UK Immigration News

The Immigration Health Surcharge is very high and for many people is unaffordable.  Migrants on Tier 2 visas sponsored by Sponsor Licence employers are paying twice.  They are taxed in the UK to fund the NHS and are also being charged the Immigration Health

It seems especially after the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic and the needs of the NHS, there will have to be a major review of the new UK visa points system.  Many lower skilled key workers that are needed now and in the future will not be able to

UK visas at the Home Office has confirmed on 29 April 2020 that the free one year extension covers all visa holders on the list of front line health care workers, whose visa is due to expire by 1 October.  Not just Tier 2 visa holders and not just NHS health care workers. 

Applications can be made under the coronavirus furlough scheme from Monday 20 April as announced by Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer whose grandparents were born in Punjab, India.  The right-wing Boris Johnson UK Conservative Government is handing out enormous State subsidies to keep businesses afloat.

During the coronavirus pandemic Londoners try and get on with their lives.  The "UK Lockdown" has now been extended for another three weeks at least until 7 May 2020.  I am including below various scenes of the Docklands area of London during the Coronavirus.  During coronavirus COVID-19 I am avoiding travelling too far to take pictures!  So these scenes are near to the home and office in the London Docklands area.

70% of deaths of health and social care workers due to coronavirus COVID-19 have been people from an ethnic minority.  People from BAME groups (Black, Asian and minority ethnic) represent 13 percent of the population in England and Wales.  However, 44 percent of NHS doctors and 24 percent of Nurses are from a BAME group.&