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Home Office in UK visa U-turn for migrant wind farm workers

9:21 13/07/2021
The Home Office will allow migrants to work on offshore wind farms without UK visas in an ‘11th hour’ U-turn. However, the last-minute decision to extend the visa waiver has been blasted by MPs and...

Home Office U-turn on UK visa extensions for migrant NHS workers

17:11 21/11/2020
In yet another Home Office immigration U-turn, 6,000 frontline migrant NHS workers will have their UK visas further extended. The government agency had initially refused to extend the visas of...

UK to remove migrant workers' tax-free allowance

19:00 04/09/2014
The UK government is considering changes to the tax system which could cost low-paid migrant workers thousands of pounds a year. The changes could mean that some will find it less attractive to come...

UK introduces online visa checks for migrant workers

17:34 07/12/2011
UK Immigration Minister Damian Green announced this week that UK employers will soon be able to carry out online visa checks to verify whether migrant workers have the right to work in the UK. The...

Migrant workers being brought illegally into UK

11:20 21/06/2005
The BBC has found evidence that many Eastern European workers are being brought in illegally by a gangmaster in Cornwall in the UK . The BBC has found out that at least two Russians have been working...