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Talent visas, supplied talent: two revocations and a £98,000 art offer
The Home Office is revoking two photographers’ visas after a BBC investigation found false reviews. A separate £98,000 offer proposed manufacturing an applicant’s artistic career.
WatchEarliest sourceThe Culture Custodian (Est. 2014.)
What we knew first
- The visa is meant for people with exceptional talent or promise. The sales pitch was that being an artist did not matter: the artworks could be included in the price. That contradiction sits at the centre of a BBC investigation into manufactured credentials for the UK’s Global Talent route—and a Home Office response that now threatens two men’s permission to live in Britain.
