{"id":85867,"date":"2026-03-03T17:26:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85867"},"modified":"2026-03-03T17:26:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:26:45","slug":"treat-us-fairly-skilled-workers-face-having-their-dream-of-settling-in-uk-snatched-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/03\/treat-us-fairly-skilled-workers-face-having-their-dream-of-settling-in-uk-snatched-away\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Treat us fairly\u2019: Skilled workers face having their dream of settling in UK snatched away"},"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\/AA1XqnRA.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6&amp;x=581&amp;y=283&amp;s=446&amp;d=446\" alt=\"Kushani Suraweera moved to the UK under the skilled worker pathway and was unable to attend her husband\u2019s funeral in Sri Lanka due to visa restrictions. Photograph: Mark Pinder\/The Guardian\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They came to the UK to build better lives for their families and to work and contribute to British society.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/treat-us-fairly-skilled-workers-face-having-their-dream-of-settling-in-uk-snatched-away\/ar-AA1XqA1W?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69a7140e302a4c20927421155c991c40&amp;ei=83\">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>They came to the UK to build better lives for their families and to work and contribute to British society.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85867","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\/2024\/05\/health-and-social-care.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85867","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=85867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85868,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85867\/revisions\/85868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}