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Kebab shops, vape stores and even car washes are being allowed to sponsor overseas workers under Britain's visa system
A total of 159 kebab shops across Britain have been granted Home Office licences allowing them to sponsor overseas workers under the skilled worker visa scheme.
The licences enable businesses to recruit workers from abroad, with sponsored employees often able to bring family members with them to the UK.
The figures have sparked criticism from senior Conservatives and migration campaigners, who argue the system is being stretched far beyond its original purpose.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp described the arrangements as "a disgrace".
"Many sponsored workers won't be highly skilled," he said.
Conservative MP Neil O'Brien also criticised the scheme, branding it "absurd" and warning that "a lot of 'work' is fake-visa milling".
The Centre for Migration Control said the figures suggested the sponsorship system was "out of control".
Under current rules, skilled worker visas generally require applicants to earn at least £41,700 a year or meet the occupation's designated salary threshold.
Home Office records show that 56 kebab shops used their sponsorship licences to recruit overseas workers between 2021 and 2023.
One business, Baba Kebabish in East Ham, was allocated seven visas during that period for roles classified under accommodation and food service activities.
There is no suggestion the business has committed any wrongdoing or has any connection to visa fraud. --->READ MORE HERE
If you’re hitting yourself on the head with a hammer, why not do it some more?
The United Kingdom, like the U.S. and other Western countries, issues visas to those workers who have special skills deemed vital to the national economy. But it turns out that in the U.K., the Home Office has a most peculiar and expansive definition of the categories of people eligible for such visas. More on the latest travesty can be found here.
A total of 159 kebab shops across Britain have been granted Home Office licenses allowing them to sponsor overseas workers under the skilled worker visa scheme.
The licenses enable businesses to recruit workers from abroad, with sponsored employees often able to bring family members with them to the UK….
Are we expected to believe that there are not enough kebab shop workers in the UK itself, and that they need to be recruited from abroad? This is, obviously, a preposterous scheme to bring in still more menial workers from Muslim lands where kebab shops are omnipresent.
Undoubtedly those lucky kebab shop owners and current employees will be able to bring extended family members to the UK. And Muslim families are very big: each kebab shop owner or current employee could potentially bring in dozens of family members as part of “family reunification.”
Under current rules, skilled worker visas generally require applicants to earn at least £41,700 [$56.000] a year or meet the occupation’s designated salary threshold.
No kebab shop employee, and no car washer, is likely to be paid at least 41,700 pounds [$56,000 USD]. Of course, there is plenty of room for fraud, with employers overstating the amounts they would be paying those menial workers who apply for “skilled worker visas.” --->READ MORE HERE
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