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Indians Among Nearly 1,000 Professionals Facing Deportation Get UK Visa Reprieve
The issue has affected a large number of Indian professionals, such as solicitors, doctors, chemists and teachers, who demonstrated outside parliament several times since January. Some of them even initiated legal action.
Nearly 1,000 professionals from India and elsewhere got a reprieve when the UK government agreed on Tuesday to review their applications for indefinite stay, which were earlier refused using a rule meant for terrorists and criminals.
The government also put on hold any deportations. The decision to review and put on hold applications that would have been turned down was communicated by home secretary Sajid Javid to Yvette Cooper, chair of the home affairs committee of Parliament, sending a wave of relief among many.