No More Visas for Indians, Pakistan and Africans : UK Government Begins Deporting Migrants
UK Government Begins Deporting Migrants: Thousands of care workers are being asked to leave the UK and it’s really sad. In a shocking update, over 3000 Indians and Africans are set to be deported, according to a release from the UK Home Office. The government is taking swift action. It has been revealed that these individuals were given fake licenses by some agencies, which have now been shut down by the Home Office. If you’re new here, please consider follow our whatsapp channel for more updates on life in the UK and other important news.
UK Government Begins Deporting Migrants
Let’s get started. The government has announced that over 3000 migrants from India and Africa bought certificates of sponsorship and came to the UK without the proper qualifications. So why shouldn’t they be deported? In today’s post, we will examine everything about the recent news that has put more than 3000 Indian and African care workers under threat of deportation after their licenses were revoked. It’s so unfortunate that many care workers are facing the threat of deportation. Thousands of them are affected. This situation is really bad because it has put many of them in difficult and inexplicable circumstances. Some of these workers borrowed money or sold their properties to move to the UK with their families.
Now they are receiving letters from the Home Office, giving them 60 days to either find another job or leave the UK. Trust me, it’s been really tough to find new jobs right now. Some of them have already left the UK, while others have only a few days or weeks left before their 60 day period expires. Let’s dive into this. A bunch of migrant care workers, mostly from India and Africa, came to the UK to help out with the shortage of care jobs after Covid hit. But here’s the kicker some folks took advantage of the system, causing some serious accusations of modern slavery. So what did the government do? They tightened up the rules big time. And because of this, many agencies that brought these workers lost their right to sponsor them.
Get this the Home Office found out that some of these agencies were total fakes. Can you believe it? People were making up agencies and using them for business without the Home Office even knowing they existed. Since the Home Office was short staffed, they couldn’t properly check them out and get this. Most of these phony agencies are owned by Nigerians and Indians who already have settled status in the UK. They used this status to bring over their family members. Shocking, right? So here’s the deal. Because these agencies had their licenses revoked.
The Home Office also decided to revoke the certificates of sponsorship of their employees, who were mostly Indians and Africans. Now here’s where it gets tricky. Those who were qualified managed to snag jobs at other companies. The Home Office gave them up to 60 days to find new sponsors. Since this mess wasn’t their fault. As reported by The Guardian Stick with me as we dive right into it revealed thousands of innocent and abandoned migrant care workers told to leave UK.
Thousands of migrant care workers have been threatened with deportation despite doing nothing wrong after the Home Office took enforcement action against their employers. In one case, a brother and sister from India who paid a recruitment agency £18,000 to secure care jobs in the UK only to find that they had been scammed, were told they must find another company to sponsor them in 60 days or leave the country. Can you believe it? After shelling out all that cash? The truth is, most of these folks didn’t even have that kind of money to begin with. They had to borrow, take loans from banks or relatives, and even sell off some of their belongings just to scrape it together. And for what? To get a job and move their families. Only to end up in the UK facing this kind of situation. It’s just not right. Zainab Contractor, 22, and her brother is Smil, 25, had borrowed money from relatives to cover the costs of moving to the UK.
But when they arrived, they say the accommodation they had been promised did not materialise and they were not given any shifts. They weren’t even working, didn’t have a job and now they’re being told to leave the UK in just 60 days. And to make matters worse, they can’t even find another sponsor. It’s a tough spot to be in for sure. In April, they found out that the company that had sponsored their visas had been stripped of its licence to recruit workers from abroad by the Home Office, but the enforcement action would also punish them. The siblings were sent a letter saying that because their sponsorship was linked to the sanctioned company, it was no longer valid exactly. Since they don’t have a licence anymore, they can’t sponsor them. It’s just common sense.
You can’t give what you don’t have. So their sponsorship is basically invalid. Now to tough break. They have since applied to more than 300 employers between them in the hope of finding another company to sponsor them. But as is common, they have been unable to find any willing to take them. If you could speak with 1 or 2 people affected by this, you’d quickly understand how tough it’s been. Finding new jobs, especially with sponsorship, has been a real struggle. Now imagine thousands of people in the same boat.
How many of them will actually be able to find a job within this limited time frame? Only a handful, if any. Trust me, it’s not easy. It’s incredibly hard. Just think about it. You tell all your friends, family, relatives, everyone that you’re leaving your job or shutting down your business back home. Maybe you were doing all right. Just getting by. But you take this big leap to move to the UK for work, only to find no job waiting for you.
And now there’s the looming possibility of having to go back home after just 60 days. It’s a tough spot to be in. No doubt about it. Zeinab, who moved from Maharashtra in India to build a better life for her two year old son, said they now faced returning home with debts they had no prospect of being able to repay unless they can find another sponsor by June. We don’t know how we will survive, she said. Ismail, who quit his job as an investment analyst to come to the UK, said it’s not fair we are being thrown out without being heard. Their case is not a one off. An investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the Observer has found that 3081 care workers had their certificates of sponsorship cancelled by the Home Office in 2022 and 2023.
In 94% of cases. The reason for the cancellation was that the company that hired them had its right to sponsor workers revoked. With all the new rules and policy changes. It’s become incredibly difficult to land another job. Many companies or employers aren’t willing to bump up the salary threshold for a skilled worker visa, or even consider hiring for care worker positions.
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