London: graduates of the 50 best non-UK universities in the world, including Indian students, can now come to work in Britain thanks to a new high potential visa route (HPI) launched on Monday in London.
In a joint announcement, the ministers of the Indian Origin Rishi Sunak and Prina Patel’s cabinet said that the new “exciting” category as part of the post-Brexit points aimed at attracting the “better and most brilliant From all over the world, whatever nationality.
The candidates selected will receive a two -year work visa, with a three -year visa offered to those who have a doctorate, without the need for a specific job offer in hand.”This new visa offer means that the United Kingdom can continue to attract the best and most brilliant people around the world,” said Chancellor Rishi Sunak.“The route means that the United Kingdom will develop as a leading international hub for innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship. We want the companies of tomorrow to be built here today-that is why I call students to take advantage of this incredible opportunity to forge their careers here, “he said.
“The United Kingdom already houses some of the most revolutionary start-ups, at the forefront of R&D and an incredibly diverse and exciting place to live-come and join you,” added Sunak, born in the United Kingdom, Himself an MBA of Stanford University in the United States.As part of the new road, the best graduates in the world in subjects such as science, engineering and medical research will be encouraged to bring their skills to the United Kingdom after graduating from prestigious universities such as Harvard, Stanford and put.
“I am proud to launch this fascinating new path as part of our immigration system based on points that puts capacity and talent first – not where someone comes from,” said British secretary Priti Patel .”This government delivers to the British people by bringing the high skills and the talents that our country and our businesses need,” she said.The list of the 50 main universities has been identified from the classification lists produced each year by “QS”, `Times Higher Education” and the “academic classification of world universities” and covers universities of the United States, Canada , from Japan, Germany, Australia, Hong Kong, China, Singapore, France, Sweden and Switzerland.
The new HPI Visa route will cost approximately GBP 715 and will have the opportunity to call on dependent people or family members. According to the UK Home Office, an applicant postulating under this road must have funds of at least 1,270 GBP and be eligible, an institution must be outside the United Kingdom and must have appeared in the top 50 of at least two Three rankings for the year during which the applicant received the qualification.
“Graduates of the universities listed are eligible for the high potential individual road program, whatever nationality,” said a spokesperson for the Home Office.Each of the eligible universities attracts students from around the world to study. There are several other routes eligible for graduates of other universities, including the graduate, skilled workers and the world talent road,” said the spokesperson.
The Home Office notes that the list of the 50 best institutes in the world has been identified from three of the most reliable university ranking lists in the world, which are largely cited by the education system and used in immigration systems in the world.”The use of a combination of these lists provides independent validation for institutions and opens up the possibility for new international universities to go up the ranks and join this list in the future,” added the spokesperson.The HPI Visa is intended to attract an unlimited number of talented graduates at the early stages of their career, which “demonstrate an exceptional promise, offering a very desirable and recruitable mobile talent basin”.
Meanwhile, international students, including the Indians, who study in the United Kingdom in one of the best universities are already eligible to stay up to three years thanks to the graduate visa-popularly called post-study visa – Opened last July year.The British government said these new visas were part of a series of changes to the country’s immigration system after leaving the European Union (EU) and grant visas “according to the skills they have to offer and the contribution they can make, not where they come from “.A new global commercial mobility route has been opened in April of this year to simplify and improve various routes to allow companies to develop. Later this year, the scaling visa route aims to support companies in the recruitment of talents by allowing them to bring employees to the United Kingdom.