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Points mean migration... but just what will change?

Even as its population falls, critics fear Scotland will suffer under a tiered system that favours those who are highly skilled, writes Lucy Adams .

SAM Halstead, like hundreds of Kiwis, only planned to come to the UK for one year. Overseas experience, or OE' as it is more commonly known, is seen as a right of passage. Seven years later he is still here, working in Edinburgh as a public relations consultant.