Migrant Workers: Teachers

(asked on 17th December 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of offering free visa extensions for overseas teachers that are working in British schools during the covid-19 pandemic.


Answered by
Kevin Foster Portrait
Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 11th January 2021

The Government recognises the significant contribution which key workers, including teachers, have made during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Many overseas workers, including teachers, have been able to benefit from a range of concessions. For example, free extensions where a person’s visa expired after 24 January 2020, but before the end of August 2020, and they were unable to leave due to travel restrictions, or concessions on requirements of the immigration rules where salaries do not meet the normal salary requirements due to company-wide furlough.

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