Immigrants 'must add to British life' says MinisterPost by David Elliott on 3rd February 2012 in Immigration Anyone wishing to come to live in the UK from outside the EU must be able to "add to the quality of life in Britain". The remark was made by immigration minister Damian Green, in a speech to the think-tank, Policy Exchange, in London. He said that prospective migrants to the UK would be expected to be able to earn more than £31,000 a year. In his speech, he cited a report by the government-appointed Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), which found that every 100 non-EU migrants who arrived in the UK and took jobs resulted in 23 fewer jobs being available to British workers. "The key insight of the MAC's work is that the measure of a successful immigration policy is how it increases the wealth of the resident population," Mr Green said. "Importing economic dependency on the state in unacceptable," he added. New criteria are also set to be introduced covering all routes of entry – work, study and family – Mr Green earlier told BBC Radio Kent. "We want people either to fill skill gaps we may have... [or] we want to know that they are being offered jobs that are genuinely at a skill level," he told the station. "Similarly with students, we want to make sure that they are genuine student studying genuine courses at a genuine institution."
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