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. UK businesses employing foreign nationals should start ensuring systems are in place to comply with the new rules now as the Border and Immigration Agency (BIA) has already begun compliance audits. The PBS is based on the Australian model and has been developed to provide a simpler, clearer and easier to enforce system, superseding the current confusing range of worker entry routes.
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