Visa crackdown leads to big falls in foreign health and care workers and students coming to UK
by Nicholas Cecil
Aug 09, 2024
3 minutes
A visa crackdown has led to a dramatic fall in the number of foreign health and social care workers and students applying to come to Britain.
Official figures showed tens of thousands fewer applications for visas for these categories.
The decline puts the Government on track with its pledge to cut levels of immigration to the UK.
But it also raised concerns over possible worse staff shortages in care homes and parts of the NHS and of fresh blows to
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