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Tier 1 Investor Visa: Are you caught in the Corporate Bond trap?
By Paul Richmond - Managing Partner

As is well known, Tier 1 Investor visa holders must, within 3 months of entering the UK, make a substantial financial investment by purchasing share capital or loan capital in active and trading UK registered companies....

 Many Tier 1 (Investor) visa holders, seeking to balance risk and return, invest wholly or partly in UK Corporate Bonds, often on the advice of investment managers. However few, it would seem, are...

Can a Tier 1 Investor Invest in Property?
By Paul Richmond - Managing Partner

When is an investment in property, or a property-related business, a permitted investment for the purpose of applying for, extending, or settling in the UK on the basis of a Tier 1 Investor visa? Can a Tier 1 Investor...

 invest in property? How about investment in property-related businesses? In this article, we examine when residential property-related investment is, and is not, permitted under the Immigration Rules...

New rules for Tier 1 Investors – What does maintaining the investment mean?
By Richmond Chambers -

With the new Immigration Rules for Tier 1 Investor visa applications in force from today, 6 November 2014, much has already been written about the widely anticipated increase in the investment funds requirement...

 from £1 million to £2 million. However, the new Immigration Rules also introduce other, less widely publicised, changes which must be anticipated by new investors. In this article we focus on the new...

Extending your UK Tier 1 Investor visa: the main requirements
By Richmond Chambers -

In order to extend your leave to remain in the UK as a Tier 1 Investor, you must show that you have £1 million in the UK, you have invested £750,000 in specified ways within 3 months of your specified date and...

 that you have maintained your investment since. 1. £1 million in the UK The £1 million held in the UK should include a minimum of £750,000 invested in specified ways and any further money necessary to...

Tier 1 Investor visa category – Home Affairs Select Committee recommends suspension
By Richmond Chambers -

In its latest report on the work of the Immigration Directorate, published on 21 March 2014, the Home Affairs Select Committee has recommended that the Tier 1 Investor visa category should be suspended pending...

 the Home Office’s consideration of the recommendations of the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), chaired by Professor Sir David Metcalf. The Select Committee commented as follows: 45. The Committee was...

Changes to the Tier 1 Investor and Entrepreneur categories from 6 April 2014
By Richmond Chambers -

In the most recent Statement of Changes to the Immigration Rules, the Home Office has announced important changes to the Tier 1 Investor and Entrepreneur categories of the points-based system. The changes...

 were laid before Parliament on 13 March 2014 and come into force with effect from 6 April 2014. At present, Tier 1 (Investor) Migrants are required to invest their funds within three months of entering the UK or...

Changes to the Tier 1 (Investor) visa category from 13 December 2012
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