Recruiting foreign nationals

New and updated

• Employing foreign nationals

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to reflect the lifting of restrictions on Croatian nationals' right to work in the UK, from 1 July 2018.

• How to employ foreign students

  Type:

  How to

  Updated to reflect the lifting of restrictions on Croatian nationals' right to work in the UK, from 1 July 2018.

• Employing foreign nationals: health (England and Wales)

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to reflect that, from 6 July 2018, doctors and nurses are removed from the cap on tier 2 visas.

• Employing foreign nationals: health (Scotland)

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to reflect that, from 6 July 2018, doctors and nurses are removed from the cap on tier 2 visas.

• Fruit industry calls for seasonal permit to avoid post-Brexit labour shortage

  Date:

  22 June 2018

  Type:

  News

  The soft fruit industry could be "crushed" by Brexit if it loses access to the thousands of seasonal workers it relies upon from EU countries, a trade body has claimed.

• Tier 2 visas: how the NHS exemption will benefit other sectors

  Date:

  19 June 2018

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  The removal of doctors and nurses from the cap on Tier 2 visas for highly-skilled workers has been welcomed and could be part of the solution to the NHS's resourcing crisis. But what about other sectors struggling to get the staff they need? Ashleigh Wight looks at how others will benefit and what needs to be done to make the migration system fairer.

• Doctors and nurses to be excluded from Tier 2 visa cap

  Date:

  14 June 2018

  Type:

  News

  NHS doctors and nurses will be excluded from restrictions to the number of visas granted to skilled non-EU migrant workers under plans expected to be announced tomorrow (15 June).

• Tier 2 visa reforms: what would employers like to see?

  Date:

  6 June 2018

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  With a review of the Tier 2 visa system for non-EU nationals promised by home secretary Sajid David, Rachel Harvey from Shakespeare Martineau sets out what employers would like to see.

• Home secretary Javid announces review of Tier 2 immigration system

  Date:

  4 June 2018

  Type:

  News

  Home secretary Sajid Javid has said that the Home Office would conduct a review of its under-fire policy on issuing Tier 2 visas to skilled candidates from outside the EU and its use of a cap to limit numbers entering the UK.

• How to apply for a sponsor licence

  Type:

  How to

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.