Visa extensions for foreign-born frontline NHS staff as Priti Patel praises ‘heroic’ efforts during Covid pandemic Home Secretary will instruct officials to grant automatic 12-month extensions to vital workers if their visa is due to run out by October Announcement is expected to benefit up to 14,000 essential workers including doctors, nurses and paramedics Scheme … Read more
MI6 is recruiting foreign-born spies for the first time in bid to increase diversity among its secret agents Recruits will no longer need to have been born in the UK to apply for roles at MI6 Whitehall source claimed diversification would make the agency ‘more effective’ However, any dual citizens may be asked to give up … Read more
Record 8,500 foreign-born criminals who should have been kicked out of UK are back on the streets and still awaiting deportation, official data shows Findings review fears the Home Office is failing to tackle the problem More than 2,400 offenders were waiting 60 months or more to be deported for their crimes Conservative MP Philip … Read more