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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Au Pairs: EU Nationals (3 March 2021)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what explicit provision she plans to make in the UK visa system to allow young people to come to the UK from the EU to work as an au pair.

Asked by:
Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat)

Answer

As has been the case since 2008, the UK’s points-based immigration system does not include a dedicated visa route for au pairs. We will not introduce one for similar reasons to why successive governments deciding not to reintroduce a route for non-EEA nationals.

Those who have general rights to work in the UK, such as those who arrive under our Youth Mobility Schemes (YMS), as dependants of those settled in the UK or those who have settled status, would be able to undertake such roles.

We remain committed to operating and expanding our YMS, yet each YMS is based on a reciprocal arrangement with another country to reflect them delivering an element of exchange, they are not a one-way route for recruiting overseas.


Answered by:
Kevin Foster (Conservative)
8 March 2021

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