NEWS - Identity cards for foreign nationals will be extended

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Identity cards for foreign nationals will be extended to skilled workers in January

10 December 2009

From next month, skilled migrant workers and their dependants will receive an identity card for foreign nationals when they successfully apply to extend their stay in the UK under Tier 2 of the points-based system.

Under regulations approved by Parliament yesterday, all Tier 2 applications made inside the UK on or after 6 January 2010 will involve the enrolment of the applicant's biometric information (fingerprints and photograph).

Migrants in a number of other categories must already enrol their biometrics and obtain an identity card for foreign nationals when they apply to extend their stay in the UK. For more information, see the Identity cards section of this website.

http://www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk/siteco ... ed-workers