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11:48 4th August 2009
A report on the UK's immigration system has revealed it ignores workers transferred by their companies and fails to acknowledge those without official qualifications.
In its study of communications and IT firms the Home Affairs Committee suggests some firms could be using inter-company transfers as a means of avoiding the UK's new points-based immigration system.
The committee recommended an "urgent and rigorous investigation", which could then have implications for people retraining hoping to find employment in IT careers.
Having reviewed the current immigration rules, MPs also found that businesspeople with years of experience but no qualifications could also be disadvantaged.
Chairman of the committee Keith Vaz MP said the government's new approach to managing migration is "very welcome", but warned that it should not so oversimplify "a complex issue that we get perverse outcomes".
The government has now changed the criteria of its citizenship test, which has made it harder to pass.
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