Home Office unaware if foreign workers leave UK after visas end, MPs say

A committee between the deputies does not know whether foreign workers have left the UK or whether their visas have been expired after the expiry of their visas.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which examines government expenditures, said that he could not analyze the output controls of his home office, as a talented workers’ visa route was introduced under conservatives in 2020.

At the end of 2024 with the launch of December 2020, approximately 1.18 million people applied to England through this route.

The Ministry of Interior said it was working to modernize border security and increase digital controls earlier this year. The BBC approached the Ministry of Interior to comment on the report.

The talented visa route replaced the Tier 2 (general) working visa after leaving the European Union of England.

The route was expanded by the previous conservative government in 2022 to address health and social skills in health and social care after Covid Pandemi in 2022 and led the net migration to record levels.

However, PAC accused the Ministry of Interior of not being able to collect “basic information” about whether they left the UK after the expiry of their visas and showed “very little curiosity about how the route worked”.

The report said that the department was still leaving the country and relying on airline passenger records to check that these records have not been analyzed since 2020.

The Minister added that the home office should determine which measures to be recorded while people leave the country.

The report also accused the “slow and ineffective” to be “slow and ineffective” to deal with exploitation of the workers who were exposed to debt captivity, and exploitative conditions and exploitative conditions “and to deal with exploitation.

In May, Interior Minister Yette Cooper said that the government will end overseas recruitment for care workers As part of the registration net migration plans.

Dame Antonia Romeo, a permanent secretary of the house office, said Excessive processing is a “problem” that the department “corrected.