The FA has proposed changes to the current system by which non-EU players are able to play in English football.
The proposals are in a bid to reduce the numbers coming to England from next season by up to 50 per cent.
Changes were first proposed by FA Chairman Greg Dyke’s England Commission in May and over the summer discussions have taken place with the Home Office regarding the process for change.
The system, called the Governing Body Endorsement (GBE) process, was introduced by the Home Office in 2008 to allow the governing body of each sport to manage a systematic objective approach for endorsing visa applications of elite players from non–EU countries.
The defined criteria are designed to result in visas only for those elite sportspeople ‘who are internationally established at the highest level whose employment will make a significant contribution to the development of their sport at the highest level in the UK’.
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