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UK immigration delays keep doctors off COVID-19 frontline

11:52 13/01/2021
Continued UK immigration delays affecting migrants doctors are keeping them off the frontline in the fight against COVID-19. With the NHS crumbling under the strain of rising coronavirus cases, and...

UK visa extension for NHS doctor seriously ill with COVID

10:41 04/12/2020
The UK Home Office has finally extended the visa of Egyptian cardiologist, Basem Enany, who fell seriously ill with coronavirus. Dr Enany, who works for the NHS, feared he would be removed from the...

UK visa free entry for Bulgarians from 2021

15:21 25/11/2020
Bulgarian citizens will be able to enter the UK, visa free, for up to six months from 1 January, 2021, according to reports from the Bulgarian Embassy in London. UK visa free entry will allow...

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 visa rules forcing migrant NHS workers to leave Britain

11:43 14/11/2020
With Britain in the grip of a second lockdown amid the coronavirus pandemic, UK visa rules are forcing migrant NHS workers to leave the country, sparking fears of the UK’s response to COVID-19 being...

37-week wait for UK migrants needing NHS care, research says

22:46 16/10/2020
Comments by Sanwar Ali : Migrants are typically having to pay for health care twice. They pay through taxes. They also have to pay the immigration health surcharge that is increasing from £400 a year...

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