29th February 2012 There are two ways to come to the UK as an Overseas Domestic Worker (ODW): • To work in the private household of an employer. This provision was introduced into the Immigration Rules in 2002 to enable people coming to the UK to bring with them their foreign domestic staff-for example nannies, [...]
Released on 29 February 2012 The REC’s specialist group on childcare has responded with disappointment to today’s Home Office decision to scrap the Domestic Worker Visa, against the recommendations of a coalition of businesses and human rights groups. The Domestic Worker Visa provided a critical lifeline for many domestic workers, offering protection for those trapped [...]
Julia Harris, Managing Director of the Manchester based company, The Childcare Recruitment Company, one of the largest suppliers of home based domestic staff in the UK, spoke on Monday 17th October 2011, at the House of Commons, for the launch of a pamphlet entitled “Service not Servitude: Protecting the Human Rights of Domestic Workers” written [...]
By Martin Delgado Mail on Sunday 16th October 2011. David and Samantha Cameron’s nanny is a Nepalese woman who was recruited from a charity which offers help and advice to immigrants seeking to escape abusive employers. Gita Lima has been working for the Prime Minister and his wife for several years and helped to care [...]
By Rebecca Evans and Sanjay Jha 21st October 2011 The Prime Minister’s Nepalese nanny was a virtual slave for the family of a foreign diplomat in London before being rescued by the Camerons, the Mail can reveal. Samantha Cameron recruited Gita Lama from a charity that helps abused domestic workers after she had fled the [...]
BBC News UK 4 September 2011 The proposals include limiting the maximum length of visas for overseas domestic workers to 12 months. Hundreds of migrant domestic workers have demonstrated outside Parliament against proposed changes to their UK visa conditions. Current rules allow them to change jobs and move to a different household without losing their [...]
REC Childcare brings the campaign to retain the Domestic Workers Visa to Parliament. Released on 17 October 2011 The REC today spoke at a Parliamentary event on the domestic workers visa, highlighting recruiters concerns about the proposals for it to be scrapped. The event, organised by Fiona McTaggart MP, looked at the implications of the [...]
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CONDITIONS OF APPLICATION This Consulate General no longer accepts visa appointment requests by post or in person. Applications for visas will be accepted only BY PREVIOUS APPOINTMENT. Please DO NOT BUY your travel tickets. Applicants must have RESIDENCE STATUS IN THE UK. The request for a visa must be lodged at the Spanish Consulate where [...]
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