Cleverly Announces Plans to Cut Net Migration by 300,000

The salary threshold for work and family reunion visas will be raised, and health care workers will no longer be allowed to bring dependants.

UK border signs are pictured at the passport control in Arrivals in Terminal 2 at Heathrow Airport in London on July 16, 2019. Daniel Leal/AFP via Getty Images

Home Secretary James Cleverly announced measures on Monday to tighten immigration rules, which he said would help reduce the number of net migration by 300,000.

It comes after the number of net migration in 2022 was estimated to be 745,000, some 60 percent up from that for 2021 and quadrupling the number in 2019, according to numbers released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).