Conference hears how bad employers are exploiting migrant workers
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Ministers have to understand there are consequences to demonising migrant workers, who may choose not to come to the UK
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The cost of the Immigration Health Surcharge – a double tax migrant workers have to pay to access healthcare – is set to increase to over £1,000 a year for each person
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If you are an EU, EEA or Swiss citizen living and working in the UK, you need to make sure you have applied for settled status before 30 June
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Despite massive NHS staff shortages, healthcare workers have been forced to return to their home countries during the pandemic
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Dedication to the NHS has made no difference to a surgical assistant seeking to renew her visa
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Migrant key workers are on the pandemic frontline but their fight to remain in the country is harder than ever