The United Kingdom could soon make it easier for foreign professionals, including Nigerians, to secure employment under its work visa programme, following a series of recommendations aimed at addressing labour shortages across key sectors of the economy.
The proposals were put forward by the UK’s independent Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), which has advised the government to review salary requirements across several immigration routes in a move that could widen access to jobs for skilled workers from countries such as Nigeria and India.
If adopted, the recommendations would reshape the Skilled Worker visa route, one of the most common pathways used by foreign professionals seeking employment in the UK.
A key recommendation by the committee is the reduction of occupation-specific salary thresholds.
Rather than requiring salaries to meet the current median earnings level for a particular occupation, the MAC proposed that salary requirements should be pegged to the 25th percentile of
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