Immigration cap: how the numbers might add up
If a £40,000 salary floor is introduced for migrants who enter the UK through intra-company transfers, you can see how you have potentially brought down numbers by half.
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As the coalition caps Non-EU migrants and the “overwhelming public concern” about immigration reaches the Commons, Gaby Hinsliff writes that the perennial bogeyman of British politics is back.
If a £40,000 salary floor is introduced for migrants who enter the UK through intra-company transfers, you can see how you have potentially brought down numbers by half.
The government is to announce a proposed cap on the number of migrant workers coming to Britain from outside the EU by an estimated 13 per cent next year.
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