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New Immigration Rules for Skilled Workers: What’s Changing in April 2025?
By Paul Richmond - Managing Partner

In This Article 1. New Recruitment Rules for Care Workers in England 2. Government Crackdown on Exploitation and Visa Abuse 3. Increase in Minimum Salary for Skilled Worker Visa Applicants 4. Changes...

 to Salary Deductions and Sponsorship Costs 5. New Requirements for ‘New Entrant’ Salary Discounts 6. What These Changes Mean for Employers and Applicants 7. Looking Ahead: Future Immigration Policy...

Health and Care Worker Visa: Your Questions Answered
By Annie Ee - Senior Legal Associate

In This Article 1. Overview of the Health and Care Worker Visa: Eligibility and Family Provisions 2. What Are the Eligibility Requirements? 3. Which Occupations Are Eligible for the Health and Care Worker Visa? 4....

 Who Are the Approved Sponsors? 5. What Are the Salary Thresholds? 6. How Can I Prove My English Language Proficiency? 7. How Can I Meet the Financial Requirements for the Health and Care Worker Visa? 8....

Care Organisations and Sponsor Licence Compliance Issues
By Georgina Griggs - Immigration Barrister

During the Covid-19 pandemic, and following Brexit, we saw a huge increase in the number of organisations applying for Skilled Worker sponsor licences, particularly organisations in the care sector. Due to Covid...

 restrictions, and the increase in application numbers, the Home Office waved through a number of applications from care homes and other organisations in the care sector, granting sponsor licences without...

Requirements for a Health and Care Worker Visa
By Bernard Wood - Immigration Barrister

Launched in 2020 the Health and Care Worker Visa is open to qualified doctors, nurses and allied health professionals of all nationalities (except British and Irish) who have been trained to a recognised standard....

 The route can lead to settlement after 5 years and applicants can be joined by dependent partners and children. What are the eligible roles to qualify for a Health and Care Visa? In order to qualify for a...

Apply for a Health & Care Worker Sponsor Licence
By Dr. Catherine Taroni - Immigration Barrister

In order to obtain a sponsor licence to bring sponsored healthcare workers to the UK, there has to be a company with a sponsor licence and the workers must be sponsored to work for that company.    As has been...

 widely publicised, the healthcare workers route has been expanded – further details are available in our earlier post here. Purpose of the Healthcare Worker Route The skilled worker route is to enable...

Healthcare Worker Visa: Calculating Salary Rates
By Georgina Griggs - Immigration Barrister

Employers seeking to sponsor migrants under the Skilled Worker route’s Health and Care Worker Visa must be paid an appropriate salary for their position. Their salary must be equal to, or exceed, the...

 minimum salary requirements as set out in Appendix Skilled Worker and Appendix Skilled Occupations to the Immigration Rules. For healthcare workers, these are calculated differently to other occupation codes. This...

UK Visa for Care Workers & Home Carers: Update
By Paul Richmond - Managing Partner

As we reported last month, in an attempt to alleviate current pressure on the health and social care system as a result of Covid-19, the Home Office recently announced that the UK Health and Care Worker visa is...

 to be opened up to overseas care workers, care assistants and home carers. More details have now been released in a Statement of Changes to the Immigration Rules HC1019 published on 24 January 2022. Health...

Health & Care Visa Opening to More Care Workers
By Paul Richmond - Managing Partner

Overseas social workers, care assistants and home care workers will soon be eligible to apply for a UK Health and Care Worker Visa.  It is hoped that the extension of the Health and Care Worker route will...

 allow thousands of additional care workers to be recruited to fill staff shortages within the UK’s social care sector. The temporary measures announced by the Home Office are expected to come into force in early...

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