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If you’re a frontline health worker, you may be eligible for a 1-year extension to your visa for free. If you’re eligible, your family members could also get an extension of up to 1 year. This is because of coronavirus (COVID-19). To get the extension, you must: have a visa that’s due to expire before 1 October 2020 work for the NHS or an independent healthcare provider in a...

The NMC has reached out to a group of overseas candidates to join the COVID-19, Temporary Register. This opportunity is sent out to candidates, who are currently in the UK, passed CBT, qualification, language, health and character checked by the NMC and have booked for the OSCE. How to join the Temporary Register? The candidate does not have to pay the registration fees and ...

The Government had previously announced a 1-year extension on visas due expire before October 2020, for international nurses, doctors and paramedics working in the NHS. In addition to this, Home Secretary Priti Patel, promised today to expand this offer to overseas midwives, radiographers, adult and children’s social care workers and pharmacists, who were not included in the...

Good News for International Nurses! If your 30-day visa to travel to the UK for work, study or to join family has expired or is about to expire, you can request a replacement visa with revised validity dates free of charge until the end of this year. To make a request, contact the Coronavirus Immigration Help Centre. You’ll need to include your name, nationality, date of bir...

The worst of the Covid-19 outbreak in the UK looks to be over, prime minister Boris Johnson announced today as he returned to work following his own recovery from the virus. Addressing the nation from outside No 10 this morning, Mr Johnson said measures taken to protect the NHS from being overburdened had so far succeeded. However, he stressed that it was too early to relax ...

All essential workers in England who are showing symptoms of coronavirus, as well as members of their households, will now be able to get tested, the government has announced. The move, revealed today during the daily government briefing, follows an expansion in testing capacity and comes on the back of criticism over numerous previous pledges on staff testing. Like the ongo...

This is advice for Tier 2, 4 and 5 visa sponsors in the UK who are sponsoring those affected by a coronavirus (COVID-19). If your student or employee is absent We will not take enforcement action against sponsors who continue to sponsor students or employees despite absences due to coronavirus. You do not need to report student or employee absences related to coronavirus. Th...

An MP has written to the government calling for all non-British nurses and other workers on the frontline of coronavirus to be granted citizenship without exams or fees. In a letter to the home secretary, Plaid Cymru MP Hywel Williams urged the government to consider granting immediate British citizenship to all key workers who had made an application, to “recognise the enor...

Nursing leaders have objected to new coronavirus guidance recommending the reuse of certain items of personal protective equipment (PPE) in the event of severe supply shortages. Public Health England (PHE) has told clinicians to consider reusing masks, gowns and visors marked single-use or seeking alternative kit when treating COVID-19 patients if stock runs dangerously low....

Commenting on the action plan issued today, Andrea Sutcliffe CBE, Chief Executive and Registrar at the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), said: “The Government’s measures announced today are welcome and the focus on better supporting the social care workforce is vital. “It is clear with the numbers of people using social care services being affected by Covid19 that social ...