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UK Visa Processing Times - How Quickly Will You Receive A Decision?
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This article was written in 2015.  For the latest information on UK visa processing times, please read: UK Visa Processing & Decision Waiting Times What Are the Current Home Office UK Visa Processing Times? Once...

 you have submitted a visa application to the Home Office, it is helpful to know when to expect a decision, and what you may be able to do if no decision is received within a reasonable time.  In this...

New Criminal Record Checks for Tier 1 Investors and Tier 1 Entrepreneurs
By Paul Richmond - Managing Partner

The Home Office has today announced a requirement for Tier 1 Investor and Tier 1 Entrepreneur visa applicants to provide overseas criminal record certificates in support of their visa applications.Contact Us

 The Home Office has today announced a requirement for Tier 1 Investor and Tier 1 Entrepreneur visa applicants to provide overseas criminal record certificates in support of their visa applications.Contact Us

EU Citizens Bring Higher Skills if Born Outside the EU
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EU citizens living in the UK are more likely to be working in high-skilled jobs if they were born outside of the EU, according to new analysis from the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford. The analysis,...

 which looks at data from the Labour Force Survey, found that the share of EU citizens living in the UK who were born outside Europe has fluctuated between 6 and 9% since 2004. By the beginning of 2015,...

Successful challenge to a Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) refusal
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Richmond Chambers recently assisted a client in successfully challenging a decision of the Secretary of State to refuse leave to remain as a Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) Migrant. The application had been made on the...

 basis of switching from leave as a Tier 1 (Post-Study Work) Migrant into the Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) category and was therefore required to meet provision (d) of Table 4 in Appendix A of the Immigration...

Private Medical Treatment in the UK - Visas and Immigration
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The Private Medical Treatment visitor visa enables those who can afford it to travel to the UK for the specific purpose of receiving medical treatment in the UK. The Applicant must meet most of the...

 requirements of the Visit (Standard) visa and also show that the cost of the medical treatment can be met and that the medical treatment is of the ‘finite duration’. They will be required to produce evidence of their...

10 year ILR applications: discretion to waive breaks in continuous residence
By Paul Richmond - Managing Partner

This is an update to an article posted earlier this year, concerning breaks in continuous residence and applications for indefinite leave to remain under paragraph 276B of the Immigration Rules (the 10...

 year ILR rule). As we noted previously, in order to qualify for settlement on the basis of long residence, applicants have to demonstrate at least 10 years continuous and lawful residence in the UK. Continuous...

Variable income and the financial requirement under Appendix FM
By Richmond Chambers -

In applications made under Appendix FM of the Immigration Rules for entry clearance or leave to remain as a partner the applicant is required to satisfy a financial requirement. The Rules require an...

 applicant to demonstrate, by reference to specified evidence, a gross annual income of at least £18,600. Where the applicant and their partner have children (who are not British or a citizen of an EEA country), the...

Calls to Add Nurses to the Shortage Occupation List
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Many nurses will be forced to leave their jobs with the NHS and return to their home countries because of changes to immigration rules, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has warned. The new rules say that people...

 who have moved to the UK from out with the European Economic Area have to leave after six years unless they are earning at least £35,000. According to the RCN, as many as 3,365 nurses who currently work...

Employer’s duty to prevent illegal working
By Richmond Chambers -

UK employers have a duty to prevent illegal working in the UK by people who are subject to immigration control. Where this is not complied with, an employer may face a financial penalty (civil penalty) and...

 in some cases, prosecution. An employer can avoid becoming liable for a civil penalty and prosecution by carrying out simple specified document checks on prospective employees before employing them, to ensure...

Analysis of proposed changes to Tier 2
By Richmond Chambers -

The Home Secretary has asked the Migration Advisory Committee to look at proposals to cut non-EEA work migration. The proposals reveal a tension between what business wants (the brightest and best staff,...

 no matter their nationality) and what the Government wants (more jobs for British Citizens). The Tier 2 route is for workers skilled to graduate level, with some limited exceptions. It takes time to skill a...

MAC to Consider How to Reduce Migrant Labour Demand
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The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has been asked by the Government to look at ways the country can reduce work migration from outside the EU, while making sure Britain remains open to the best talent. The...

 MAC commission, which will examine how the Tier 2 (Skilled Work) visa system functions, follows the first meeting of the Prime Minister’s newly-formed Immigration Taskforce that has been tasked with...

Retained Rights of Residence following divorce from an EEA national
By Dr. Catherine Taroni - Immigration Barrister

Advocate General Kokott has recently given her Opinion in Case C-218/14, Singh, Njume and Aly, 7 May 2015, a case concerning retained rights of residence following divorce from an EEA national. Factual Background Messrs...

 Singh, Njume and Aly were all married in Ireland to Union citizens exercising their Treaty rights in Ireland and who were granted permission to reside based on their relationship with their spouses....
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