Question follow-through · 40547

Visas: Skilled Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether there is any flexibility in the thresholds for (a) minimum working hours and (b) actual hours worked in the context of Skilled Worker visa applications.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 24 Mar 2025
Target answer date: 27 Mar 2025
Answer: 27 Mar 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

24 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether there is any flexibility in the thresholds for (a) minimum working hours and (b) actual hours worked in the context of Skilled Worker visa applications.
27 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Mar 2025
Answer published
The general salary threshold applies regardless of the number of working hours. The occupation specific going rates are assessed according to a worker’s contracted hours, which is consistent with the approach taken in national minimum wage guidance. Some ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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