ALERT DEPORTATION CAMPS Theresa May urged to rethink new £35,000 earnings threshold for non-EU migrants as teachers face deportation | The Independent

Theresa May urged to rethink new £35,000 earnings threshold for non-EU migrants as teachers face deportation | The Independent

Theresa May urged to rethink new £35,000 earnings threshold for non-EU migrants as teachers face deportation

Migrants from outside Europe who have lived in the UK for more than five years will have to prove they will be paid the new minimum threshold in order to stay in the country

• Matt Dathan, Adam Withnall 
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• Friday 15 January 2016
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Theresa May is facing calls to rethink the “discriminatory” new earnings threshold of £35,000 for non-EU migrants that could starve Britain of vital talent in the teaching, charity and entrepreneur sectors when the changes take effect in April. 

Overseas workers who have lived in the UK for five years will have to prove they will be paid the new minimum threshold in order to stay in the country. 

Those who fail to demonstrate earnings of more than £35,000 will be denied settlement in the UK and will face deportation according to the new Home Office policy.