{"id":86254,"date":"2021-03-20T12:47:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T12:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/mar\/20\/specialist-covid-infection-control-scientist-faces-threat-of-deportation-from-uk"},"modified":"2021-03-20T12:47:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T12:47:54","slug":"specialist-covid-infection-control-scientist-faces-threat-of-deportation-from-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/03\/20\/specialist-covid-infection-control-scientist-faces-threat-of-deportation-from-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Specialist Covid infection control scientist faces threat of deportation from UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Oti should be in his NHS job fighting the virus. Instead, the Home Office wants to send him to Nigeria<\/p><p>An infection control specialist who has been offered a job as a senior NHS biomedical scientist to help tackle the pandemic is facing deportation by the Home Office, prompting fresh calls for a more \u201chumane\u201d approach to skilled migrants.<\/p><p>The government has refused Charles Oti, 46, from Nigeria the right to remain in the UK even though the job he was offered is among the government\u2019s most sought-after skilled positions.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/jan\/26\/skilled-commonwealth-migrants-still-facing-unlawful-deportation\">Skilled Commonwealth migrants still facing 'unlawful' deportation<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/mar\/20\/specialist-covid-infection-control-scientist-faces-threat-of-deportation-from-uk\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/mar\/20\/specialist-covid-infection-control-scientist-faces-threat-of-deportation-from-uk\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Oti should be in his NHS job fighting the virus. Instead, the Home Office wants to send him to NigeriaAn infection control specialist who has been offered a job as a senior NHS biomedical scientist to help tackle the pandemic is facing deportat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2676,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[708,338,1244,3056,6,3055,3331,1277,3057,553,1314,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86255,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86254\/revisions\/86255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}