The Home Office has announced a deal with India that will allow thousands of young adults to live and work in each other’s countries for two years.
The Government believe that the scheme for 18–30-year-old professionals will allow the best and brightest to come to the UK based on skills and talent.
The Young Professionals Scheme will be open to a maximum of 3,000 people from each of India and the UK per year, although the two Governments can decide to raise or lower this limit.
Those taking part must have at least three years’ training relevant to their field of work, at university level or equivalent and be able to express themselves in the language of the host country.
Participants will not be able to take any children or other dependants with them.
The scheme forms part of wider business agreements between the two countries worth around £1 billion that will see cooperation over the next decade in a variety of areas including health, climate, trade, education, science and technology, and defence.
The UK and Indian governments are also promising to work constructively to reduce illegal migration between them, including mounting a stronger fight against the use of forged documents.
Home Secretary Priti Patel said: “This landmark agreement with our close partners in the government of India will provide new opportunities to thousands of young people in the UK and India seeking to live, work and experience each other’s cultures.
“This agreement will also ensure that the British government can remove those with no right to be in the UK more easily and crack down on those abusing our system.”
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