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This would allow easier access to visas, but also for the employers sponsoring them to pay salaries below thresholds for migrant workers under Britain's new migration system. The government has called on employers to train more British people to fill their vacancies but the CBI said that would take up to two years.

The pandemic and uncertainty about precise immigration rules had made it hard to prepare for the end of free movement for most EU workers on Jan. Yet here we have obvious and short-term skilled need but a system that can't seem to respond," CBI director-general Tony Danker said.

The government had also failed to follow official advice on which jobs should qualify for shortage status, and rules on what kinds of training qualified for support under a government apprenticeship scheme were also too restrictive, the CBI said. Applicants via this route will still have to meet salary thresholds depending on the type of work they do. Many care workers will not be covered by the scheme though.

There will be no limit on the number of international students who can come to the UK to study. The new student visa application system allows them to apply six months before they are due to start a course if they are applying from outside the UK. The government has also launched a graduate visa to allow students who have completed a degree to stay in the UK for two years.

This will rise to three years for those who have done a PhD. They had until 30 June to apply for settled status, although the government has said that it will still accept applications from anyone with a reasonable excuse for a delay.

There are also different schemes for some workers - for example, there is a Global Talent, Innovator and Start-Up visa. The government says this is designed to attract "those who have an exceptional talent or show exceptional promise in the fields of engineering, science, tech or culture". It is also in the process of overhauling the asylum rules. Get in touch. Read more from Reality Check. Since the UK left the EU, they can no longer fall back on the Dublin treaty which under its terms would allow the UK to send an asylum claimant back to the EU country in which they first entered the bloc.

Now, the UK will have to strike agreements with each country individually in order to be able to send people back. The Home Secretary cited a recent example of the kinds of legal routes into the country they want to promote, when she referred to the agreement allowing "over five million people in Hong Kong to the UK.

Patel, "not the ability to pay people smugglers. Patel said that mostly young men were pushing ahead in the asylum system by being willing to take the kinds of risks, like get in a small boat to cross the Channel or hide in lorries and other vehicles, and this was also not a fair way of deciding who could apply.

That meant that the "more vulnerable" which she deemed were "women and children" were not getting a fair chance of applying to the UK under the current system. The refugee rights campaign group Refugee Action UK tweeted a long series of criticisms of the government's new plan.

People seeking asylum are already demonised while desperately trying to navigate a complex system. Creating a divide based on how people try to reach safety will further fuel the harassment, violent attacks and hate crimes people already experience.

In it, the organization said that the new proposals would lengthen, not shorten the time people wait to obtain asylum, which would "erode their mental health" and "further isolate them. Refugee Action said they feared the new proposals would make "lack of [welfare] support the default. Any new asylum plan should offer dignity to all, said Refugee Action, regardless of how they arrive.

But dignity should be the default. Everyone deserves safe and dignified accommodation, enough food and essentials to live, and the right to work and contribute to their community.

Our asylum system should offer these basic human rights to everyone, regardless of how they arrive. Hassan Akkad, a recognized Syrian refugee in the UK, and critic of the current government who supports the opposition Labour party, added to the voices against the new plan.