Immigration rules are about to be loosened as part of Liz Truss's mission to boost growth.
The prime minister is expected to expand the Government's shortage occupation list in order to help businesses fill vacancies by more easily recruiting overseas workers.
There are industry demands for more migrant workers to be granted visas to come to the UK, with labour shortages one of the main concerns of employers across a range of sectors.
The visa system for skilled work has not been responsive to the shortages they have experienced, and businesses are frustrated.
Downing Street did not deny that the Prime Minister is planning to liberalise routes to allow foreign workers to move to the UK, as first reported in The Sun.
During her campaign for the Tory leadership, Ms Truss promised to tackle the labour shortages in farming, partly caused by post-Brexit freedom of movement restrictions and a short-term expansion to the seasonal workers scheme.
A recent Government report warned that such shortages were seriously affecting the food and farming sector, forcing farmers to cull healthy pigs and leave fruit rotting in the fields.
The seasonal workers programme, which was first launched in 2019, temporarily allows 40,000 overseas workers into the UK for seasonal roles in the horticulture and poultry sectors.
It has been suggested that she could reduce the English-language requirement in some sectors to allow more foreign workers to qualify for visas.
A No 10 source said: We need to put measures in place so that we have the right skills that the economy, including the rural economy, needs to stimulate growth.
There will be increasing numbers in some areas and decreasing in others. The Prime Minister made clear that we want to see people who are economically inactive get back into work. The plan for migration reform is expected to be laid out by the Government later this year.
It appears to be a pivot away from Boris Johnson's position on immigration and may anger some Brexit voters.
Ms Truss insists that she is unapologetic in focusing on economic growth even if that means implementing unpopular policies.