{"id":51419,"date":"2023-10-20T20:11:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T20:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=51419"},"modified":"2023-10-20T20:11:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T20:11:22","slug":"people-left-destitute-after-coming-to-the-uk-on-skilled-worker-visas-only-to-find-theres-no-job-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/10\/20\/people-left-destitute-after-coming-to-the-uk-on-skilled-worker-visas-only-to-find-theres-no-job-2\/","title":{"rendered":"People left destitute after coming to the UK on skilled worker visas only to find there&#8217;s no job"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51420\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/skilled-worker-visas-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/skilled-worker-visas-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/skilled-worker-visas-770x433.jpeg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/skilled-worker-visas-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/skilled-worker-visas-360x203.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/skilled-worker-visas.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One woman from Nigeria tells Sky News she paid \u00a310,000 to an &#8220;agent&#8221; for a skilled worker visa on the promise of work in the UK &#8211; only to find out the job did not exist.<a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/theres-a-big-scam-going-on-how-people-are-paying-thousands-for-skilled-worker-visas-for-jobs-that-dont-exist-12945498\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>One woman from Nigeria tells Sky News she paid \u00a310,000 to an &#8220;agent&#8221; for a skilled worker visa on the promise of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-and-social-care"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/skilled-worker-visas.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51421,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51419\/revisions\/51421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}