For the first time in decades, fully democratic control of borders. Secure and efficiently run borders are central to our safety, prosperity, and sense of nationhood.
I am pleased to introduce this document setting out the vision for our border and legal migration system future. Since this country finished space of movement, we have implemented a global points-based system moved from power to strength, with visa application numbers above those of pre-pandemic levels.
Over the next few years, bringing in more progress to ensure we continue to have a world-leading border and legal migration system. These ranges of visible change improved customer service before you apply to invisible change better targeting and watchlisting at the borders.
Our border slickers and is more efficient, with a greater number of customers using eGates. A powerful drive for contactless journeys for British citizens and our most trusted overseas partners.
Our flagship’s permission-to-travel scheme means easier for our friend to come to and contributes to the UK but harder for those who do not want to come. Electronic Travel Authorisations enable us to tackle problems upstream and know more about those who use the system to come here.
These schemes alongside those tackling illegal migration, such as our Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda represent additional assurance that this government takes our borders seriously.
The changes made to the system benefit all our customers, from British subjects in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, to industry partners and businesses, to our hugely successful science, research, and creative sectors, and legitimate travelers from abroad.
I am optimistic that the developments outlined in this document lead to a stronger secure, and prosperous union.
The United States and the United Kingdom hope their technological sophistication and competitiveness in advanced sectors secure their position in the 21st century. Their countries have set aside billions they can ill afford for industrial policy told to give these sectors an edge, the US even risking conflict with harsh export controls aimed at preventing China from catching up.
Almost as soon as he took office, President Biden began work of undoing a lot of the damage the Trump administration did to the US H-1B visa program. He permitted a Trump-era ban on access by H-1B holders to expire and withdrew a Trump proposal to prohibit H-1B visa holder spouses from working in the US recently the administration has expanded the number of degrees considered eligible for special STEM OPT visas.
But the US immigration system still turns away hundreds of thousands of highly skilled — and in many cases US educated tech staffers year. Now the UK trying to capitalize on the United States’ failure to reform its policy regarding high-skilled immigrants with a new visa that could poach American-trained tech talent across the pond. And there is good reason to believe it could work.
For the visa, the primary criterion is that the applicant graduated within the last five years from one of the world’s top-ranked 50 universities outside of the UK Twenty of the 50 schools on the Home Office’s list in the US, including tech feeder schools like Harvard, Stanford, CalTech, and MIT. Unlike H-1B visa applicants, they do not require a job offer to involve and can work in the UK for two years if they have a bachelor’s or master’s grade or for three years if they have a doctorate.
Want the business of tomorrow built today why call on students to take advantage of this incredible opportunity to forge their careers here, said Rishi Sunak, the UK finance minister, in a statement launching the program in May.
Just weeks into its takeoff, the HPI visa has proven widespread, with many individuals representing interest, according to Simon Kenny, an immigration attorney at Muldoon Britton, a UK law firm that specializes in enterprise visas from the US to the UK. It is quick, it straightforward one can get a decision within three weeks, Kenny told Protocol. Queries the first time about the High Potential Individual visa because people have had enough waiting within the US immigration system.
