Britain has granted ‘special Global Talent’ visas to a number of foreigners including Turkish trans drag queens and Nigerian rappers and poets.
The “Global Talent visa” which is, apparently, intended to bring the very best creatives to the country, allows the recipients to stay in the UK for five years along with their dependents.
Skepticism about the Global Talent route comes after it was revealed that the Government intended to protect skilled worker visa routes for diversity and inclusion experts, despite a promised immigration crackdown.
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TheTelegraph reports: Applicants must have their claimed artist merit endorsed by the Arts Council before visas are ultimately signed off by the Home Office.
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The Telegraph has learned that transgender drag queens are among the talents welcomed to Britain, along with Nigerian rappers and poets who now have platforms offering advice on how to obtain UK visas.
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Trnsgender drag queens on special visas for “global talent”, The Telegraph can reveal.
The “Global Talent visa” permits recipients to stay in the UK for five years along with their dependents, and is intended to bring the very best creatives to the country.
Applicants must have their claimed artist merit endorsed by the Arts Council before visas are ultimately signed off by the Home Office.
The Telegraph has learned that transgender drag queens are among the talents welcomed to Britain, along with Nigerian rappers and poets who now have platforms offering advice on how to obtain UK visas.
Singers in African evangelical churches have been granted global talent visas to come to Britain, where they now sing in local African evangelical churches.
Examples of the global talents who have come to the UK have emerged amid growing debate about the visa route for creatives, and a 178 per cent increase in annual applications since 2019.
Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, has called for an “urgent” review of the “obviously nonsensical” visa route.
One of those who has received a coveted arts visa is Kübra Uzun, a transgender drag artist and “LGBTQIA+ rights activist” from Istanbul, who goes by the stage name of Q-BRA.
Uzun’s multi-disciplinary oeuvre includes the song Koli Kanonu, translated as “F—buddy Canon”, about going out to find a sexual partner.
The drag artist has also released, on Youtube, a version of a Carmen aria by Georges Bizet, re-writing the lyrics in “Turkish queer slang”.
Also in receipt of the Global Talent visa, according to a self-created online fundraiser to support them on arrival in the UK, was another transgender drag artist, going by the name Akis Ka.
Ka seeks to “leave queer marks on art history” across various disciplines, with a focus on “trans rights/of existence, body politics, food and eating sociology”.
Images from Ka’s Instagram page show a sign being held at a Pride march, stating: “JK is Rowling into Azkhaban.”
JK Rowling has been a prominent critic of gender ideology, and Azkhaban is a fictional prison from her Harry Potter series, reserved for the particularly evil.
Another image on Ka’s Instagram shows the drag artist holding a cardboard sign that states: “I support trans wrongs.”
