United Kingdom, the land of immense opportunities always remains a hot spot for immigrants across the globe. With a rich cultural history and a stable economy, UK is the destination for people wanting to resettle abroad. A land of physical beauty coupled with world's best living and working conditions, this country is a dreamland for skilled professionals.

One of the world's ultimate destinations, United Kingdom has so much to offer to its residents as well as immigrants. In last few years UK has introduced a number of new UK immigration, naturalization, visa, work permit and UK working visa categories. Since 2002, the UK has been actively encouraging skilled migrants to immigrate to the country through its Highly Skilled Migrant Program (HSMP). On 30 June 2008 UK introduced Tier 1 (General) visa for general highly skilled migrants, which replaced the previous one.

Total population of the United Kingdom is 61,113,205 (July 2009 est.) with the population growth rate of 0.279% and net immigration rate is 2.16 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2009 est.) Unemployment rate is as low as 5.5%. GDP per capita is $36,600 Life expectancy at birth of total population: 79.01 years. Country?s Literacy of total population is 99% with school life expectancy (Primary to tertiary education) is of 16 yrs.

The global economic slowdown across the Globe, short of liquidity, downfall in infrastructure sector however, pushed Britain back into recession in the latter half of 2008 and to fight against these all UK government came up with a number of new measures to stimulate the economy and stabilize the financial markets.