UK Visa

Emergency measures prevent mass deportations and stabilizes the United Kingdom prison system as staffing shortages threaten operations.

United Kingdom has issued emergency visa extensions to hundreds of foreign prison staff, most of whom are Nigerian, after warnings that staffing shortages threatened to destabilize the country’s prison system. The move comes following changes to UK visa rules earlier this year that raised the skilled worker visa salary threshold to £41,700 ($55,802), annually—well above the average starting salary for new prison officers outside London, which is around £33,000 ($44,120).

Under the temporary exemption, the visa extension applies only to officers already in …