Chief Immigration Inspector: One in Four Foreign Care Workers Abusing Visa Rules

A quarter of foreign care workers are working illegally, the chief inspector of borders and immigration has said. On Monday, Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration David Neal told The Times Of London that thousands of migrant care workers are believed to be abusing UK visa rules. The migrants are allowed to work under a policy which restricts them to jobs on the shortage occupation list which includes care workers and home carers, designed to fill catastrophic labour shortages in the industry. Visas However he told the publication that the Home Office had issued 275 visas to a care home that did not exist and 1,234 to a company that stated it had only four staff when given a license to operate....