Visas: Nurses

(asked on 22nd March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans that the salary exemption for nurses under Tier 2 visas announced on 7 March 2019 will (a) be maintained after the UK leaves the EU and (b) extended to EEA citizens.


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Stephen Hammond Portrait
Stephen Hammond
This question was answered on 28th March 2019

The Immigration White Paper ‘The UK’s future skills-based immigration system’, published in December 2018, where it is workers’ skills that matter, not where they come from. Following the publication of the White Paper the Home Office is now engaging with businesses and other employers to discuss the measures proposed, including at what level any minimum salary threshold should be set.

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