One-year visa for Indian chefs |
Indian restaurant owners across Britain have prepared a 75-page document asking the UK government to introduce one-year visas so they can bring in chefs from the Indian sub-continent to keep their businesses going.The document has been submitted to British Prime Minister David Cameron, UK home secretary Theresa May and employment minister Priti Patel. They propose a tightly-controlled, temporary work visa scheme where expert chefs from outside the European Union (EU) are allowed to enter the UK on very strict employment terms. These terms would limit their employment to a maximum of one year with no right of return, no chance of residency or out-of-work benefits. They urge the government to help their industry and they strongly recommend that the immigration laws covering bringing in chefs from abroad be made, even on a temporary basis, more adequately flexible.There are fears that unless the government makes an exception for chefs trained in Indian style cooking, up to a third of the estimated 12,000 curry restaurants and takeaways in Britain may have to close.
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