The United Kingdom is not issuing more visas for high-skilled Indians despite the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) because it “isn’t part of the plans", according to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who is in Mumbai for a two day visit to India.

Starmer stated that he will push back against business calls to increase the number of highly skilled Indian workers allowed into the UK under the new FTA with India. "The visa situation hasn’t changed with the free trade agreement — we didn’t open up more visas. The issue is not about visas — it’s about business-to-business engagement and investment and jobs and prosperity coming into the United Kingdom," Bloomberg quoted Starmer as saying during an interaction with journalists on a flight to Mumbai.

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