{"id":93566,"date":"2026-08-30T06:23:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T06:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=93566"},"modified":"2026-08-30T06:23:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T06:23:45","slug":"how-chicken-shops-and-nail-bars-milked-britains-skilled-visa-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/how-chicken-shops-and-nail-bars-milked-britains-skilled-visa-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"How chicken shops and nail bars milked Britain\u2019s skilled visa scheme"},"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\"> < 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\/AA2bcczU.img?w=768&h=576&m=6\" alt=\"Britain\u2019s \u2018skilled visa\u2019 loophole\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brimming with green grocers, traditional Asian wedding shops and jewellers, it doesn\u2019t take long on Stratford Road in Birmingham to find new arrivals who have made Britain their home. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/economy\/how-chicken-shops-and-nail-bars-milked-britain-s-skilled-visa-scheme\/ar-AA2bcfrg?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=cd2742ce80f344c6d473abf75feb5878&ei=32\">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>Brimming with green grocers, traditional Asian wedding shops and jewellers, it doesn\u2019t take long on Stratford Road in Birmingham to find new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-immigration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/UK-skilled-visa.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93566","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=93566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93567,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93566\/revisions\/93567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}