Bernadette McAliskey: ‘The North’s economy cannot survive without immigrant labour’

From January, applicants who wish to come to the UK must be skilled workers who meet sufficient criteria to gain 70 points on the new system.To do so, they must speak English and have a job offer from an “approved employer” at an “appropriate skill level”. They must also meet a salary threshold of £25,600 , hold a PhD in a particular area, or have an offer of a job in areas where there are shortages.

Anyone who does not apply, she said, would “automatically become a non-documented migrant and subject to these new immigration regulations”. Since last May, she said, Step has supported almost 20,000 EU citizens to complete their applications for settled status, with a focus on “the most vulnerable who are not able to register easily.

Brexit, she said, “was always about reducing the number of immigrants” and this was the “expected outworking of it”.

Since Westminster subsidizes the NI economy I would say it’s also their call who will work there. Unless Ireland would like to chip in? No? Then be quiet.

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