Recruiting foreign nationals

New and updated

• General election: What should HR know about immigration proposals?

  Date:

  5 December 2019

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  With just one week until the general election, Kerry Garcia and Jackie Penlington of Stevens & Bolton LLP examine what the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats are proposing for immigration.

• How to employ foreign students

  Type:

  How to

  Enhanced to include information about the expected implications of Brexit on the employment of foreign students from EEA countries.

• Employing foreign nationals

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to reflect the postponement of the date of the UK's exit from the EU.

• Podcast: The right to work in the UK

  Date:

  17 September 2019

  Type:

  Audio and video

  We discuss employers' obligations when it comes to ensuring all employees have the right to work in the UK.

• Call for evidence on the UK's future immigration system and potential salary thresholds

  Type:

  Consultations

  The Government invites views and evidence to inform the Migration Advisory Committee's review of the UK's future immigration system and potential salary thresholds.

• International graduates offered two-year work visa

  Date:

  11 September 2019

  Type:

  News

  International graduates will be able to stay in the UK for two years to find work under a new immigration route that reverses the "hostile environment" that Theresa May introduced as home secretary in 2012.

• Drop in EU migrants prompts urgent call for immigration transition period

  Date:

  22 August 2019

  Type:

  News

  The number of EU citizens moving to the UK to work has continued to fall, prompting business bodies to reiterate their calls for a transition period ahead of any new immigration system so employers can access the labour they need.

• Post-Brexit regional salary thresholds for migrants to be considered

  Date:

  26 June 2019

  Type:

  News

  The Migration Advisory Committee is to consider how salary thresholds should be calculated under a future immigration system - including whether there is a case for regional salary thresholds to be set.

• New flexibility in immigration rules allays skills gap fears

  Date:

  3 April 2019

  Type:

  News

  Given the current Brexit crisis there are few certainties about future immigration rules, but for Claire Nilson and Hodon Buraleh there are encouraging signs in Philip Hammond's Spring Statement for those concerned about the growing skills gap.

• Employing people from abroad policy

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to reflect the postponement of the date of the UK's exit from the EU.