Immigration has made the UK economy stronger, and the current system does a good job of attracting global talent. The new High Potential Individual (HPI) visa, for instance, allows graduates of some of the world’s top overseas universities to move to the UK for up to two years without a job offer. But there is still room for improvement.
In True Potential, Jason Sockin and Sam Dumitriu explain how the HPI visa’s methodology excludes graduates from many of the world’s top performing universities in terms of post-graduation earnings. They detail an alternative approach to eligibility, based on real-world market data from Glassdoor. Under their system, which would allow any overseas graduates who attended a university with higher potential earnings than the median-performing, currently eligible university, graduates from approximately 100 universities spanning 13 different countries would be able to access to the visa.