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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

Hundreds of prison officers may have to leave UK after Labour’s visa rule change

A prison officer walks up some stairs in a prison.
People from overseas account for 80% of applicants for prison officer jobs, according to the president of the Prison Governors’ Association. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Hundreds of foreign prison officers will lose their jobs and could be forced to return to their home countries at short notice because of a change in visa rules introduced by Labour, governors and a union have warned.

More than 1,000 staff, mainly from African countries, have been sponsored by prisons across England and Wales allowing them to come to the UK on skilled worker visas.

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