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Sponsor Licence Audits and Compliance Visits Resume

In March 2020, as a result of COVID-19, sponsor licence compliance visits were suspended by the Home Office. However, these audits will now be re-commencing as lockdown restrictions ease across the United Kingdom. Officers...

Why does my BRP expire on 31/12/2024?

If you have been granted indefinite leave to remain (ILR) in the past few years, you will probably have been issued with a Biometric Residence Permit (BRP) with an expiry date of 31 December 2024. From 1 January...

How To Pass The Tier 2 Sponsor Licence Genuineness Test

The Home Office needs to ensure that those applying to come to the UK for work are eligible and that a reputable employer has a genuine wish to sponsor them.  Ask yourself the three questions below in order to...

Sponsor Compliance Visits - What To Expect?

The Home Office may undertake a sponsor compliance visit in order to assess an organisation once it has submitted a sponsor licence application. They may also visit once a sponsor licence has been granted in order...

What is work? Complying with your visa conditions

Under the Immigration Rules, many people have restrictions on their right to work in the UK. This article will look at some of the main definitions of work used in the Immigration rules in the main work and study...

The ‘Genuine Entrepreneur’ test and Business Plans

The ‘Genuine Entrepreneur’ test was introduced in 2013, and is a discretionary element of the otherwise fairly objective Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) application. The Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) modernised...

Civil Penalty Appeals Can Be Heard By The Court of Appeal

In Secretary of State for the Home Department v Akbar [2017] EWCA Civ 16 (19 January 2017) the Court of Appeal has ruled that it has jurisdiction to hear appeals from the County Court concerning civil penalties...

Civil Penalties, Right To Work and Protecting Your Business

The Home Office has published its list of civil penalties for the first quarter of 2016, with the fines imposed totalling more than £14 million. Elsewhere in the media, the relationship between certain employers...

Right to rent: The impact of the Immigration Act 2016 on migrants with lawful status

The Immigration Act 2014 made it compulsory for private landlords to check the immigration status of all new adult tenants, sub-tenants and lodgers in order to assess whether they have a ‘Right to Rent’ in...

Potential Impact of Cuts to EU Migration

Employers in different sectors of the UK economy could be affected in very different ways if measures are introduced to restrict the jobs that EU migrant workers can occupy following a vote for the UK to...

Dependents of Tier 2 Workers should Keep the Right to Work

The majority of those surveyed said they are in favour of retaining the right to work for dependents of highly skilled workers who come to the UK from outside the EU. The survey was conducted by campaign organisation...

A Guide to Right to Rent Checks for Landlords

Section 22 of the Immigration Act 2014 makes landlords liable for a civil penalty if they authorise an adult who is not lawfully present in the UK (and who has not been given the permission to rent), to occupy property...