How the spending cuts affect the international graduates in construction industry

Employers with Visa Sponsorship worked closely with the public sector, working directly for the government's projects, particularly the big infrastructure project like road building, schools and hospitals. Due to the government’s spending cut, the public sector in the UK has been heavily affected. The spending cuts have caused a very small growth or even a contraction in the construction industry.

The spending cuts mean that international graduates with visa complications will face difficulties in obtaining employment or graduate training scheme from the contracting employers in the public sector for the next 3 years. Although growth in private sector offsets the shrinking public sector in the construction industry, however the private sector has less relationship with the home office and therefore unable to extend the visa of the international graduates to further work in the UK after the training agreement or post study visa