India dominates our immigration system, says UK Home Secretary Priti Patel

India is the leading nationality for skilled workers and students coming to the UK and therefore immigration should be dis-aggregated from the wider free trade agreement (FTA), UK Home Secretary Priti Patel said on Thursday.

"We are going to have the highest number of Indian students come to the UK for the new semester year. India dominates our immigration system," she said.

"Free trade agreements, FTAs, are absolutely there for trade purposes. When it comes to people to people movement or migration, they should not necessarily be in trade agreements," she said.

"We have introduced a points-based immigration system, a brand-new digital immigration system. That is up and running, it's working. And, the nationality that tops the list is India. It's a high skill, sponsored by employers to work across a range of sectors," the home secretary elaborated.

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