Confusion about whether EU citizens can explore the UK job market and then go home with an offer in order to apply for a work visa has added to the growing number of detentions. In other cases, visitors are clearly breaking rules, such as those now barring EU citizens from taking up unpaid internships. Other countries whose citizens have been held at a UK airport or detention centre include Italy, France, Bulgaria and Greece. “The worst thing was that no one at Yarl’s Wood could tell me what was going to happen. María only learned about the Yarl’s Wood Covid scare from her sister, who was barred from visiting because of it.

Source: The Guardian May 13, 2021 11:02 UTC