• Saturday, April 27, 2024

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Indians among thousands being denied skilled visas to UK

By: Sarwar Alam

Indian engineers, IT professionals, doctors and teachers are among 6,080 skilled workers holding a UK job offer who were denied visas to the UK since December 2017, according to a data released today, indicating that Indians are likely to be the hardest hit by the country’s annual visa cap. The Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE) acquired the figures via a Freedom of Information (FOI) to the UK home office to highlight the “scale of the problem” being created due to the British government’s annual immigration cap for skilled professionals hired by UK-based companies from outside the European Union (EU).…

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