Agriculture: Seasonal Workers

(asked on 26th February 2019) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2019 to Question 220952 on Seasonal Agricultural Workers' Scheme, whether it will be possible for seasonal workers who have spent six months in any twelve month period working in the UK under the scheme and have left the UK to re-apply to the scheme and return to the UK.


Answered by
Caroline Nokes Portrait
Caroline Nokes
This question was answered on 1st March 2019

The Immigration Rules set no limit to the number of times a migrant worker can be granted leave under the Seasonal Workers Pilot, provided that grant of leave would not result in them spending more than six months in the UK during any rolling 12 month period.

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