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India demands more visas for nurses and care workers as price for free trade deal
(www.telegraph.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2023
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Why does India want this? Surely skilled workers leaving India for the UK is bad for India - far from being a price for the UK, this would enormously benefit the UK. The UK will be getting skilled workers whose education is mostly at India's expense.
Getting visas are easy but citizenship is hard and when you think about the workers family it's really rare that they leave but instead they bring remittance to india
I think if might be about fairness.... probably still a sore point for India, especially with Britian.
Also, skilled workers may not always stay, and bring back what they learnt. Also, many send money home to relatives. We get another supply of skilled workers. It's win win.
But we know why Brexiteers don't want this....
I came here with the same question