Media Stories
27/06/2022
Media Stories
Since its start, our campaign to end extortionate visa fees has received coverage in the media throughout the years. Local and national news outlets have covered a variety of aspects of our campaign, from individual stories that have led to policy change (such as scrapping the Immigration Health Surcharge for NHS workers) to news and interviews on our campaign and the findings of our report.
Check the links below to read the stories:
2022
- Money, time and more: The pain that visas bring to migrants in the UK | Her-itage | May
- Hardship caused by the Home Office's costly and dilatory visa regime | The Guardian (Letters) | May
- Sheffield's Migration Matters Festival celebrates migrants in the face of anti-immigration bills | Sheffield Wire | May
- Mum campaigns against 'extortionate' visa fees after 34 year long immigration battle with Home Office | Birmingham Live | May
2021
2020
- Reduce 'discriminatory' visa fees (blog) | Politics | December
- Calls to scrap 'unfair' NHS surcharge for all migrant workers | The Guardian | May
- NHS surcharge: No migrant should face this double taxation (op-ed) | Politics | May
- Syrian hospital worker thanks public for 'restoring his faith' after NHS surcharge scrapped by Borish Johnson | Press Association | May
- UK government to scrap healthcare surcharge for foreign NHS and care workers after U-turn | Euronews | May
- NHS fees for migrant health workers scrapped in government U-turn | Channel 4 News | May
- 'We feel insulted': migrant health workers on PM's refusal to scrap NHS surcharge | The Guardian | May
- Coronavirus: Home Office urged to grant automatic visa extensions to care workers as well as NHS staff | The Independent | April