In the short three month period between December 2017 and March 2018, a huge 6,080 applications for Tier 2 work visas were made by skilled overseas workers to fill the gap in STEM job roles within science, technology, engineering and maths. Despite this, more than half of these applications, over 3,000, were rejected by UK immigration authorities.

One of the reasons for this was because of the high costs to a business associated with employing people from outside of the UK. The average cost of employing a skilled worker from overseas to a business that holds a Tier 2 sponsorship license reached a high of £60,000 in June 2018. Therefore, 2018 has seen a serious shortage in the amount of Tier 2 visas being granted to people wishing to apply to work in STEM job roles from outside the UK because businesses simply can’t afford to recruit from overseas.

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