Navigating New Horizons: Understanding the UK's Evolving Skilled Worker Visa Landscape

A fresh tide rises on Britannia's shore,

For Skilled Workers, rules are changing more.

From July twenty-second, a new decree,

The UK's welcome, now with altered key.

No longer RQF three, the bar is raised,

To RQF six, a higher skill embraced.

Degree-level roles, the nation now desires,

While humbler trades face cooling fires.

The salary scales, a steeper climb they show,

For many a hopeful, the figures grow.

From thirty-eight to forty-one, the thousands rise,

A higher earnings proof before their eyes.

And for the care workers, a poignant plight,

Overseas recruitment, barred from this new light.

Only in-country now, their vital hand,

A tighter circle for those who lend a stand.

A Temporary Shortage List, a brief reprieve,

For some RQF three to five, it will conceive.

But with a caveat, a burden to bear,

No dependants granted, a heavy cross to share.

The older rules, a grace for some who've trod,

If CoS issued ere the twenty-second's nod.

A transient solace, a path for those already in,

But new horizons bring a different spin.

So let the hopeful weigh each word with care,

The UK's gates, with new demands in air.

For those who seek to build a life anew,

A changing landscape, challenging and true.