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Data 27 Nov 2025

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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Policy 21 Nov 2025

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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Policy 6 Nov 2025

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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Our impact in 2024

£518k

Recovered for people exploited by their employers

653

People supported to understand and secure their immigration status

97%

Of clients know more about their employment rights

99%

Of clients would recommend us to a friend


Write to your MP

The government has no clue what it's like to be a migrant or low-paid worker in Britain today.

Yet they are making policies such as doubling the route to settlement and changing the immigration rules that will affect millions of people's lives.

We need to tell them.

Starmer

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