Key measures that the Government is taking to cut net migration are: Stopping overseas care workers from bringing family dependants and requiring social care firms in England to be undertaking Care Quality Commission registered activities to sponsor visas. Last year 120,000 dependants came via this route.   Increasing the earning threshold for overseas workers by nearly 50% from its current position of £26,200 to £38,700 from April 2024, encouraging businesses to look to British talent first and invest in their workforce, helping us to deter employers from over-relying on migration, while bringing salaries in line with the average full-time salary for these types of jobs.  We will reform the Shortage Occupation List into an Immigration Salary List. We will end the 20% going rate salary discount for shortage occupations and we will ask the Migration Advisory Committee – an expert independent panel that advises the Government on immigration policy - to review the composition of the list in line with the increased salary thresholds.    We will raise the minimum income for family visas to £38,700 in line with the minimum salary threshold for the Skilled Worker route to ensure people only bring dependants to the UK they can support financially and will apply to all British and settled sponsors under the five-year partner route. We will raise the minimum income for family visas incrementally in stages, to give predictability to families, from Spring 2024 but will rise to £38,700 by Spring 2025.  We will be asking the MAC in January 2024 to review the graduate route to prevent abuse, protect the integrity and quality of UK higher education and ensure it works in the best interests of the UK. READ FULL ARTICLE BELOW: Source: https://homeofficemedia.blog.gov.uk/2023/12/08/reducing-net-migration-factsheet-december-2023/