The Home Office has been tightening up skilled visa's for about three years now. It used to be easy to do, but is becoming very difficult. But, I can see the o

The Home Office has been tightening up skilled visa's for about three years now. It used to be easy to do, but is becoming very difficult. But, I can see the other side of the coin - there's no way you can claim that skills are in shortage when you consider that you're hiring pool is the whole of the EU. All too often people claim they can't get "skilled workers" and what they mean is that they only want the fully finished article and won't invest in training or development for existing employees. Putting in career paths and development for employees is good for retention and doesn't have to be that costly.