British taxpayers, in the midst of a rising unemployment rate and an economic crisis, are paying for the Border and Immigration Agency to advise foreign workers on how to take British jobs.

The revelation is made on the website of the  British Chamber of Commerce, which carries a prominent article about how that body, in conjunction with UK Visas and the Border and Immigration Agency, offers advice on how to employ foreign workers.

The organisations – two of which are paid for by public money – are offering seminars which have the “aim to cover all the main issues that businesses need to be aware of including the new policies and processes for obtaining UK Visas, work permits, and how the Immigration System works.”

The BCC website goes on to explain that government “department experts who will be presenting the seminars plan to show businesses how they might plug their skills gaps by looking at foreign workers as an alternative.”

In other words, British taxpayers are once again paying for government agents to actively recruit foreign workers instead of either looking for British people or training locals to do the job.

The BCC website goes on to explain that the main components of the taxpayer funded jamboree seminars are:

“The latest information governing the employment of foreign individuals, a step-by-step guide to the visa application process and how decisions are made, biometric visas explained and the effect on individual businesses, the Points Based System (PBS) which will replace existing work (employment) and study routes to the UK.”

* UKvisas is a joint Directorate of the Home Office and Foreign & Commonwealth Office.