Immigration System and Brexit

move: The length of time young doctors from outside the EU are able to stay in Britain under the scheme may also rise from two to three years, according to well-placed sources, according to The Guardian. The change comes as the government is under pressure to explain how its intention to move to a new immigration system after Brexit, with right of entry dependent on skills, will help alleviate NHS under-staffing. Ministers have agreed to significantly expand the 1,500 doctors a year allowed to come and work in Britain under the medical training initiative MTI . The move could result in the maximum number of non-EU medics able to come rising to as many as 3,000. Ministers believe the NHS-wide shortage of medics is so acute, especially in hospitals, that they have to lift the cap on the number who can come in under the MTI, even at the risk of provoking a row about immigration. He recently wrote to Caroline Nokes, the immigration minister, to suggest the change and has played a key role in making it happen. Matt Hancock, the health secretary, has been lobbying the Home Office over the issue in recent months. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.