New UK immigration rules threaten academic mobility

The UK government’s latest immigration policy aims to increase the annual earnings threshold for skilled overseas workers coming into the country by nearly 50%, from £26,200 (US$33,100) to £38,700 (go.nature.com/3rqk8g2). This exceeds the starting salary for many UK postdoctoral and university lectureship positions, which are already hard to fill (see Nature https://doi.org/k87d (2022) and Nature 622, 419–422; 2023).

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