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The Work-related Training Visit Visa is for overseas graduates from medical, dental or nursing schools, employees of overseas companies or organisations and employees of overseas based training companies who wish to visit the UK to undertake permitted unpaid work-related training activities for a period of up to 6 months. The...

The Home Office has published guidance on how the new certification process will operate under the Immigration Act 2016. Legislation Section 94B of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 contains a process which is known as certification. This means that an immigration appeal can only be lodged and heard, or continued...

Prior to the relevant provisions of the Immigration Act 2014 coming into force in April 2015, individuals who had an immigration application refused which did not bring their leave to an end did not benefit from a right of appeal against the refusal decision. This affected people who had no leave to remain in the UK at the time...

Recently, we have seen a number of refusal decisions certifying a human rights claim as clearly unfounded under s.94 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002. The effect of this is that an appeal against the refusal decision can only be brought once the applicant left the UK. Consequences of appealing from outside...

In XB v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWHC 2557 (Admin) the claimant successfully challenged the Secretary of State’s certification of her fresh claim for asylum as being clearly unfounded. The claimant had, by this point, already been removed from the UK, such that the learned judge directed the...

In our previous posts, we broke down the general and specific requirements for Start-up and Innovator visas.  We pointed out that whichever of the routes you follow, your business will need to be endorsed by a Home Office approved endorsing body.  The Home Office has now published a list of Innovator visa endorsing bodies and...

The European Commission has published its report on the development of the European Migration Network (EMN), a Commission-led network with national contact points in each Member States, as well as Norway. The purpose of the EMN is to provide up-to-date, objective, reliable and comparable information on migration and asylum,...

At Richmond Chambers LLP, we are proud to announce that we have recently been approved by UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) to join their UK Advisory Network. The UKTI works on an international scale to encourage trade and investment with the UK. Immigration Advice for Investors and Entrepreneurs The UK Advisory Network was...

Richmond Chambers is a member of the World Law Alliance (WLA) and WorldONE Alliance (WONE), a global network of leading law, tax, accounting and business advisory firms serving clients in more than 100+ countries.  Membership of the alliance is restricted to regionally strong boutiques and partnerships, delivering exceptional...

As part of the public health measures to guard against a second wave of coronavirus infection, from 8 June 2020, most travellers to the UK, including British citizens, will be required to spend 14 days in self-isolation. A breach of self-isolation will be punishable with a £1,000 fixed penalty notice in England or potential...