Skilled migrants protest against UK visa policies

Group representing doctors, engineers and IT professionals seeks to raise profile of ‘discriminatory’ Home Office rules

Migrants in professional occupations will protest outside Downing Street on Tuesday to raise awareness of what they say are discriminatory, inhumane and hostile Home Office policies. The group, Highly Skilled Migrants, which says it represents over 600 doctors, engineers, IT professionals, teachers and their families in Britain, has raised over £25,000 to challenge the Home Office in the courts.

“Numerous members of our group are living in the worst of conditions thanks to the Home Office’s reckless, inhumane and unlawful policies,” said Aditi Bhardwaj, one of the protest organisers. “Most of them are fighting their cases in the courts. They have young children and with no right to work, they are living a miserable life. They are fighting a legal as well as social battle, fighting for their rights.”

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