Government announces frontline staff visa extensions
29 April 2020
Free visa extensions will be automatically granted to more crucial overseas health and care workers.
Free visa extensions will be automatically granted to more crucial overseas health and care workers, the Home Secretary has announced today.
Frontline workers, including midwives, radiographers, social workers and pharmacists, with visas due to expire before 1 October 2020 will receive an automatic one-year extension. It will apply to those working both in the NHS and independent sector and include their family members.
This builds on the Home Secretary’s announcement last month for NHS doctors, nurses and paramedics. All will be exempt for the Immigration Health Surcharge for the duration of the exemption.
In total approximately 3,000 vital health and care workers and their families will benefit from the extension.