UK IMMIGRATION HEALTH SURCHARGE WILL INCREASE TO £400 A YEAR FROM 8 JANUARY 2019

Following parliamentary approval in December 2018, the Immigration Health Surcharge will be doubled, effective 8 January 2019.

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The surcharge will rise from £200 to £400 per year, with the discounted rate for students and those on the Youth Mobility Scheme increasing from £150 to £300. Migrants who make an application on or after 8 January 2019 will pay the new surcharge rate.

The Immigration Health Surcharge is paid by people from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) who are seeking to live in the UK for more than 6 months to work, study or join the family. It gives migrants access to the comprehensive range of NHS services without further charge, subject to a few exceptions such as prescription charges in England.

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The surcharge levels remain competitive compared with health insurance requirements in comparable countries. For overseas students, the surcharge represents about 1% of the total cost of studying in the UK for a 3-year undergraduate course.

The new surcharge rate is intended to better reflect the costs to the NHS of treating those who pay it. The Department of Health and Social Care estimates that the NHS in England spends on average around £470 per surcharge payer every year. Their projections suggest that the increased charges may provide around an extra £220 million per year, with this money going straight back to NHS services.

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The NMC-UK has come up with a change in the registration process flow with effect from 7th Oct 2019.

The NMC-UK has come up with a change in the registration process flow with effect from 7th Oct 2019.

NMC accepts C+ score in OET writing

We are delighted to share the good news from the Nursing Midwifery Council UK that, NMC has confirmed that they will consider lowering the OET writing score to C+ on the upcoming council meeting on the 27th of November 2019. Until now overseas nurses were required to score B in all modules of the OET exam, but under the new proposal, a C+ score in writing will be considered for NMC registration.

Envertiz Consultancy Ltd is UK’s # 1 ranking International Nurses Recruiting firm, had strongly believed that reducing the writing scores for OET & IELTS will benefit both Nursing professionals from across the world as well as the UK’s healthcare system which is suffering from a shortage of medical professionals. So an online petition was started about 9 months ago by Mr. Febin Cyriac, the Founder Director of Envertiz, to reduce the OET writing scores to C+. This petition gained massive support with more than 18,400 people signing it.

In response to the plea, the NMC on its latest update has quoted: “Following an extensive evidence gathering and analysis exercise with OET, we have agreed that the OET writing domain score requirement will change from a B (350-440) to a C+ (300-340). This will bring it in line with our requirement for IELTS test-takers, which is an overall score of 7, but with a minimum of 6.5 in the writing domain as of this year.”

Last year, based on a similar petition which also was started by Mr. Febin Cyriac, the NMC had lowered the writing score of IELTS to 6.5.

We at Envertiz, feel immensely happy for all the aspirant nursing professionals from around the world who are going to be benefited from this proposed change. We would like to thank all who supported this petition and our online campaigns in this regard. http://chng.it/kRczg6Pr

We will be keeping you updated on further updates on this shortly.

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UK beyond Brexit, Migration and the MAC recommendations

The people across the world, who are really planning to migrate to the United Kingdom, are keeping their fingers crossed, anxious about the possibility of getting a chance, as the government of the UK is also working on the possible plans to promote migration of this overseas skilled workers into the UK. This will also greatly help the end beneficiaries – the people of the UK.

The home office said it would set out the details of what would be a “firmer and fairer new system” in the due course. The prime minister and the home secretary are working closely on these immigration reforms that would be implemented soon.

Currently, people from within the EU do not require a visa to work in the UK because they have the benefit of “freedom of movement”-although there are limits on claiming certain benefits. The EXIT of BRITAIN from the European Union has led to the stoppage of “freedom of movement” for the European Union citizens after a prescribed transition period. The transition period for leaving the European Union ends on December 31st, 2020.

To create and execute a safe and sound migration process to the UK, the government has set an independent Advisory Committee (MAC) which has eventually made a series of recommendations on how the new system should look from 2021.

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Few of the recommendations are:

i) A point-based migration system which is similar to the Australian process currently in existence and working. Though UK point system is exactly same as that of the Australian system, the independent migration advisory committee [MAC] has rejected a full shift to an Australian points-based system, publishing detailed research which gives a picture of how a reformed immigration system might look after Brexit and the ending of freedom of movement for EU nationals.

ii) The committee has also recommended a mixed system, which would rely on a minimum salary threshold for those people who are coming to the UK with a job offer and point-based system for skilled workers coming to the UK without a job offer. If the government wants a point-based system it should only introduce it for skilled workers without a job offer, the committee concluded.

iii) Salary Threshold limits:

Currently the main way into the UK for non-EU migrants requires them to have a job. Skilled migrants who come to the UK to take up a job would be allowed earn (£25,600) £4,400 less than the current £30, 000 thresholds for non-EU workers, under the proposals. The committee has also recommended higher thresholds for more highly paid occupations.

The Effect on NHS and other Care setups:        

Across NHS hospitals, community and primary care settings, there are around 150,000 doctors in total and over 320,000 nurses and midwives. As per the new immigration system, the changes are also expected to reduce pressures on the NHS, schools and social housing, though they will increase pressure on social care groups. The Committee has recommended reducing the existing salary threshold to £25, 600 to make it easier for teachers, NHS employees and people at the start of their careers to qualify and migrate.

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NMC Updates the English Language Test Score

Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) UK has approved the recommendations to accept a score of 6.5 in the writing module of IELTS after the serious engagement and particular consultation with the stakeholders today. The council has taken extreme caution and calculated steps by taking valuable feedback and reviews from the Nurses and Midwives serving in the UK who basically originate from the non-native English speaking countries.

Overseas nurses required to score level 7 in all IELTS modules to fulfill the overseas nurses registration requirement of the NMC UK, which was really hard to score, even after having a very high understanding on the language.

The NMC UK will be closely monitoring the changes for quite sometime in the future and this result would also create changes in the NMC UK’s international policy and statutory guidance. The aforesaid change would come in to effect from 5th December 2018. IELTS results under two years old that meet the new requirements will be considered from 5th December 2018. Successful applicants will still have to achieve a score of 7 in the reading, speaking and listening aspects of the exam with writing 6.5, resulting in an overall result of 7. The highest mark is a 9. NMC also confirmed applicants can still use two IELTS score sheets within the last six months to meet the above requirement. NMC has plans to consider the same on  Occupational English Test(OET).

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The government is to relax immigration rules to allow more non-EU skilled specialists into the UK. On Friday, the Home Office is required to affirm that foreign doctors and nurses will be excluded from the government's visa cap.

The cap - introduced by Theresa May when she was home secretary -sets a cutoff for all non-EU skilled workers at 20,700 individuals every year. However, NHS managers say the principles are making it hard to sufficiently select staff.

Saffron Cordery, of trade body NHS Providers, that the change was "absolutely the right decision. This is going to be a huge relief for trusts all over the nation who have been extremely attempting to fill their doctors and nurses vacancies,"

Alp Mehmet, of pressure group Migration Watch, said he has accepted the change but that it should not be the long-term solution.

"What we must not forget to do is train our own medical staff," he said, adding that the UK should not "raid other countries that need doctors and nurses a great deal more than we do".

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The proposed changes relate to so-called Tier 2 visas - which are used by skilled workers from outside the European Economic Area and Switzerland. On Tuesday, it was reported by the Financial Times that visa applications by doctors from outside the European Economic Area were denied in a five-month duration, evidently as a result of the cap.

And in April, NHS managers cautioned that movement rules were hampering their capacity to discover doctors after visas for 100 Indian specialists were refused. NHS England had 35,000 nurse vacancies and nearly 10,000 doctor posts unfilled in February.

As indicated by think tank Global Future, 12.5% of NHS England's staff are from abroad. That number ascents to 45% in specific specialities including pediatric cardiologists and neurosurgeons. The current annual cap on these visas has also led to over 1,000 IT specialists and engineers being denied visas. The proposed change would just apply to doctors and nurses - however could free up a large number of visas for labourers in different businesses like IT and teaching, regardless of whether the 20,700 aggregate didn't change.

Home Secretary Sajid Javid implied at the changes earlier this month, telling the BBC's Andrew Marr he "saw the issue" with the cap and would take a "fresh look" at it. His latest move could indicate a new direction for immigration policy post-Brexit, the BBC's political correspondent Ben Wright said. It could also encourage others to argue for the net migration target - which has never been met - to be abandoned, he said.

Source:  https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-44477095