New immigration
rules for non-EEA
graduate trainees!
16 August 2016
From October this year, new measures are expected to be introduced which will grant employers more freedom to recruit non-EEA graduates easily and at a lower cost.
The minimum salary requirement for a Tier 2 Graduate Trainee will be lowered for applications submitted as of October 2016, as the UK government plans to reduce it from £24,800 to £23,000.
The government is also expected to increase the number of Tier 2 Graduate Trainee places available to each UK sponsor licence holder from five to twenty places each year.
This rule change will increase the number of non-EEA trainee graduates which UK sponsors are allowed to employ per year, and will be combined with another relaxation in the immigration rules surrounding graduate hires.
Click here to read more about the upcoming changes to the UK immigration rules and how they could affect you as an employer or an employee.
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