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Free UK visa extension for overseas health workers

17:47 10/04/2021
Sanwar Ali: addtional reporting and comments The Home Office has announced free UK visa extensions for overseas health workers. Many health care workers, including many who have been on the frontline...

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...

Applications for Immigration Health Surcharge refunds open

21:36 04/10/2020
Comments by Sanwar Ali : Finally, the immigration health surcharge refund scheme is available as of 1 October 2020. Please note that the immigration health surcharge increase s from £400 per year to...

UK health and care visa open to applications in August 2020

22:55 16/07/2020
Comments by Sanwar Ali : As many people have said already this new UK health and care visa system does not deal with the shortage of care workers in the UK. There is a shortage now and after the end...

Discriminatory UK visa algorithm faces legal challenge

23:31 25/06/2020
Comments by Sanwar Ali : Discrimination is very much in the Spotlight at the moment. The Home Office is currently being investigated by the Equality and Human Rights Commission over whether actions...

Immigration health surcharge scrapped for migrant NHS workers

23:14 25/05/2020
Comments by Sanwar Ali : In yet another u-turn the Prime Minister Boris Johnson on 21 May 2020 has accepted that NHS workers and care workers will not have to pay the immigration health surcharge. It...

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