President Cyril Ramaphosa acknowledged constraints with the visa system, saying it would be amended to attract and retain the skills the country needs.
thousands of afghan allies who had helped the united states military over those past few decades at great risk to their own lives, to their family s lives end up getting stuck in the country. and many afghans did make it out. they did make it to the united states where they now exist, many of them in a sort of legal limbo with mow pathway to permanent residency. but for those who remain trapped, their lives are at risk every day, and there s only the backlogged special immigrant visa system to help them are there any domestic efforts to update that visa system so that the backlog would be, you know, lessened a little bit? so there is one piece of legislation that has been introduced in congress in the last congress the afghan adjustment act, and that would aim to streamline the sib special immigrant visa process, expand eligibility as well as aid the afghan evacuees who are
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help with energy bills, the main driver of high inflation. you can see here where energy bills would have gone with no help in the lighter shade. the government has spent tens of billionsjust to keep bills at £2,500 for a typical household. you can see that in october and january. while that was due to rise to £3,000 in a few weeks time, we understand that will be postponed, effectively cancelling the further rise. eventually those prices will fall. what in the autumn was predicted to be a significant recession you can see here, will turn into a milder economic downturn, right now. but over the next few years a smaller workforce and vacancies which have fallen back but are still well over a million risk holding the economy back. the government is sceptical of what many businesses and economists point to, loosening the post brexit visa system for foreign workers in shortage sectors such as agriculture. there is still a shortage of people, and the consequence is we are letting lots