Visas: Migrant Workers

(asked on 23rd March 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her policy is on the visa status of migrant workers on Tier 2 work visas that become unemployed as a result of the covid-19 outbreak; and if she will make a statement.


Answered by
Kevin Foster Portrait
Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 21st April 2020

These are extraordinary times, and we are working hard to ensure no migrant workers are penalised unfairly by these events.

No one will have a negative outcome through the immigration system due to a circumstances which are beyond their control.

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