{"id":83321,"date":"2026-01-10T09:40:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T09:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83321"},"modified":"2026-01-10T09:40:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T09:40:30","slug":"visa-applications-down-by-over-100000-amid-strict-immigration-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/10\/visa-applications-down-by-over-100000-amid-strict-immigration-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Visa applications down by over 100,000 amid strict immigration rules"},"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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1N3oxW.img?w=534&amp;h=318&amp;m=6\" alt=\"There were 61,000 people who applied for a care worker visa in 2025 - a drop of 51% on the previous year - PA Archive\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">UK<\/a>\u00a0visa applications from foreign skilled workers and health staff dropped significantly last year after stricter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">immigration<\/a> controls were enforced, new data has revealed.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/visa-applications-down-by-over-100-000-amid-strict-immigration-rules\/ar-AA1TPENd?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69621c712b544cc89d31c7a06fb579e4&amp;ei=21\"> 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>UK\u00a0visa applications from foreign skilled workers and health staff dropped significantly last year after stricter\u00a0immigration controls were enforced, new data has revealed&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/UK-Visa.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83321","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=83321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83322,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83321\/revisions\/83322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}