Den britiske innvandringsministeren Damian Green varsler en kraftig omlegging av innvandringspolitikken: ufaglære ikke-europeere vil bli bedt om å dra. Storbritannia vil fra nå av tenke mer på seg selv: man vil velge de landet har behov for.

Dermed legger Storbritannia om til en politikk som ligner mer på Canada og Australiaa. Pick and choose.

Også kriteriene for familiegjenforening vil bli strammet inn.

Thousands of migrant workers will be asked to go home after a few years in Britain under policies to be made public this week.
Immigrants from outside Europe who do not have valuable skills or high earnings will lose their right to live permanently in this country.
Ministers indicated yesterday that a ‘transformation of immigration policy’ will leave room for only the ‘brightest and best’ to build new lives in Britain.

The revamp is expected to end the longstanding arrangements under which skilled workers allowed into the country on work visas may stay permanently after five years if their employers say they want to keep them.
It may set an income hurdle for migrants who hope to stay. Last year Home Office advisers said that only those earning more than £35,000 a year should have the right to settle permanently in Britain.

It is estimated that around 60,000 skilled workers a year, including chefs and nurses, win the right to permanent settlement under the present rules.
But Immigration Minister Damian Green said that in future those who come in on a work visa will find it more difficult to win the right to stay permanently.
‘You have to show genuine serious usefulness to British society,’ he said.
‘What we are saying is: if you are a particularly exceptional person we will make it easy for you to come here in the first place and we will allow you to stay for a certain amount of time and in some categories we will make it easier for you to stay here.

Low-skilled migrants will be told to go home: Only the brightest and best allowed to settle here
Dancers, musicians and intellectuals will be fast-tracked
Non-skilled foreigners will be told to go
Tougher rules on wives and husbands of immigrants