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Adequate Maintenance Requirement - Appendix FM

In July 2012, the Immigration Rules were changed to implement new requirements for non-EEA nationals applying to enter or remain in the UK under the family migration route. Appendix FM of the Immigration Rules was...

Future of Digital Technology Global Talent Visa Confirmed

It was announced earlier this year, on 31 January 2023, that Tech Nation would cease operations on 31 March 2022 following the Government’s decision to award the Digital Growth Grant of £12.09m to...

Skilled Worker Salary Rate Transitional Arrangements

Changes to the Immigration Rules regarding salary can make extension and settlement applications nerve-wracking for Skilled Workers and sponsor licence holders.  For those originally granted as either Tier...

What is Asylum in the UK?

Asylum and asylum seekers have been near-constant features of the news cycle in the UK for several years now. With the recent introduction of the Nationality and Borders Act, the Rwanda policy and the government’s...

Remote & Hybrid Working for Skilled Workers

If you are currently sponsored as a Skilled Worker  you may wish to work from home or be considering if this is possible with your permission to be in the UK.  Alternatively, your employer who holds a sponsor...

High Court: Automatic Loss of Rights under the EUSS is Unlawful

The Independent Monitoring Authority for the Citizens’ Rights Agreements (IMA) recently won its Judicial Review challenge against the government, in which it argued that the UK was unlawfully implementing...

What Is the New Illegal Migration Bill 2023?

On 08 March 2023, the government proposed the new Illegal Migration Bill in an attempt to stop people coming to the UK ‘unlawfully’ by ‘unsafe and illegal routes’ such as on small boats crossing the channel....

List of Innovator Founder Visa Endorsing Bodies Announced

The UK government has established the Innovator Founder visa route to attract start-up entrepreneurs and experienced businesspersons to the country.   To be eligible for an Innovator Founder visa, applicants do...

Upper Tribunal Considers Discretion to Defer Biometric Enrolment

In R (on the application of MRS and FS) v Entry Clearance Officer (Biometrics, Entry Clearance, Article 8) [2023] UKUT 00085 (IAC), in the context of judicial review proceedings, the Upper Tribunal...

Global Business Mobility Sponsor Licence Application Guide

The Global Business Mobility (‘GBM’) routes are sponsored immigration routes that allow eligible businesses to sponsor overseas workers to come to the UK to undertake temporary assignments. There are five Global...

Closed Material Procedures in Immigration Cases

When an individual challenges a decision made by a public body (as happens in immigration cases), it is generally considered a fundamental feature of natural justice and fairness that they must be shown the evidence...