The Points-based system’s restrictions of low-skilled migrants is impacting restaurants across the country.
Most of the UK’s curry houses, estimated to number almost 10,000, recruit staff for their kitchens directly from Bangladesh. The new Points-based system is restricting curry houses’ ability to recruit people with the right skills, leading to staff shortages.
The industry is in trouble, [...]

A timetable for the UK’s new Points Based System (PBS) for immigration has been announced by the Immigration minister.
The PBS will be rolled out starting from 2008. Under the points based scheme, people will be able to migrate to the United Kingdom under any one of five tiers. Currently, there are over 80 different immigration paths.
The new system [...]

With the expansion of the EU, and the extended population that now holds the right to work in the UK, workers have been arriving to the UK from Eastern Europe in growing numbers. The Working Holidaymaker visa has also been abolished, and although Tier 5 of the new Points Based System allows for youth mobility, [...]