Migrant Workers: Social Services

(asked on 18th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has to extend the eligibility to apply for the proposed NHS Visa to social care staff.


Answered by
Kevin Foster Portrait
Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 26th June 2020

The Government is committed to introducing an NHS visa which will provide eligible doctors, nurses and other allied health professionals, and their families, with fast-track entry, reduced visa fees and dedicated resource. In addition, as announced by the Prime Minister on 21 May, NHS workers and wider health and social care workers, including those coming on the NHS Visa, will be removed from having to pay the Immigration Health Surcharge.

Further details, including regarding eligibility, will be published in due course.

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