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U.S. tightens the visa rules; UK entice foreigners
By siliconindia
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Monday, 08 November 2010, 19:16 IST
Bangalore: The visa problem is so grave that it became one of the main topics to be extensively discussed among the entrepreneurs and technocrats in India. When the U.S. government is trying their best to create job for the localities by adding strict rules to its visa processing British Prime Minister David Cameron has got a different approach to it. He said not enough was being done to attract the next generation of wealth creators and job makers to Britain.
Britain will introduce a new category of visa - Entrepreneur Visa - to encourage foreign nationals from India and elsewhere to catalyse economic recovery in the country. Referring to recent Home Office research that showed many professionals from India and elsewhere who entered Britain under the highly skilled category were in fact doing unskilled work, he said the Tier one category "was a total failure".
Cameron said that the new Entrepreneur Visas will mean that if you have a great business idea, and you receive serious investment from a leading investor, you are welcome to set up your business in our country. So as we act to bring net migration to Britain down to the tens of thousands, I want this message to be heard loud and clear the whole world over: In every classroom or laboratory where a bright idea is born, every bedroom where a business case is put together, if you've got an idea, if you want to create jobs, and if you have the ambition to build a world beating company here in the UK.
Professionals entering Britain under the highly skilled category and ending up doing unskilled work, Cameron said, was "wrong and it's got to change". The Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition introduced the controversial cap of 24,100 non-EU migrants until April 2011, by when a permanent limit will be imposed.
The introduction of limit and reduction of non-EU economic migration, will reform tier one to make sure that it is genuinely a route only for the best. Cameron announced in the House of Commons last week that the Inter-Company Transfers (ICT) category of visa, which is widely used by Indian companies with office and branches in the UK, will not be affected by the current review of immigration rules.