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With Skilled Worker visa numbers in decline, what’s the cost?
After successive restrictions to migrant workers’ rights and increases to employer costs, the number of Skilled Worker visas issued is now at its lowest since 2021. But as vacancies in critical sectors remain unfilled, and the risks of labour exploitation continues, we find that behind the politics of lowering numbers, there are real human and economic costs.
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Radical restrictions of routes to settlement would be callous
On 20 November 2025 the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood published a consultation that proposes a radical restriction of migrants' and refugees' pathways to settlement. Our statement calls out the impact these proposals would have on migrant communities, and the stab in the back for care workers.
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Increasing qualifying time for ILR would increase the risk of poverty and exploitation, the MAC warns
Why the government’s ambition to further reduce net migration is a political choice that comes with serious economic and societal risks.
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