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Proposals to double settlement requirements will increase exploitation, MPs tell Home Office
Voicing widespread concern from their constituents over the government's controversial plans to double the qualifying period for settlement, a number of MPs highlighted how this would exacerbate the risk of exploitation.
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Latest changes to the immigration rules: ‘a sub-optimal way to make policy’
The Home Office’s failure to first consider the impact of cutting 180 occupations from the Skilled Worker visa, and closing the Health and Care worker visa overseas, has been lambasted by a Lords Select Committee.
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Parliamentary report acknowledges scale of exploitation on the Skilled Worker visa
This report is the most damning evidence yet that the government’s work migration system, premised mainly on the concept of sponsorship, was facilitating the widespread exploitation of migrant workers in the UK.
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Skilled Worker visa route comes under scrutiny for migrant worker exploitation
During a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meeting, Home Office civil servants acknowledged that the Skilled Worker Visa route has been marred by exploitation, but indicated no intention to move away from sponsorship.
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Set on reducing net migration at all costs, the immigration White Paper is a confused document that is soft on addressing exploitation
The government's flagship immigration policies rely on the assumption that it can safeguard against exploitation by reducing net migration. Not only is this unlikely to have the stated effect on exploitation, it may in fact exacerbate it.
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