


Making Migration Work for Britain
The new points based system, Making Migration Work for Britain, is due to replace both the Work Permit Scheme and the Highly Skilled Migrant Program. Below follows a brief description of the five categories of applicants:
- Tier 1- designed to bring into the UK those migrants with the very highest skills. They do not need a job offer and will have unrestricted access to the labour market. A migrant who enters under Tier 1 will not need a sponsor under the new system. Tier 1 will replace the current highly skilled migrant programme.
- Tier 2 - Skilled workers with job offer. Tier 2 is for those skilled workers who have received ajob offer from a UK employer. Their attractiveness to the UK is demonstrated by the fact that a UK employer wants to take them on.




