SUELLA Braverman is planning to increase the salary threshold for skilled migrant workers in a bid to cut arrivals.
The Home Secretary wants it raised from the £26,200 currently needed before a visa is issued.
Suella Braverman wants to see the salary threshold for skilled migrant workers raised to cut overall arrivalsAFP via Getty
An announcement may come before official immigration figures are released next month.
A Home Office source said: “Our points-based system hasn’t really operated in a way that we promised in our manifesto.
“The Prime Minister accepts that net migration is too high.
“He has been working closely with the Home Office on it.”
Migration hit 606,000 in May, figures showed, largely down to arrivals from Ukraine and Hong Kong under special schemes.
A further crackdown could also see dependants of unskilled workers, including seasonal staff, prevented from settling.
Mrs Braverman has barred most foreign students from bringing in their dependants.
She also clamped down on those attempting to switch from education into work.
Experts from the University of Oxford and London School of Economics predict migration will sit between 250,000 and 350,000 a year, above pre-Brexit levels, until the end of the decade.
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