Crafts: Skilled Workers

(asked on 15th October 2024) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to add critically endangered crafts on the Radcliffe Red List to the Shortage Occupation List to help UK-based heritage craft businesses recruit skilled artisans.


Answered by
Lord Hanson of Flint Portrait
Lord Hanson of Flint
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 29th October 2024

Any job which meets the skill requirement of the Skilled Worker immigration route can be sponsored for a visa. The majority of the occupations on the red list are eligible to be sponsored.

The Shortage Occupation List (SOL) was replaced with the Immigration Salary List (ISL).

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