Behind every visa application is a person with hopes, dreams, and a desire to make a difference.

Join us as we shed light on the stories of Care workers Silenced by the UK visa system in our upcoming Twitter Space.

🗣️ “When the dust settles on this and we look back, this will be a crisis, in terms of the human damage that it’s done, on the par with Windrush and on the par with the Post Office Horizon scandal” – Emiliano Mellino

I was recently on TRASHFUTURE PODCAST talking about our investigation into the health & care visa, & why I think this is a crisis of equal magnitude to Windrush or Post Office/Horizon.

Thanks again to Riley November & H.K for having me on & being great hosts.

Can't lie - it's a tough time to produce the sort of journalism The Bureau of Investigative Journalism does. Good news has felt in short supply. So I'm genuinely thrilled to have some, and to be helping the brilliant Hannah Summers shine light on family courts for the next two years thebureauinvestigates.com/blog/2024-03-2…

A The Bureau of Investigative Journalism & CitizensAdvice investigation shines a light on how migrant care workers in the UK are being trapped in exploitative jobs by their visa, unable to report employers without putting their visas at risk. buff.ly/4cbVuIc

By Emiliano Mellino, Vicky Gayle, Charles Boutaud, hajar meddah

If you are an editor or a reporter and want to publish some or all of our findings, please get in touch.

Our investigation into the ways the health and care visa punishes whistleblowers, and creates conditions for widespread exploitation has been covered by newspapers in Zimbabwe, Nigeria, and South Africa.

This is a sign of how important this story is for people outside the UK.

Read Emiliano Mellino, Vicky Gayle is on leave and off X & The Bureau of Investigative Journalism / The Bureau Local’s extraordinary investigative work revealing how UK visa regulations, immigration & employment law, the absence of whistleblowing powers & horrifying abuse by home care mngmt are hyperexploiting migrant workers in the ‘care’ sector.

Evidence has been mounting that carers who come to the UK on the health & care visa are being subjected to exploitation & fraud.

We can now reveal this is in large part due to a visa design that punishes workers for whistleblowing🧵

CW:references to rape
thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024-0…

In a significant development in the ongoing fallout from Thurrock's investment scandal, the council has sued the businessman behind its disastrous solar farm deals ⬇️

🚨Today we’re launching Trans+ Voices – a community-led investigation working directly with trans and non-binary communities

The project will look into the experiences of these communities in the build up to the next UK election

thebureauinvestigates.com/blog/2024-03-0…