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\n A Walsall curry house which employed an illegal worker is applying for a new licence.\n <\/p>\n
Dera on Calmore Road had its previous licence revoked in July at a meeting of Walsall Council\u2019s licensing and safety committee.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was brought under review after the Home Office visited the site in 2025 and found an illegal worker.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One Pakistani national was working outside of his visa conditions and the restaurant was issued a \u00a345,000 fine.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The worker, who was then arrested, was in the UK on a type of visa which only allowed a specific type of work. His role as a cleaner at Dera did not qualify.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At the July meeting, the Home office spokesperson, Alex Romano, said: \u201cThe ability to work illegally is a key driver of illegal migration; it encourages people to breach UK immigration law and provides the means for migrants to remain unlawfully in the UK.\u201d<\/p>\n
West Midlands Police also called for the licence to be revoked. Jennifer Mellor, speaking for the force, said: \u201cThese types of crimes do impact on the police but they also can increase and impact the crime figures for Walsall as a borough.\u201d<\/p>\n
A representative for the former licence holder, Mr Talat Jalil, said he admitted that he failed to carry out the required right-to-work checks in the \u2018isolated incident\u2019, explaining that his ill-health following a heart attack affected his management of the business.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The representative said: \u201cThe manager genuinely believed the worker held a visa and allowed him to take on the kind of employment. It was a genuine mistake. There is no evidence he sought to employ the individual knowingly.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has been cooperative with the police and made no attempt to mislead or deceive the immigration enforcement officers.\u201d<\/p>\n
The committee decided to revoke the licence.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The new application requests opening hours of 12:00 to 05:00 and late night refreshment from 23:00 to 05:00.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Walsall curry house which employed an illegal worker is applying for a new licence. Dera on Calmore…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1192441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[22440,22441,855,9163,22439,748,9444,1354,393,9453,4884,14987,269,12,3669,9440,93,16823,16,15],"class_list":["post-1192440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-102-5","tag-102-5-fm","tag-birmingham","tag-black-country","tag-brierley-hill","tag-britain","tag-dab","tag-dudley","tag-england","tag-fm","tag-great-britain","tag-halesowen","tag-music","tag-news","tag-online","tag-radio","tag-sport","tag-stourbridge","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117233003411527444","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1192441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}