Migrant Workers: Visas
(asked on 9th December 2020) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to extend the visas of health and care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
The Government recognises the vital contribution overseas NHS, health and social care workers have and continue to make in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
Earlier in the year we offered free visa extensions for key, frontline health professionals whose visas were due to expire between 31 March 2020 and 1 October 2020.
On 20 November, we announced we will renew this offer for those eligible health professionals and their family dependants whose visas expire between 1 October 2020 until 31 March 2021.
More details of this announcement can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/thousands-more-health-workers-to-benefit-from-visa-extensions