Something I see in my practise often as well. People who migrated even decades ago and have a flourishing career earning good salaries or having their own company see parents abroad get old and frail and sole survivors of their generations. Like the British government the Dutch also refuse them a residence permit forcing people to choose between parents and a career and family and friends here.

"Labour MP Stephen Timms, chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Immigration Law and Policy, has secured a debate in Westminster Hall today which he hopes “sheds light” on a policy he said is damaging the NHS.

Mr Timms told i: “Nine years ago, the Government changed the immigration rules, making it extremely difficult for overseas nationals working in the UK to bring their parents here when they need to care for them. "

 

‘I quit my job as a senior NHS doctor in Nottinghamshire after my mother was forced to leave the country’

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MPs will debate the exodus of overseas-born medics leaving the NHS for countries with ‘fairer’ approach to bringing parents

Dr Asim Qureshi said he was left with no choice but to leave the NHS after being unable to obtain a permanent visa for his elderly mother, Masooda Daud, to come and live with him in the UK (Photo: Asim Qureshi)

By Paul Gallagher

Health Correspondent

November 3, 2021 6:00 am

A senior consultant has quit his position in the NHS and moved to work at a hospital abroad blaming tough immigration rules for being unable to bring his elderly mother to live with him in the UK.

Dr Asim Qureshi arrived in England with his extended family in January 2019 and began work as a histopathologist at Kings Mill Hospital in Sutton-in-Ashfield.

He said he was shocked to find that although his wife and two daughters were able to join him, his mother was only given a six-month visa despite having lived with the family for the previous 10 years.

Read the whole article here:  https://inews.co.uk/news/health/nhs-immigrations-pakistan-elderly-dependents-1280349

 

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