The UK government will scrap the care worker visa route in the coming months as part of a major effort to cut migration, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced Sunday.
The move, detailed in a white paper to be published Monday, is part of broader restrictions on employers using visas to fill lower-skilled roles.
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Cooper said the decision marks the end of a “failed free market experiment” that allowed widespread overseas recruitment.
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She told the BBC the changes would cut annual arrivals by around 50,000, though she declined to set a specific target for net migration.
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