Category: ONP Nurses

Visas, Immigration & Nationality

Health Workers

Immigrant Health Workers in the UK

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)  has found that Britain relies more heavily on foreign health workers than any other major EU nation. Its International Migration Outlook 2015 revealed that more than a third of NHS doctors – 35.4 per cent – were born overseas, compared with just 5 per cent in Italy, 10.7…
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Why Skilled nurses could be forced to leave UK under migrant salary rules?

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) union has warned that up to 3,365 foreign nurses could be forced to return home in 2017 under changes to immigration rules. People from outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) will have to leave the UK after six years if they are not earning at least £35,000 (the…
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UK Nursing Visas – Are you a qualified nurse?

Want to Get into UK Nursing? Registered nurses who qualified abroad can come and work in the UK. You will need to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) first before you can be employed in the UK as a nurse. Trained Outside the European Union/European Economic Area If you were trained outside the…
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Immigration Health Surcharge

On 25 February 2015, the Secretary of State issued a statement of changes in Immigration Rules, which highlighted number of changes, most of which came into force on 06 April 2015. The Immigration Health Surcharge ensures that temporary, non-EEA migrants coming to the UK for more than six months contribute to the NHS in line…
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More than 100,000 jobs await in Qatar for Filipinos

Good news: More than 100,000 jobs await in Qatar for Filipinos. Between country choices for Filipinos to immigrate such as UK, Canada and Australia,  Qatar is now as well an opportunity. More than 100,000 jobs are waiting for Filipinos in Qatar in addition to job openings for nurses in the United Kingdom. So far, iam…
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