visa application fees

Rishi Sunak, the British prime minister has announced that visa application fees are set to go up significantly as part of efforts to raise over a billion pounds to plug revenue shortfalls. Sunak during an address at Downing Street (July 13) listed a number of government priorities amid an economic downturn among others to halve inflation, grow the economy and reduce debt, whiles noting a big pay award for teachers in a bid to avoid an intended strike. He said of the pay award: “This is a significant pay award and it is costing billions of pounds more than the…