Thousands of Migrants Gaming Britain’s “Ghastly” Worker Visa Route
18th March 2025
In the first 10 months of last year, more than 5,000 migrants arrived in Britain as ‘skilled workers,’ only later to claim asylum so as to remain in the country permanently. That’s about a 100-fold increase on the official 2022 figure of 53.
A new report by the National Audit Office says that the government “does not fully understand” what happens to those who come to Britain under this ‘skilled worker’ visa programme—the main route for workers to come to Britain, which Robert Bates, from the Centre for Migration Control, described as a “ghastly Frankenstein of a scheme.” There were more than half a million applications for skilled worker visas in 2023 alone.
And while the opposition Conservative Party said these figures were “deeply concerning,” Bates told europeanconservative.com that migrants have been able to game the skilled worker route thanks to the efforts of past and present “inattentive ministers in collaboration with free movement-loving civil servants.”
Gee, that sounds familiar….