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Scale-up Visa Open for High-Growth Companies
By Paul Richmond - Managing Partner

High-growth companies that need to employ talented individuals now have a new immigration route open to them.  The Scale-up visa route, which opens today, allows employers that have secured a Scale-up sponsor licence...

 to recruit the highly skilled individuals that they need to enable their business to continue growing.  If you are an employer considering the Scale-up Worker route as part of your overall recruitment...

High Potential Individual Visa - Routes to ILR
By Dr. Catherine Taroni - Immigration Barrister

If you are a top global university graduate and are eligible to apply under the new High Potential Individual (HPI) route, this is a great option for you, and will enable you to move to the UK for 2-3 years.    The...

 High Potential Individual Visa route is for recent graduates of top global universities, who want to work, or look for work in the UK, following the successful completion of a course of study...

The UK's Global Business Mobility Visa Explained
By Paul Richmond - Managing Partner

In its latest Statement of Changes to the Immigration Rules (HC1118), published on 15 March 2022, the Home Office has provided further details of several new business immigration routes, including the High Potential...

 Individual (HPI) route, the Scale-up route and the new Global Business Mobility routes.   In this article we look at each of the new Global Business Mobility routes in detail, focussing on who they are...

Sole Representative Visa: Skills, Experience and Knowledge
By Richmond Chambers -

As explained in my earlier posts, the amendments to the sole representative visa category revealed four anxieties that the Home Office had, regarding: Majority ownership and control of the parent company by the...

 representative and/or their partner; The representative’s skills, experience and knowledge (or lack thereof);  The branch/subsidiary being established solely for the purpose of facilitating the entry and...

Sole Representative: What does it mean to be recruited outside of the UK?
By Gillian McCall - Barrister Partner

The Sole Representative of an Oversea Business category is for individuals who are employed by a business outside of the UK who are being sent to the UK by their employer for the purpose of opening and operating...

 a branch or subsidiary of the same business in the UK.  In this article we will look at the requirement to be recruited outside of the UK.   What is the requirement to be recruited outside the...

Sole Representative Visa: An Alternative to the Innovator Visa
By Gillian McCall - Barrister Partner

On 29 March 2019 new rules were introduced for those who want to run a business in the UK, bringing into force Appendix W which includes the Innovator visa and Start-up visa categories. These routes initially seemed...

 like an improvement on the now-closed Entrepreneur category with a lower investment funds threshold and assessments of the business being carried out by people in industry, rather than caseworkers in the...

Changes to the Business Immigration Rules
By Richmond Chambers -

The UK government has made some changes to its Business Immigration Rules and states these change will help crack down on any abuse of the system while also indicating the UK’s commitment to bringing in top talent. What...

 are the Business Immigration Rule changes? The changes to Business Immigration Rules have provided two new routes for applicants seeking visas to start up businesses in the UK. The new Start-Up...

Changes to the Business Immigration Rules
By Richmond Chambers -

On 16 October 2014 the Home Office published its latest Statement of Changes to the Immigration Rules. The new Immigration Rules came into force on 6th November 2014, introducing a number of changes to the business...

 immigration categories, including: Tier 2 (General), Tier 2 (ICT), Tier 2 (Sportsperson), Tier 5 (Temporary Worker – Creative and Sporting), Tier 5 (Youth Mobility Scheme), Tier 1 (Investor), Tier 1...

New report on Immigration policy
By Richmond Chambers -

Current immigration policy is choking business growth for zero political gain, a new report from think tank, CentreForum, warns.Contact Us

 Current immigration policy is choking business growth for zero political gain, a new report from think tank, CentreForum, warns.Contact Us

UK immigration targets under threat, but business relocations increase
By Richmond Chambers -

The latest immigration figures from the Office for National Statistics revealed a surprising increase in the UK’s net migration, as we discussed in an earlier blog post. Fall in emigration Although there are a...

 number of factors that could have contributed to this rise, including a drop in the levels of emigration from the UK, it has cast doubt over the Government’s ability to reduce net migration to the “tens...

New visa free scheme for Gulf
By Richmond Chambers -

Following changes made to the visa system for visitors from China and India earlier this year, the government has now announced that it plans to change the visa system for visitors from some of the Gulf states. With...

 effect from 1st January 2014 Emirati, Omani and Qatari passport holders will be able to apply for an electronic visa waiver (EVW) for travel to the UK. There will be no charge for the EVW and it is...

Business travellers to receive new premium visa services
By Richmond Chambers -

In a further move to attract business highfliers to work and invest in the UK, the Government has announced that it intends to improve upon the current visa system. The plans include the launch of the GREAT club,...

 a service which aims to provide top flight business executives with individually tailored support from UK Visas and Immigration. The club will be launched in January 2014 on a trial basis, for one year,...
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