Skills matter?

The Times reports that many high skilled immigrants have failed to renew their visas due to the government changing the rules allowing such migrants to work in the UK. Since the introduction of the programme more than 20,000 people - mainly entrepreneurs, scientists and IT specialists - have moved to the UK and now the new rules are applied to them retrospectively. 

The changes announced in November place greater emphasis on high earnings and education instead of work experience. Many of the immigrants fail to meet these and will likely to be forced to move back to their countries. The government's response to the calls for tightening immigration rules have hit the wrong people. It is not right to lure people in under one set of rules and then change its policy and to apply it to all.