UK Extends Visa for Health Workers, Relaxes Rules for Over Stayers, Entrepreneurs

A doctor wearing protective equipment is seen unloading a patient outside St Thomas' Hospital, in London, on April 7, 2020. Peter Summers/Getty Images

It is estimated that 6,000 foreign health workers will be able to extend their stay in the UK by a year, the government said on Friday.

Vital health professionals and their family dependants whose visas are due to expire between Oct. 1, 2020 and March 31, 2021 can have their visas automatically extended for a year for free, the Home Office and the Department of Health and Social Care announced.