A five tier points based system will replace more than 80 existing immigration categories and all employers must familiarise themselves with Tiers 1 and 2 of the new system.
New points based immigration system to start in the new
year
Following two years of radical planning to reform the UK immigration system, the Government has announced that the implementation of the new points based system (PBS) will come into force from April 2008.
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