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Changes to the Immigration Rules

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The government is demonstrating its commitment to providing protection and support to the most vulnerable people while at the same time encouraging highly talented students and workers to the UK has been demonstrated in Immigration Rule changes laid today.

The purposes of the main changes are to:

- Make provision for returning residents, including those affected by Windrush.
- Create a route for Afghan locally engaged staff to apply for settlement in the UK and to extend the ex-gratia redundancy scheme by six years, to include those made redundant on or after 1 May 2006.
- Create a new settlement route for Turkish ECAA business persons, workers and their family members.
- Create a new form of leave for people, transferred to the UK under the Dubs amendment, who do not qualify for international protection.
- Exempt all doctors and all nurses from the annual Tier 2 (General) limit.
- Create new provisions in the Tier 1 (Exceptional Talent) category.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/changes-to-the-immigration-rules—2
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/statement-of-changes-to-the-immigration-rules-hc1154-15-june-2018