MINISTERS have no idea how many migrants overstay their visas and work illegally, say worried MPs.
Home Office staff fail to check exit data under the skilled worker visa scheme, they claim.
A damning report by Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee found ministers have not even checked exit data since the skilled worker visa scheme was launched in 2020.
More than 1.18 million people have come to Britain on the visas, including thousands to fill care home jobs.
But MPs claim officials do not know “what proportion of people return to their home country after their visa has expired, and how many may be working illegally in the United Kingdom.”
The PAC also revealed “widespread evidence of workers suffering debt bondage, working excessive hours and exploitative conditions”, with little action taken to fix it.
Committee chairman Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP blasted: “There has long been mounting evidence of serious issues with the system, laid bare once again in our inquiry.
“And yet basic information, such as how many people on skilled worker visas have been modern slavery victims, and whether people leave the UK after their visas expire, seems to still not have been gathered by Government.”
It comes an investigation by The Sun uncovered the shameless criminality of asylum seekers earning cash from takeaway drop-offs while living on taxpayer handouts.
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