We suffer in silence, says South Yorkshire migrant care worker

21 hours agoStephanie Miskin & Louise FewsterBBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire InvestigationsStephanie Miskin/BBCA migrant social care worker has said her employer threatened to cancel her visa if she complained about being forced to work long hours without any days off.Sophia - not her real name - said she paid more than £2,000 in fees to a South Yorkshire care company that sponsored her visa to come to the UK from Zimbabwe to work for them in 2023.The Home Office has cracked down on abuse and exploitation by some care companies by revoking their licences, leaving many workers without a job. Leeds City Council, which oversees a Yorkshire-wide project to find new jobs for unemployed overseas workers, said there had been "challenges" in matching people with roles.Sophia came to the UK on a health and care worker visa, designed to help plug staffing gaps in the sector.She said she was placed in an unregistered, multi-occupancy house and when she complained that she was paying too much for t...