• Wednesday, April 24, 2024

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Britain ‘pricing migrants out’

By: Eastern Eye Staff

by NADEEM BADSHAH OUTRAGE AMID ‘PROHIBITIVE’ COST OF VISA AND PASSPORT APPLICATION FEES MIGRANTS in the UK – among them doctors and nurses – are facing poverty due to the rocketing price of Home Offices fees, lawyers and cam­paigners have warned. They have hit out at the rising charges for asylum, immigration and nationality applications and say it is breaking up families with some moving back to south Asia because they cannot afford the costs. Among non-EU migrants affected are those work­ing in the NHS who face visas costs of £1,200 and a £600 Immigration Health Surcharge – paid every time…

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