The new PBS was open to applications from 1 December 2020 and came into force on 1 January 2021. ![]() In February 2020, the government announced its plans for a new UK immigration PBS to be introduced at the end of the Brexit transition period. By November 2008 the PBS, with its five tiers, had been rolled out and since then the most radical changes to the employment categories of the UK immigration process have been operational. In view of the radical nature of these changes, they took over three years to be implemented. A complex series of passwords and user IDs are provided to each employer sponsor and all relevant information about an overseas migrant is held in a central government computer bank called the sponsor management system. For compliance checks to be more easily carried out by the Home Office, any employer wishing to employ overseas migrants pursuant to certificates of sponsorship is required to hold a sponsor's licence permitting it to do so. This dramatic change was coupled with an intention to make employers themselves responsible for assigning work approvals (to be known as Certificates of Sponsorship), based upon the objective application of the number of points achieved by a particular overseas migrant. This structure was intended to remove any element of discretion concerning who was, and who was not, permitted to enter the UK for work purposes. ![]() Persons who fell into any of the five tiers would have their applications determined by an objective PBS linked to specified attributes, such as salary, academic qualifications, and skill levels. ![]() In February 2005, the then Prime Minister Tony Blair announced that the government wished to dramatically alter the immigration landscape by sweeping away many of the various employment-based immigration routes, reducing them to five categories or 'tiers'. Over the past half century, a variety of routes became available to those who wished to enter the UK for working purposes, or to establish or join a commercial enterprise.
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