UK to cap migration on non-EU workers

UK to cap migration on non-EU workers at 24,100.

Written by Agencies
London | June 26, 2010 05:59 PM IST

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Despite voices of caution,Home Secretary Theresa May is going ahead with controversial plans to place an annual cap on the number of Indian and other non-Euuropean Union professionals who can be hired for jobs in Britain.

Indians are one of the largest groups of non-EU professionals to migrate to Britain every year,taking up jobs in the IT,medicine,finance and education sectors.

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May is scheduled to place a temporary cap of 24,100 non-EU migrants who could be hired for jobs in Britain between now and April 2011,when the annual cap plan will be firmly in place.

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