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The UK Home Office announced that on 17 May 2021 the COVID-19 right-to-work concession allowing employers to conduct right-to-work checks by video call will end.
RIGHT-TO-WORK CHECKS FROM 30 MARCH 2020 THROUGH 16 MAY 2021
In March 2020 the UK Home Office published
temporary measuresallowing employers to conduct right-to-work checks by video call from 30 March 2020. Until 16 May 2021, employers may continue to use this adjusted process, which involves an employee submitting a scanned copy or photo of their original documents to their employer via email or mobile app. The employer then conducts a video call with the employee, during which the employee holds up the original documents to the camera and the employer checks them against the digital copy of the documents. The employer must record the date of the check and mark it as “adjusted check undertaken on [insert date] due to COVID-19.” Employers may continue to us
medConfidential spots tiny yet staggering online blunder
Gareth Corfield Mon 1 Feb 2021 // 09:30 UTC Share
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Exclusive A single missing web link on GOV.UK has cost the taxpayer £51m over the past five years because civil servants are being forced to handle paper forms posted to the Home Office.
Research by privacy campaign group medConfidential reckons the government has wasted about £10m per year since late 2015 thanks to the omission of a crucial web link from a GOV.UK page about Biometric Residence Permits (BRPs).
Phil Booth of medConfidential told
The Register: While the Home Office generates a profit from fees for migrants, it is required to provide some services for free – such as making a change of registered home address when someone moves house.
Continued UK immigration delays affecting migrants doctors are keeping them off the frontline in the fight against COVID-19. With the NHS crumbling under the strain of rising coronavirus cases, and with tens of thousands of doctors and nurses off sick having been infected, qualified foreign doctors continue to remain sidelined due to immigration delays.
For the first time since April 2020, daily coronavirus deaths recently hit four figures. The NHS staffing crisis is so severe that healthcare bosses are now pleading with doctors and nurses to work additional shifts.
Amid the staffing crisis, qualified health workers – desperate to be on the frontline - are currently housebound because of UK immigration delays.