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NHS Surcharge will increase in future to £600 per year

Post by bluebird12 » Sat May 20, 2017 5:02 pm

Conservative Party Manifesto 2017 says NHS Surcharge will rise in future to £600 ( I presume per year ) so for 2.5 years LTR it will be £1500.... not a surprise at all ....

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Re: NHS Surcharge will increase in future to £600 per year

Post by secret.simon » Sat May 20, 2017 5:35 pm

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Re: NHS Surcharge will increase in future to £600 per year

Post by Casa » Sat May 20, 2017 5:37 pm

bluebird12 wrote:Conservative Party Manifesto 2017 says NHS Surcharge will rise in future to £600 ( I presume per year ) so for 2.5 years LTR it will be £1500.... not a surprise at all ....
Why have you presumed that? There's nothing to suggest that the charges are for the length of the visa as they are now. i.e £600 for 2.5 years in the case of a spouse visa.
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Re: NHS Surcharge will increase in future to £600 per year

Post by seagul » Sat May 20, 2017 6:08 pm

During election compaigns every party has right to theoretically announce its own manifesto about which we don't need to open new new threads. If we search then few parties are also proposing for eliminating the income threshold like labour party. But at the moment their man focus will be to deal brexit and disagreements with EU & Scotland.
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Re: NHS Surcharge will increase in future to £600 per year

Post by Wanderer » Sat May 20, 2017 7:27 pm

Still cheap. You should see what I pay for health here in Ireland, and I'm a UK/EU citizen....

PSRI, USC, private insurance, and 60 quid to visit the Doctor, and no free prescription, but there is a cap on prescription charges of 144 quid a MONTH!
An chéad stad eile Stáisiún Uí Chonghaile....

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Re: NHS Surcharge will increase in future to £600 per year

Post by bluebird12 » Sat May 20, 2017 8:45 pm

seagul wrote:During election compaigns every party has right to theoretically announce its own manifesto about which we don't need to open new new threads. If we search then few parties are also proposing for eliminating the income threshold like labour party. But at the moment their man focus will be to deal brexit and disagreements with EU & Scotland.

As it looks obvious from Polls results that Conservative gonna win election again easily and I suspect new changes in immigration rules will be before 30 July 2017 after the decision of MMA case in Supreme Court...

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Re: NHS Surcharge will increase in future to £600 per year

Post by secret.simon » Sat May 20, 2017 8:59 pm

seagul wrote:During election compaigns every party has right to theoretically announce its own manifesto about which we don't need to open new new threads. If we search then few parties are also proposing for eliminating the income threshold like labour party. But at the moment their man focus will be to deal brexit and disagreements with EU & Scotland.
Perhaps in conventional elections. But in this election, where the only discussion seems to be how big the Tory majority will be (expectations ranges from 40 to 200), it would be more prudent to treat the Conservative Party manifesto as government policy announcements.

Such an increase can be brought in at relatively short notice, provided it is approved by both houses of Parliament. As Parliament is back on 19th June, the earliest that such an increase would be implemented is in July.
Casa wrote:Why have you presumed that? There's nothing to suggest that the charges are for the length of the visa as they are now. i.e £600 for 2.5 years in the case of a spouse visa.
While not stated in the manifesto, the FT and Times have reported it as a tripling of the IHS.
The Times - Conservative manifesto: hiring foreign workers to cost more wrote:Under the proposal, the annual skills surcharge per skilled worker from a non-EU state will double to £2,000 by 2022 and the immigration health surcharge payable by a foreign skilled worker will treble from £200 to £600.
FT - UK companies to pay £2,000 a year for each non-EU worker wrote:He calculated that the total cost for a UK company of bringing in a non-EU worker had already risen from £2,151 to £7,174, after the introduction on April 6 of a £1,000 a year migrant skills charge. He then calculates that the total would rise to £14,174 under the new proposals as the skills fee is doubled and a charge of £200 a year to use the NHS is tripled.
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Re: NHS Surcharge will increase in future to £600 per year

Post by seagul » Sat May 20, 2017 9:38 pm

Well the Google search will continue to give us multiple type of literature to back our assumption and taste. Since no one of us knows yet as what scale of changes will happen and which party will win. So better we save our manifesto over other queries and wait further. But any increase towards income threshold will affect a lot of other issues such as relating to benefits, wages rates, tax rates etc and without a justifiable cause it will trigger a lot court proceedings.
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