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Yep all that you say.
So that's me in bother if this nonsense goes ahead this way.
Unless I can stay cos my son was born here.Most people outside London (and even in London) don't make 35K
The median (most common wage) in NI is 22K. So even if you earn median, nobody ever had to pay a cent for your education you had abroad and work you can still get bucked out.I can totally understand people want to leave the EU but the lack of a plan as in "ok we brexit, now we close the borders but everyone else can stay" or "you have worked here for 4 years you are grand" or ANYTHING practical.
So does Farage's missus earn 35K. Does she fuck probably.
JWestland
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.