Factual info
Other important Gov Documents below
Media, Resources and Links
'Statement of Intent: Changes to Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 5 of the Points Based System; Overseas Domestic Workers; And Visitors’ – Home Office, Feb 2012 (in which the Home Office announces the £35,000 threshold)
'Analysis of the Points Based System: Settlement Rights of Migrants in Tier 1 and Tier 2’ – Migration Advisory Committee, Nov 2011 (in which they first recommend the pay threshold, quote many businesses who object to the recommendation, and estimate that it will cost £761million to the UK GDP)
'Analysis of the Impacts of Migration’ – Migration Advisory Committee, Jan 2012
'Review of Tier 2: Analysis of Salary Thresholds’ – Migration Advisory Committee, July 2015 (in which the MAC recommends occupation-specific pay thresholds)
'The Government’s Net Migration Target is Doing More Harm Than Good’ by Marley Morris –Huffington Post UK, Aug 2015
Theresa May’s Statement to the House of Commons – Gov.uk, Feb 2012 (in which she announces the 35k policy)
Home Office Impact Assessment of Changes to Tier 2 Settlement Rules – March, 2012 (in which they predict that 2,500 students will be impacted, and that the policy will cost between £181million and £565million to the UK GDP)
'Immigration Clampdown Will Hurt Technology Start-Ups, Warn Top Entrepreneurs’ – The Telegraph, Oct 2015 (featuring the 235 business signatories of the open letter opposing the pay threshold)
'A Fair Deal on Migration for the UK'– Institute for Public Policy Research
'UK Tier 2 Visa Immigrants must earn £35,000 to settle from April 2016’ – WorkPermit.com
'An Open Letter to Theresa May On Laws Basing Their Right to Settle in the UK on Financial Earnings’ by Angela Carlton – Project Q, Jan 2016
Important documents
Press
01/08/2016
Tom Conti: ‘I’ll pay £3000 to prevent deportation’
07/2016
26/06/2016
American dad has been told to leave Wales and his three young children
13/06/2016
UK facing 'digital skills crisis' warn MPs
08/06/2016
New British visa restrictions could get workers from non-European nations deported
05/2016
Britain's curry industry under threat.. What's the effect of the £35k cap for non-EU migrants?
25/05/2016
Father urges Home Office to honour deal as family faces deportation
21/05/2016
Oz Anger At Visa Changes For Non-EU Workers
13/05/2016
The hysteria about immigration statistics doesn’t stand up to scrutiny
13/05/2016
Immigration Act given Royal Assent
06/05/2016
Almost 200 Warwick jobs threatened by new immigration policy
04/2016
26/04/2016
Immigration : 3 700 euros par mois ou expulsé de Grande-Bretagne
23/04/2016
Curry industry chiefs urge Cameron to relax immigration rules
19/04/2016
I’ve lived in the UK for 9 years but the government wants to deport me
13/04/2016
The New Visa Law Destroying Women's Lives In Britain
07/04/2016 Al Jazeera English
New UK immigration rule under criticism
06/04/2016 Newsweek
Backlash against UK Government policy to deport tend of thousands
06/04/2016
06/04/2016 The Independent
Meet one of the women who the Government will be deporting because she doesn’t earn enough
04/04/2016
£35K OR OUT: NEW IMMIGRATION LAWS LEAVING PEOPLE & PROFESSIONS IN ANXIETY
04/04/2016
Thousands of Indian professionals in UK face uncertain future over new visa rules
04/04/2016 Real Media
£35K or out: New immigration laws waving people and profesions in anxiety
04/04/2016
Daily Rundown - 31st March - Stop35k.org
03/04/2016
NHS Has 70,000 Fewer Staff After New Headcount
01/04/2016
India raises visa issue with UK minister
03/2016
31/03/2016 Daily Rundown, Manchester
Chat with Josh Harbord about Stop35k.org
29/03/2016
Teachers sent packing in midst of recruitment crisis – because they earn too little
23/03/2016
Disaster for Theresa May as legal ruling brings student deportations to a halt
22/03/2016
Council of Europe Commissioner condemns anti-migration rhetoric by Cameron and May
18/03/2016
Immigrants Are Driving Billion-Dollar Startups, Study Finds
16/03/2016
Thousands of Indian workers to be hit by new U.K. immigration rules
12/03/2016 The Hindustan Times
Indians among those to be deported from UK if not earning £35,000 a yr
12/03/2016
UK will deport non-EU workers if they earn less than 35,000 pounds
12/03/2016
From April people will be deported for earning less than £35,000
12/03/2016 Guardian
The non-EU workers who’ll be deported for earning less than £35,000
10/03/2016
Watch: How the £35,000 income threshold for migrants could affect me
07/03/2016
Rising costs put third of Britain’s curry houses at risk of closure
07/03/2016 Parliament
Parliamentary debate on Non-Eu Skilled threshold law
07/03/2016 Independent
Theresa May’s new immigration rules labelled 'ludicrous' and 'simplistic' in key debate
07/03/2016 Independent
04/03/2016
NUJ members at risk of being deported from UK
24/02/2016
MPs to debate controversial £35k migrant pay threshold for first time
05/02/2016 Migrant Rights Network
Q&A: Why the £35k pay threshold is unfair, ineffectual and economically dangerous
05/02/2016 Independent
04/02/2016
35k threshold will do nothing to curb “uncontrolled mass immigration”
03/02/2016 NPR
Britain To Foreign Workers: If You Don't Make $50,000 A Year, Please Leave
01/2016
Earn £35,000 to Settle in the UK
25/01/2016
Shameful Start to Shakespeare 400: Dr Paul Hamilton Arrested and Held by UK Immigration
21/01/2016
South African expats could be kicked out of the UK
20/01/2016
Low-earning Australians to be kicked out of Britain under new visa rules
20/01/2016
A New U.K. Law Tells Migrants to Earn $50,000 or Go Home
20/01/2016
New Zealanders could be kicked out of UK if they don't earn £35,000
18/01/2016
Immigrants Will Have To Earn £35,000 To Settle In The UK From April This Year
19/01/2016
An open letter to Theresa May on laws basing right to settle in the UK on financial earnings.
19/01/2016
Theresa May set to charge firms employing skilled migrants £1,000 levy
18/01/2016
Petition to scrap plans for £35k threshold for non-EU citizens settling in the UK takes off!
18/01/2016
15/01/2016 Independent
27/10/2016
Immigration clampdown will hurt UK technology start-ups, warn top entrepreneurs
20/09/2015
22/02/2014
