2023๋
10์ 29์ผ
Overseas students and workers targeted in illicit UK visa trade
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๋ณด๊ณ ๋ ๋ ์ง: 2023๋ 11์ 29์ผ
์์น: ํํค์คํ
๊ธฐ์ ํ์ด์ง
Telegram - Other Value Chain Entity , VFS Global - Other Value Chain Entity , Meta (formerly Facebook) - Other Value Chain Entity์ํฅ๋ฐ์
์ํฅ๋ฐ์ ์ฌ๋์ ์: ์ซ์๋ฅผ ์ ์ ์์
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( ์ซ์๋ฅผ ์ ์ ์์ - ํํค์คํ - ์ ์ ์๋ ์ ์ข , ์ฑ๋ณ ์ ๋ณด ๋ฏธ์ ๊ณต , Unknown migration status ) , Migrant & immigrant workers: ( ์ซ์๋ฅผ ์ ์ ์์ - ์ํ๊ฐ๋์คํ - ์ ์ ์๋ ์ ์ข , Men , Unknown migration status )ํ ํฝ๋ค
์ง์ ์๊ฐ์์๋ฃ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ
์๋ต ์์ฒญ: ์, Journalist; Resource Centre์ ์ํด ์์ฒญ๋จ
์๋ต์ ํฌํจํ๋ ์คํ ๋ฆฌ: (๋ ์์๋ณด๊ธฐ)
์๋ต์ ๋ณผ ์ ์๋ ์ธ๋ถ ๋งํฌ: (๋ ์์๋ณด๊ธฐ)
์ํ๋ ์กฐ์น: The Business and Human Rights Resource Centre invited Telegram and Meta to respond to the article, and to outline how they monitor and remove brokersโ advertisements that charge migrant workers and students high fees for UK visa appointments. Telegram did not respond to the Resource Centreโs request for comment. Metaโs response can be read in full below.
์ถ์ฒ: News outlet
์์ฝ
๋ณด๊ณ ๋ ๋ ์ง: 2023๋ 11์ 29์ผ
์์น: ๋ฐฉ๊ธ๋ผ๋ฐ์
๊ธฐ์ ํ์ด์ง
VFS Global - Other Value Chain Entity , Telegram - Other Value Chain Entity , Meta (formerly Facebook) - Other Value Chain Entity์ํฅ๋ฐ์
์ํฅ๋ฐ์ ์ฌ๋์ ์: ์ซ์๋ฅผ ์ ์ ์์
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( ์ซ์๋ฅผ ์ ์ ์์ - ๋ฐฉ๊ธ๋ผ๋ฐ์ - ์ ์ ์๋ ์ ์ข , ์ฑ๋ณ ์ ๋ณด ๋ฏธ์ ๊ณต , Unknown migration status )ํ ํฝ๋ค
์ง์ ์๊ฐ์์๋ฃ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ
์๋ต ์์ฒญ: ์, Journalist; Resource Centre์ ์ํด ์์ฒญ๋จ
์๋ต์ ํฌํจํ๋ ์คํ ๋ฆฌ: (๋ ์์๋ณด๊ธฐ)
์๋ต์ ๋ณผ ์ ์๋ ์ธ๋ถ ๋งํฌ: (๋ ์์๋ณด๊ธฐ)
์ํ๋ ์กฐ์น: The Business and Human Rights Resource Centre invited Telegram and Meta to respond to the article, and to outline how they monitor and remove brokersโ advertisements that charge migrant workers and students high fees for UK visa appointments. Telegram did not respond to the Resource Centreโs request for comment. Metaโs response can be read in full below.
์ถ์ฒ: News outlet
์์ฝ
๋ณด๊ณ ๋ ๋ ์ง: 2023๋ 11์ 29์ผ
์์น: ๋คํ
๊ธฐ์ ํ์ด์ง
VFS Global - Other Value Chain Entity , Telegram - Other Value Chain Entity , Meta (formerly Facebook) - Other Value Chain Entity์ํฅ๋ฐ์
์ํฅ๋ฐ์ ์ฌ๋์ ์: ์ซ์๋ฅผ ์ ์ ์์
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( ์ซ์๋ฅผ ์ ์ ์์ - ๋คํ - ์ ์ ์๋ ์ ์ข , ์ฑ๋ณ ์ ๋ณด ๋ฏธ์ ๊ณต , Unknown migration status )ํ ํฝ๋ค
์ง์ ์๊ฐ์์๋ฃ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ
์๋ต ์์ฒญ: ์, Journalist; Resource Centre์ ์ํด ์์ฒญ๋จ
์๋ต์ ํฌํจํ๋ ์คํ ๋ฆฌ: (๋ ์์๋ณด๊ธฐ)
์๋ต์ ๋ณผ ์ ์๋ ์ธ๋ถ ๋งํฌ: (๋ ์์๋ณด๊ธฐ)
์ํ๋ ์กฐ์น: The Business and Human Rights Resource Centre invited Telegram and Meta to respond to the article, and to outline how they monitor and remove brokersโ advertisements that charge migrant workers and students high fees for UK visa appointments. Telegram did not respond to the Resource Centreโs request for comment. Metaโs response can be read in full below.
์ถ์ฒ: News outlet
์์ฝ
๋ณด๊ณ ๋ ๋ ์ง: 2023๋ 11์ 29์ผ
์์น: ์ธ๋
๊ธฐ์ ํ์ด์ง
Telegram - Other Value Chain Entity , VFS Global - Other Value Chain Entity , Meta (formerly Facebook) - Other Value Chain Entity์ํฅ๋ฐ์
์ํฅ๋ฐ์ ์ฌ๋์ ์: ์ซ์๋ฅผ ์ ์ ์์
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( ์ซ์๋ฅผ ์ ์ ์์ - ์ธ๋ - ์ ์ ์๋ ์ ์ข , ์ฑ๋ณ ์ ๋ณด ๋ฏธ์ ๊ณต , Unknown migration status )ํ ํฝ๋ค
์ง์ ์๊ฐ์์๋ฃ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ
์๋ต ์์ฒญ: ์, Journalist; Resource Centre์ ์ํด ์์ฒญ๋จ
์๋ต์ ํฌํจํ๋ ์คํ ๋ฆฌ: (๋ ์์๋ณด๊ธฐ)
์๋ต์ ๋ณผ ์ ์๋ ์ธ๋ถ ๋งํฌ: (๋ ์์๋ณด๊ธฐ)
์ํ๋ ์กฐ์น: The Business and Human Rights Resource Centre invited Telegram and Meta to respond to the article, and to outline how they monitor and remove brokersโ advertisements that charge migrant workers and students high fees for UK visa appointments. Telegram did not respond to the Resource Centreโs request for comment. Metaโs response can be read in full below.
์ถ์ฒ: News outlet
UK visa appointments are being booked up by brokers and sold on for hundreds of pounds in an illicit trade targeting overseas workers and students.
โฆ brokers in some parts of south Asia charging up to ยฃ800 for the biometric appointments, which are widely advertised on Facebook and the Telegram messaging serviceโฆ
The underground market is thriving as agents exploit pressure on some consular services overseas, driven in part by increased visa applications from international students and healthcare workersโฆ
But while direct booking of biometric appointments is typically free or between ยฃ30 and ยฃ85 for priority services, some people in south Asia are facing difficulties securing slots via VFS Global, the outsourcing company contracted by the Home Office to handle UK visa applications in the regionโฆ
โWe take all attempts to misuse the visa application appointment system exceptionally seriously. We have not experienced this type or scale of abuse in any other UKVI [UK visas and immigration] locations and have been working closely with the UK Home Office to combat this abuse,โ a VFS Global spokesperson saidโฆ
One applicant described finding a free appointment on VFS Globalโs system as a lotteryโ and said that they had to check the website at various times during the nightโฆ