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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...

Entrepreneurs: investing funds prior to making your initial application
By Gillian McCall - Barrister Partner

Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) migrants are required to show that they have access to either £200,000 investment funds or £50,000 investment funds where they are switching from Tier 1 (Graduate Entrepreneur) or have funds...

 from a specific source such as a seed funding competition. There are strict specified evidence requirements to show that the funds are available and this can be met, in the case of someone applying for...

Arshad and Others (Tier 1 applicants - funding - "availability") [2016] UKUT 334 (IAC)
By Gillian McCall - Barrister Partner

The Upper Tribunal has once again looked at the Rules relating to the Entrepreneur category, in a determination which focusses on the availability of funds to invest in a UK business, specifically, where the funding...

 is provided by a Venture Capital Firm. The first thing to note about this case, is that all Appellants made their applications between January and April 2013 and therefore the law referred to in the...

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