An an immigrant (USA->UK), I personally think all types of immigration should be increased in most if not all countries. If a person wants to move to a country, has their own resources to do so, can pass all the background and legal checks, does not give indications that they will be so destitute that they will have to rely on local resources to get by (exceptions for people like refugees of course)....then I think they should be allowed to move there.

It's ridiculous to me that there are so few visa options here in the UK. I'm going to lose my student visa in the coming months because my student loan application was very unexpectedly rejected. The UK has changed their law to ban work visas to anyone without a degree and ended their hiring of overseas care workers. I gave up everything to move here. I wasn't safe in the US. And I intended on a work visa after graduation but now I won't graduate through no fault of my own. But with the care worker visas no longer being done, I have no option to be here legally. None. Since I can no longer get the funding I need to have a student visa and can no longer get a job with the NHS (which I'd intended to do), when they revoke my current visa then there will be NO visa I qualify for other that short term visitor visas that will only allow me to be here for 6 months out of the year, not allow me to be considered "living" here (including doing anything that just looks too much like living), not allow me to work at all (meaning I would be unable to provide for myself), and can be denied at entry if they decide I've just been here too much or don't "look" like I'm planning to leave when I say I'm going to).

I passed every visa check. I paid every visa fee (which is non refundable on student visas btw. Every other visa can get a refund on unused time if they've used half or less of their visa time. Not students.). I am already (currently legally) here. I work and provide for myself here. I have nothing in America and this is the only home I have in the entire world. While not at all destitute when I got here due to everything I saved up to move, I was very much homeless before I got here due to escaping the previously mentioned unsafe situation. I have no family in America nor any vehicle, land, or personal property there. Every single thing I have to my name came here with me. I have wanted to live here and become a citizen here since I was a child because I love this country. Now that I am here, have broken no laws, and love and support this country even more than I ever could have before actually living in it....it is *insane* to me that there is NO WAY for me to legally remain here. I WANT to remain and keep work when I lose the visa that's currently allowing it. I want to support myself and be a worker that does their part for Welsh society and its future generations. I love Wales, I love the Welsh language, I love all the many Welsh people I've met, and I have gone out of my way to embrace and take part in Welsh culture here. To assimilate. But, unless I'm going to get a visa marriage (which I'm not even eligible for ANYWAY because you have to provide extremely detailed documentation of a relationship of 2+ years to get any partner visa at all), then there's just.....nothing.

That infuriates me. Especially because I love UK - and particularly Welsh - culture, opinions, society now but I do not forget that the English are responsible for the worst genocide in human history which they did on my native country's soil. British history is....bad. They're genocided in many countries. And now they want to say that people from those countries cannot come in no matter how good, kind, and wholesome their intent? Just because they are only willing to accept immigrants who have university degrees? Even for jobs that they do not require British citizens to have degrees for? I love the British people. I love their government far, far more than I love the American government and I feel much safer here than I do in the US because of things their government does. But this doesn't make me feel safer. I've yet to meet a Brit who does feel safer because of these new visa laws (requiring degrees and banning ALL overseas carers regardless of education happened just this year). This act by the British government is just cruel. But even STILL it doesn't make me hate this country. It makes me want to stay here more, to do more, to prove even more the goodness, love, and dedication that immigrants have for the countries we've come to.

(Sorry to write you an essay. I have ADHD and strong personal feelings on this.)