Overseas medics are waiting seven times longer than they should for permits proving they have the right to be here, piling pressure on the creaking NHS.
The biometric residence cards are meant to be issued as soon as the right to remain in the UK is granted. But wait times have rocketed, leaving many unable to work or rent homes while the health service is close to being swamped by Covid.
Those from the EU also have to join the queue due to Brexit. Immigration minister Kevin Foster admitted to Plaid MP Hywel Williams targets for delivering cards had leapt from five working days to 35.
And there are fears it will spark a “brain drain”. Mr Williams warned: “Valued members of our community will be leaving due to Government incompetence,
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