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The support for visas for life in the UK has fallen for a third over the last year led by slowing down policies and slowing down the labor market, even since asylum applications have reached a high maximum, according to the registry office.
The data published on Thursday showed that 956,000 residential visas were approved in 2024, which is 32 percent compared to levels in 2023 and 2022.
In the same period, a record 108,000 people requested asylum, which is 18 percent increasing from 2023 and higher than the previous top of 103,000 in 2002.
Visa data in residence – which come because the Government is valid for further changes in policy to reduce immigration -I will believe the ministers that net migration numbers have already dropped from a record maximum of 906,000 in the middle of 2023.
But the increase in asylum applications, after increasing irregular arrivals by small boats that voters do not like the most, emphasizes the challenge facing the Government of the UK because it seeks to reduce the costs in the system and refuse to reform in the UK Nigel Farage.
The overall grants for visas fell mainly due to a sharp decline in visa assigned to health care workers and care and their families. They refused for 237,000, or 67 percent, between 2023 and 2024, as a result of several supervision of the home office and prohibition of care workers who bring family.
Other qualified workers’ visas fell by 11 percent between 2023 and 2024, with the highest falls in IT, engineering and finances. The decline accelerated at the end of 2024, with support in the second half of the year almost 40 percent lower than a year earlier.
They are likely to reflect more slowly employment in the British economy, as well as the impact of policy changes, with larger thresholds salaries that appreciate some employers.
Ben Brindle, a researcher of the Oxford University Migration Observatory, said that “Bum and Bust” has still left total grants in the last few years with visa to residents not significantly above the Brexit level.
However, visas related to jobs have been particularly suddenly fell to the lower paid jobs, such as butchers and chefs, he noted, with support in the food and catering sector, which reduced 73 percent of the year in the second half of 2024.
The number of visas approved by foreign students was 14 percent lower than in 2023, to 393,000, with a higher drop of 85 percent in students addicts, which reflects a new prohibition of family adoption.
However, the figures have also shown a sudden increase in the number of asylum seekers located in hotels since the Laborists came to power.
About 38,079 people were temporarily located in hotels due to lack of second accommodation in the registry office at the end of December – significantly below the peak of 56,042 in September 2023, but almost 30 percent compared to 29,600 when Work He won the general election in July 2024.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer vowed to close asylum hotels before winning the authorities drastically accelerating the processing of asylum requests and reducing the backlogs built under the previous conservative government.
The pledge proved to be much more challenging than predicted after the increase in the number of people who arrived in the UK through the transition of a small ship.
Immigration Minister Angela Eagle admitted last month that the number of hotel in Asylum used to increase to 220 with 213 at the time of the election, although the data on Thursday showed that more than 22 percent of asylum applications were processed within six months, which is the highest share in almost five years.
In the year to September 2024, the UK received the fifth largest number of asylum seekers in the EU.
The Government’s capacity to reduce the use of the hotel and drastically reduce the backlogs of the applications, it will have a nokal impact on the assistance received abroad, as a large share of the British official budget for development with domestic asylum seekers is consumed.
Starmer said this week that he would reduce the Od -e budget with 0.5 percent of gross national income to 0.3 percent to fund an increase in defense costs.
This means that the much higher proportion of OK budget will probably take over the asylum system in the coming years, unless the costs are crashed.
The asylum system cost £ 5.4 billion in 2023-24, compared to £ 4 billion in 2022-23, according to the registry office. The Od -e budget was about 4.2 billion pounds of costs.
Separate data from the Ministry of Housing, the Community and the Local Administration on Thursday showed that more than 20,500 households received support for homelessness after it was necessary to leave the accommodation for the asylum provided by the registry office of the year until September 2024. The number was 2.5 times more than a year to the year 2023.
