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  2. More migrant workers claim UK farm exploitation - AOL

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    Bolivian Julia Quecano Casimiro came to the UK on a seasonal worker visa to pick cherries for Haygrove, a Herefordshire-based farm business. Ms Casimiro is currently taking the company to an ...

  3. Work permit - Wikipedia

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    The TFWP has four streams: high-skilled workers, low-skilled workers, the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program, and the Live-In Caregiver Program. [citation needed] The Canadian work permit is divided into two which include are the “open work permits” and “employer-specific work permits.” With an open work permit, an applicant can work ...

  4. Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers Protection Act of ...

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    The Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (AWPA or MSPA) (public law 97-470) (January 14, 1983), codified at 29 U.S.C. §§ 1801-1872, is the main federal law that protects farm workers in the United States and repealed and replaced the Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act (P.L. 88-582).

  5. Guest worker program - Wikipedia

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    The H-2A program is a program that enables farm owners to apply to the Department of Labor (DOL) to bring in "low-skilled laborers" for agricultural work. [13] In contrast, the H-2B program is for all non-agricultural work. [14] In both cases, this work must be temporary; however, to qualify for the H2-A program, the work must also be seasonal.

  6. The UK's new points-based immigration system explained - AOL

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  7. Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program - Wikipedia

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    The Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (French: Programme des travailleurs agricoles saisonniers, SAWP) is a Government of Canada program that was introduced by the Pearson government in 1966 between Canada and Jamaica but has since expanded to include Mexico and numerous other Caribbean countries. [1]

  8. Visa policy of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Although waiving visas or visa charges for United States citizens was discussed as early as 1930, [210] such visas would remain until 1948, when the UK abolished such visas and the US waived visa fees and doubled visa lengths for UK citizens, albeit stopping short at full visa abolition due to domestic considerations; MP Phil Piratin was denied ...

  9. History of UK immigration control - Wikipedia

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    The rules on young people coming for “working holidays” were to be relaxed and a new, “Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme” introduced which would be extended across the economy with set quotas for industries short of labour. Under the scheme a worker could stay up to six months but would have no right to bring dependants.