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Since last summer's public consultation we have been waiting for the government to announce its final decision on changes to toughen up family migration policy – during which MRN has been producing regular analysis of the proposals.
Last week’s statement from Damian Green was, for once, met with cautious relief from UK employers - after all, they can be confident that they had a clear hand in influencing policy on this occasion. Green announced that the annual cap on non-EU migrant workers coming to the UK will remain fixed at its current level until 2014 – offering up a rare dose of predictability within the immigration system for business and public sector employers.
MRN was joined for our third annual MRN national network meeting at the Amnesty International building in Old Street, London, by fifty key organisations in our UK network working in support of migrants, from frontline organisations, charities, trade unions and thinktanks. We were inspired by the effort that many people made to come – with representatives from as far afield as Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds, Edinburgh and Belfast as well as London.
Not every battle can be won – but as they go, this was a close one.
If there is one thing that the UK government seems able to deliver on at the moment when it comes to migration policy, it’s keeping migrant workers on their toes by making the rules progressively more difficult for them. This week has brought a fresh blizzard of news and analysis affecting economic migration to the UK – and as anticipated the fallout will land most heavily on lower-earning migrant workers and migrant domestic workers.
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