British PM Rishi Sunak has greenlit 3,000 UK visas for young Indian professionals to come to the UK to live and work for up to two years. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has given the go-ahead for 3,000 visas for young professionals from India to work in the UK each year.The British government said India is the first visa-national country to benefit from such a scheme, highlighting the strength of the UK-India migration and mobility partnership agreed upon last year. PM Narendra Modi meets Rishi Sunak; Greenlights 3000 UK Visas for Indians.
“Today the UK-India Young Professionals Scheme was confirmed, offering 3,000 places to 18-30-year-old degree-educated Indian nationals to come to the UK to live and work for up to two years,” the UK Prime Minister’s Office said in a tweet.This announcement came hours after Sunak met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the 17th edition of the G20 Summit on Tuesday.
It was their first meeting after the first Indian-origin British PM assumed office last month.”Prime Ministers narendramodi and RishiSunak in conversation during the first day of the @g20org Summit in Bali,” PM Modi’s Office said in a tweet.”The launch of the scheme is a significant moment both for our bilateral relationship with India and the UK’s wider commitment to forging stronger links with the Indo-Pacific region to strengthen both our economies,” 10 Downing Street said in a statement.
It said the UK has more links with India than almost any country in the Indo-Pacific region. Nearly a quarter of all international students in the UK are from India, and Indian investment into the UK supports 95,000 jobs across the UK.The UK is currently negotiating a trade deal with India – if agreed it will be the first deal of its kind India has made with a European country.
The trade deal would build on the UK-India trading relationship, already worth 24 billion pounds, and allow the UK to seize the opportunities presented by India’s growing economy.In parallel to the mobility partnership with India, the British government said it is also strengthening its ability to remove immigration offenders.
“A landmark Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the UK and India in May 2021 aimed at increasing mobility between our countries, returning those with no right to be in the UK and India respectively and sharing best practice on organised immigration crime,” the UK PMO added.The new scheme will see Britain offer 3,000 places annually to 18 to 30 year-old degree-educated Indians to come to the UK to live and work for up to two years.
I know first-hand the incredible value of the deep cultural and historic ties we have with India,” Sunak, who is of Indian origin, said.”I am pleased that even more of India’s brightest young people will now have the opportunity to experience all that life in the UK has to offer – and vice-versa – making our economies and societies richer.”
Sunak, however, is expected to take a tougher tone with Xi, with the statement describing the challenges posed by the world’s second-largest economy as “systemic” and “long-term”. His office said China’s “authoritarian leadership” was intent on “reshaping the international order.”
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He is expected to encourage China to “use its place on the global stage responsibly to resolve geopolitical tensions”, and stress that the pre-condition for any UK-China engagement will “always be the UK’s national security.”
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