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Innovator Visa Guidance: Investment Funds & Endorsement
By Paul Richmond - Managing Partner

The Innovator visa category is for non-EEA nationals who are experienced businesspersons seeking to establish a business in the UK.  With the Innovator visa category due to open on 29 March 2019, but the Innovator...

 Visa Policy Guidance not yet published, we thought we’d shed some light on the investment funds and endorsement requirements of the new Innovator visa. Do I need to have access to £50,000? You will...

Challenging an Entrepreneur refusal on the basis of genuineness
By Gillian McCall - Barrister Partner

Since 2013, Entrepreneur applications have been subject to an assessment of genuineness: whether the applicant is genuine in their intention to run or start a business in the UK. This assessment is done subjectively,...

 by the decision-maker. In relation to the first application to enter the category, whether this is in the UK or an application for Entry Clearance, the Home Office will need to be satisfied that: (i)...

How to switch from a Tier 1 Graduate Entrepreneur to a Start-up Visa
By Richmond Chambers -

If you are in the UK as a Tier 1 (Graduate Entrepreneur) Migrant you might be asking yourself what to do next. You might be on your first year and have intended to extend for a second year, or you might...

 have put together those £50,000 of investment funds and were planning to switch into the Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) category.  Don’t worry—you still have options, including the new Start-up visa. What are the...

A Guide to the Innovator visa
By Gillian McCall - Barrister Partner

On 7 March 2019, the Home Office announced the closure of the Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) visa category and introduced a new immigration category: the Innovator visa. This announcement has been much anticipated, since...

 the Home Office indicated it intended to take this step back at the end of last year (also many of us have been awaiting an overhaul since the MAC review in 2015), but this is the first opportunity we have...

Requirements for the new Innovator & Start-Up Visas
By Richmond Chambers -

The much anticipated Statement of Changes including for Entrepreneurs and Investors is hot off the press today. Near the end of the 296 pages, you will find the new Appendix W, which contains the rules for “Workers”....

 The Start-up visa and Innovator visa categories will be introduced on 29 March 2019. According to the Introduction to that Appendix, “It is anticipated that other categories for workers will be...

Closure of Tier 1 Entrepreneur category: deadlines for applications
By Dr. Catherine Taroni - Immigration Barrister

The Home Office has today, 7 March 2019, published its statement of changes (HC1919) giving details to the anticipated Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) closure, and introducing the Tier 1 (Innovator) and (Start up) categories...

 which replace it.  Details of those new categories are in separate blogs. Paragraph 245Da is soon to read: (i) This category is now closed to new applicants. Deadlines for migrants making initial...

Changes to the Tier 1 Investor visa route
By Paul Richmond - Managing Partner

The Home Office has today laid before Parliament its long anticipated Statement of Changes to the Immigration Rules HC1919.  The Statement of Changes introduces various changes to the Tier 1 Investor visa category...

 designed to better protect against financial crime and ensure that investments are of greater benefit to the UK economy.  The changes to the Tier 1 Investor visa will come into force on 29 March 2019 and...

Entrepreneurs: Apply for ILR by 6 April 2019 to take advantage of more flexible rules on Job Creation
By Gillian McCall - Barrister Partner

Individuals applying for an Extension of Leave or Indefinite Leave to Remain in the UK as a Tier 1 Entrepreneur have had to create jobs in their business/businesses. The Job Creation Rule & Guidance The current...

 rules state: The applicant has: (a) established a new business or businesses that has or have created the equivalent of at least 2 new full time jobs for settled workers, or (b) taken over or invested...

When can a Tier 1 (Exceptional Talent) visa be a good alternative to a Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) visa?
By Jasmine Theilgaard - Immigration Barrister

If you would like to come to the UK to start a business, your first consideration is likely to be a Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) visa. However, there are some cases in which the Tier 1 (Exceptional Talent) visa can allow...

 entry and future settlement in the UK for individuals working in the digital technology sector without the need for prior investment, and with a lot more flexibility upon arrival. Tech Nation has been...

Goodbye Entrepreneurs, Hello Innovators!
By Gillian McCall - Barrister Partner

The last week has been somewhat turbulent for the Tier 1 categories, with a shock announcement that the Tier 1 (Investor) category was being suspended with almost immediate effect, followed by a hasty subsequent...

 announcement, which came via the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA), to state that the suspension was not in fact going ahead now, but may or may not come into effect at some...

Tier 1 Investor Visa Update
By Paul Richmond - Managing Partner

It’s been a rather tumultuous 10 days for the Tier 1 Investor visa category, so we thought we would share a Tier 1 Investor visa update.  It all started with a quarterly statistical release showing that demand...

 for Tier 1 Investor visas had increased again.  One week later, a statement from the Immigration Minister, Caroline Nokes, led media outlets to announce that the Tier 1 Investor visa category was being...

Tier 1 Investor Visa Route Is Open - But What's Changing And Why?
By Paul Richmond - Managing Partner

The Tier 1 Investor visa route is open, but the Investor visa category is being reviewed. In this post we look at why the UK Investor visa is being reviewed and the changes that are likely to be afoot for the Tier...

 1 Investor visa category. Background On Thursday, 6 December 2018, it was widely reported in the UK press that the Tier 1 Investor visa route would be temporarily suspended for new applicants at midnight...
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