A Bangladeshi man who claimed he was coming to Britain as a care worker ended up serving curry in an Indian restaurant.
Ijaj Abid Redwan Hridoy, 26, arrived here in 2023 on a health care visa but Home Office immigration enforcement officers found him working at the Junoon Indian restaurant in the village of Helsby in Cheshire.
He was living in a caravan nearby.
Mr Hridoy had his visa revoked but later took the Home Office to court to judicially review the decision – and lost.
The case is a stark example of the abuse that has gripped the health and care worker visa scheme.
MPs have repeatedly raised concerns that the visa was widely taken advantage of by foreign nationals who had no intention of gaining employment as care workers, and who simply wanted to gain permission to enter Britain.
More than 760,000 foreign nationals, including dependants, have applied for health and care worker visas since the route was created in 2020.
Since July, care workers can no longer be recruited from overseas following changes to the Home Office’s rules.