The UK government introduced new immigration rules that will reduce the influx of immigrants into the United Kingdom. Therefore, individuals moving to UK from Portugal via a or other visa types must understand and comply with the new immigration rules. The UK is a sought-after destination for foreign nationals including Portuguese citizens who want greener pastures outside the shores of their countries.
Currently, there are more than 250,000 Portuguese nationals in the United Kingdom and Portuguese is widely spoken in England and Wales as it's ranked 10th most common language. However, after Brexit, EU citizens including Portuguese nationals must get a UK visa to enter the country and stay for more than 6 months. With the introduction of the new immigration rules, some of the requirements for these visas have been tightened to reduce net migration into the country.
In this article, we intend to examine the new immigration rules UK 2024 and some visas Portuguese nationals can obtain to enter the United Kingdom. The UK Home Secretary James Cleverly introduced new immigration rules on December 4, 2023, by unveiling a 5-point plan to reduce net migration to the UK. Before the announcement of the new immigration rules, statistics revealed 745,000 net migration of people by the year ending December 2022 and about 672,000 net migration of people by June year ending 2023.
Some of the reasons for the creation of the plan are to reduce immigration into the UK which was at an all-time h.