“Migrant workers 'in limbo' over employer licence crackdown”

Jamil, a migrant worker from Bangladesh, says he has been left stranded and in limbo after being exploited and then abandoned by a company who recruited him to help fulfil the UK's shortage of care workers.

Following a crackdown from the government, the company he had been working for lost its licence to employ foreign workers.

Now the 30-year-old does not know what to do.

He's not alone - figures obtained to the BBC under the Freedom of Information Act show the number of times a company had its sponsor licence revoked in the UK rose from 336 in 2023 to 1,514 in 2024 - a rise of 350%. Over a third were in London.

The effect has meant migrant workers have been "pushed into destitution", the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants told the BBC, adding that it had seen a huge increase in people seeking their services…

Jamil - not his real name - was approached by the company, which the BBC is not naming, after he completed a business masters degree in the UK…

More than 39,000 workers, external in the care sector have been affected by sponsorship licences being revoked since October 2020…