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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Rachael Burford

Foreign worker visas crackdown 'under close review', says Number 10 with a week to go before new restrictions

A crackdown on foreign worker visas is “under close review”, Downing Street said on Monday, following fears that hundreds of new care providers have been granted licences by the Home Office to sponsor staff from abroad.

New laws that will restrict health workers from bringing family to the UK and require care providers to register with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) if they are sponsoring migrants come into force on March 11.

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