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Forget curry chefs, this is truly depressing: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/mar/29/teachers-abroad-packing-recruitment-crisis-losing-staff
UK has got it wrong on immigration on so many levels .. that subject almost deserves its own thread.
Immigration is the easy fix for public approval rating so almost always the scapegoat. Cant wait to get over with this shit .. few months to ILR.
I could rant about NHS surcharge but its one of the rare things remaining that makes this country great so I dont mind paying a little more than every British citizen and kinda feel proud. The logic is twisted, they assume that a dependant wont work hence wont pay NI.
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YES! Teaching and STEM industries are suffering greatly now due to the tightened immigration rules, and it will get worse if BREXIT happens, so I am definitely voting IN (as a dirty commonwealth forrin, I can vote in the referendum).
I just mentioned the curry thing, because I wasn't something I had thought about before hearing about it on that program.
Doctor_Cake
I would believe that most EU immigrants wouldn't get one. Having gone through the non-EU immigration system, I've seen the hurdles you need to cross become substantially higher in the decade that I've been here. Right now, the biggest barrier is the requirement for a non-EU migrant to earn a wage of £35000 per annum or above.
Had this rule been in place when I was finishing my PhD, I would have had to leave, rather than staying in the UK to post-doc. One of the post-docs in the lab I was in (Singaporean national, PhD from Cambridge) opted to do research at MSKCC in the US, rather than here, because she wouldn't clear the wage barrier on a post-doc salary.
Add to that the application fees are outrageously expensive (applying for indefinite leave to remain cost me £1800) and add to that the new NHS surcharge they have (an extra £1000 on top of the application fee for an American colleague of mine), then yeah, I do feel it's out of reach for many.
There was even a story on the Today program yesterday about how we can't get the curry chefs in this country anymore because of the £35000 wage requirement.