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Rishi Sunak gives green light to UK-India Young Professionals Scheme as he seeks to smooth the path for a new trade deal
Three thousand Indians a year will be granted visas to come to the UK under a new scheme signed off by Rishi Sunak as he seeks to smooth the path for a new trade deal.
The Prime Minister has given the green light to the UK-India Young Professionals Scheme, which will be open to Indians with degrees aged between 18 and 30 to come to the UK for two years.
The move, confirming an agreement worked up by Boris Johnson, will be seen as a good will gesture from the UK given Delhi is pushing for more visas as part of a trade agreement.
But both the scheme and Mr Sunak’s refusal to put an “arbitrary number” on migration targets could become points of tension with Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, who has raised concerns about the number of Indian migrants overstaying visas.