As an aside, I’ve seen this happen elsewhere as well. Classic play for wage theft. When I was working as a bartender in London to make ends meet, I had a coworker from Mexico on an expired visa. Great guy and the most hardworking. Well won’t you guess it, guy got picked up by immigration authority on payday.
I couldn’t tell you. This is almost 20 years ago now and I know my colleague disappeared from one day to the next after payday.
Ah right, the rules changed about 10 years ago.