Migration messaging

What will the government do next in its attack on higher education visas?

As we await the full results and ramifications of yesterday’s local elections, we turn our attention to a story that Playbook can be pretty confident will be making headlines in the weeks to come. Yep, you guessed it. Visa reform.

We have been covering the issue for some time, as regular readers will know. But it seems we are approaching a crunch point in the government’s war on university recruitment—both of staff (increasing the minimum earnings threshold for skilled visas) and students (banning many from bringing dependants and reassessing graduate visa rights).