London about 30,000 Indians and 19,000 other non Europeans successfully overturned the British government’s hard line new rules for highly skilled migrant workers with the high court here on Tuesday terming the immigration changes unlawful and a rank abuse of power.
The legal triumph for the highly skilled migrant forum which was the lead appellant in the 14-month case puts Britain’s progressively tighter immigration policies under the lens. Six month ago thousand of Indian doctors won their high court challenge to the British government to force it to treat them on a par with European medics.