Election promises are not actual changes in immigration policy

At election time the political parties all promise various things they would do if elected. As immigration is always a big issue in politics there are all kinds of promises about what each party will do for immigration if elected. IF a party is elected they SAY they will make some change. This is a big if, and we all know that pre-election promises are not usually trustworthy. Still almost 6 months after the election results we have no changes at all except for a pause on raising the median wage threshold for AEWV.

There are some people who took these promises too literally and actually made preparations for when these changes happen. With immigration policy in general, we never make decisions based on what may happen. All too often we have seen even actual policy announcements which changed significantly when the instructions were written into law.

In the end, these promises are only to get votes, so professionals don't take them as any indication of what future immigration policy will look like. In our experience when the Government changes, actual policy and practice at INZ changes very little.