum salary for Tier 2 visa

18 Jun 2015 03:19 PM

Industry responses to the consultation will inform Home Office's Tier 2 visa reform proposals.

Yesterday, the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) launched a Call for evidence review: minimum salary thresholds for Tier 2. The review asks for evidence relating to the following proposals:

• increasing the Tier 2 (General) minimum salary threshold of £20,800 and the Tier 2 (ICT) minimum salary thresholds of £24,800 for the short-term category and £41,500 for the long-term category to a level that better aligns with the salaries paid to highly-specialised experts or individuals filling skills shortages skilled to NQF level 6 or higher
• increasing the Tier 2 minimum salaries per occupation for experienced workers from the 25th percentile to the 50th or 75th percentiles, or other appropriate measure
• increasing the Tier 2 minimum salaries per occupation for new entrant workers from the 10th percentile to the 25th or 50th percentiles, or other appropriate measure

This consultation is part of the MAC task to consider new measures to help reduce non-EEA economic immigration. The consultation will close on Friday 3 July 2015. A second call for evidence, relating to the wider review of Tier 2, is expected to launch in late June/early July 2015.

The MAC review of the Tier 2 visa route is split into two parts:

• early advice on Tier 2 salary thresholds by 21 July 2015
• a wider review of the Tier 2 routes by mid-December 2015

If your business has an interest in techUK responding to this call for evidence, please submit your input to Laura Weidinger by Friday 26 June 2015. techUK has engaged with the Migration Advisory Committee previously on the review of the Shortage Occupation Lists.

If you would like to find out more about techUK's work on Skills, Talent and Migration please contact Laura Weidinger.