{"id":3013,"date":"2020-03-12T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/points-based-immigration-system-briefing-2020"},"modified":"2020-03-12T16:35:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T16:35:00","slug":"points-based-immigration-system-briefing-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/points-based-immigration-system-briefing-2020","title":{"rendered":"Points Based Immigration System Briefing 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can download a pdf of this briefing here.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Government has announced its new approach to immigration for skilled workers to be introduced from 1 January 2021. The announcement includes altering the existing system for Tier 2 skilled workers, introducing points that applicants will need to accrue in order to be eligible to enter the UK. After the end of Freedom of Movement for EEA Citizens on 30 June 2021, this system will apply to prospective immigrants from all over the world.<br \/>\nThe announcement focusses only on one small area of immigration policy, leaving most of the system \u2013 enforcement, rights to bring dependents, settlement criteria, asylum system, and more \u2013 unchanged. The Government has promised that these questions will be addressed \u201cin due course\u201d and that the new system will be introduced with an overall view to streamlining and tightening the existing system.<br \/>\nThe Government claims that overall migration numbers will be reduced through th&#8230;<br \/><embed style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"\" type=\"\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can download a pdf of this briefing here.\u00a0 The Government has announced its new approach to immigration for skilled workers to be introduced from 1 January 2021. The announcement includes altering the existing system for Tier 2 skilled workers, introducing points that applicants will need to accrue in order to be eligible to enter&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}