Work Permit Renewal Success For Senior Carers

Senior Carer Work Permit renewals are finally being granted by the Border and Immigration Agency (BIA) after months of campaigning.

Immigration Advisers and Overseas Recruitment Specialists Bison UK has reported a number of successful Work Permit Approvals this week, some of which were issued after being with the BIA for five months.

Recruitment Manager Cynthia [...]

Senior Carer Work Permits Special Meeting

If you have been affected or concerned about this issue, there will be a special meeting on:

25 August 2007, 2-5 pm

St. John’s Nottinghill, Lansdowne Crescent, London W11 2NN

I will be speaking at the meeting organised by the Alliance of Filipino Organisations*

There will be advisers present to discuss your case including [...]

Employers Refuse To Pay Higher Salaries To Senior Carers To Extend Work Permits

Migrant care workers’ hopes of being spared from deportation are being dashed by their employer’s reluctance to swallow the bitter pill of higher pay, as prescribed by the Border and Immigration Agency (BIA)
Earlier this week, Immigration Matters reported that the UK Government had backed down by granting a concession to in-country Senior Carers or allowing [...]

Migrant Worker Talks to Immigration Matters on UK Government Ruling

Migrant worker Gina talks to Bison UK about how she felt when the UK Border and Immigration Agency announced new guidelines on Senior Carer Work Permits.

Border and Immigration Agency Announcement – Bulgarian and Romanian Workers

In a document entitled: “Controlled Access To UK Labour Market For Romanians and Bulgarians”, the Government is inviting contributions aimed at gathering evidence related to the restrictions placed on Romanian and Bulgarian migrant workers since January 2007.
When Romania and Bulgaria, the so called “A2″ countries joined the European Union in January of this year, the [...]

Home Office Backs Down On Deportations – Victory For Senior Care Workers

The Home Office has finally announced new guidelines on Senior Carer Work Permits, signalling a dramatic turn around of events.
The announcement, published on the Working in the UK website today, came after months of speculation and worry for the estimated 25,000 Senior Carers working in the UK Care Industry.

Pressure had been mounting on the Government [...]

Senior Carers to be given reprieve

The Government will shortly make a dramatic announcement on the future of the estimated 25,000 Senior Carers working in the UK Care Industry, according to an article in the ‘Philippine Inquirer’ yesterday.

Several industry sources have revealed that the Border and Immigration Agency (BIA) is about to reverse it’s decision to refuse all Work Permit [...]

UNISON Appeals for Urgent Action over Care Worker Deportations

Unison is calling on the Government to take “urgent action to stop the wholesale deportation of much needed, highly skilled senior care workers”.
UNISON, the UK ’s largest public sector union, is also considering a legal challenge on the issue of unfair Work Permit refusals for Senior Carers already in the UK
The union is making representations [...]

English Community Care Association Press Release

ECCA
PRESS RELEASE
10 August 2007
SENIOR CARER WORK PERMITS
The English Community Care Association (ECCA), the leading representative body for independent care homes, has met with the National Care Association and the Registered Nursing Homes Association.

The three associations said:

“We, as members of the Work Permits Healthcare Sector Panel, are extremely concerned that the Panel has been sidestepped in [...]

Rule Change Unfair to Skilled Migrant Workers says Parliamentary Report

Thousands of skilled migrants will face deportation from the UK following the Government’s unlawfull and unfair change to the rules allowing them into the country, a parliamentary committee says.
The committee lambasts the Home Office for applying new rules retrospectively against thousands of the “bright and the best” encouraged to come to Britain to boost [...]