Immigration To UK
New rules to benefit aspirants
Officials of the British High Commission at a seminar in Sylhet yesterday said the newly introduced point-based system to manage migration to the UK for work, study and training is consolidating and simplifying 80 or so routes to the UK into just five tiers.
The British government will implement Tier-2 of the point-based system for those willing to work in the UK and Tier-5 for the youth mobility schemes, temporary workers etc will start from November 27 and Tier-4 (for the students) from March 2009 while Tier #1 has already been introduced for the highly skilled people, officials said.
The newly introduced point-based system would greatly benefit the genuine people interested to go to the UK in a proper way as there are huge scopes for the young and qualified people to migrate there, officials said at the seminar.
Immigration laws are diverse and confusing at times while vulnerable people need help of experienced persons in facing different odds related to those, speakers said, adding that genuine foreign goers should remain alert not to get misguided by some unscrupulous people who pose as 'immigration experts or advisors'.
In Bangladesh over 50 per cent of the visa applications for UK are made from Sylhet division while settlement of people from the region is also very high.
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