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Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme (Homes for Ukraine)

On 1 March 2022, the Home Secretary announced a bespoke humanitarian support package for Ukrainians.  The Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme (Homes for Ukraine) allows Ukrainian nationals and their family members to...

Changes to Right to Work Checks from 6 April 2022

The Home Office has announced that as of 06 April 2022, the only way that employers will be permitted to carry out Right to Work checks for certain employees, will be electronically. How Can Employers Carry Out...

UK Expansion Worker Visa replaces Sole Representative of an Overseas Business Visa

On 15 March the Home Office released a new Statement of Changes with significant changes to the Immigration Rules for people coming to the UK to work.  Notable among these changes is that the Representative of an...

The UK's Global Business Mobility Visa Explained

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...

Key Personnel in Sponsor Licence Applications

In our previous post, How To Apply For A Skilled Worker Sponsor Licence, we set out the criteria to be met when applying for a licence to sponsor a skilled worker. One of the steps in a Skilled Worker Sponsor...

Updates to the Ukraine Family Scheme

Further to our earlier post here, there have been a number of updates in the Home Office response to the war in Ukraine. However, the humanitarian sponsorship scheme announced on 01 March 2022 has not yet been opened. Visa...

Settlement on the Hong Kong BN(O) Visa Route

The Hong Kong British National (Overseas) visa route has attracted a great amount of attention over the past year. According to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s Six-Monthly Report on Hong Kong,...

Apply for a Health & Care Worker Sponsor Licence

In order to obtain a sponsor licence to bring sponsored healthcare workers to the UK, there has to be a company with a sponsor licence and the workers must be sponsored to work for that company.    As has been...

Dual Citizens of the EU and the UK and Comprehensive Sickness Insurance

On 1 February 2022, the government agreed to amend the Immigration Rules to end the unfairness faced by EU citizens who successfully obtained British citizenship, despite a historic lack of Comprehensive Sickness...

How to extend your sole representative of an overseas business visa

If you are reading this, and you are a sole representative looking to extend, you will likely already have met the first criteria by entering the UK with valid UK entry clearance as a sole representative of...

Healthcare Worker Visa: Calculating Salary Rates

Employers seeking to sponsor migrants under the Skilled Worker route’s Health and Care Worker Visa must be paid an appropriate salary for their position. Their salary must be equal to, or exceed, the...

Immigration Health Surcharge - What Is It and Who Needs to Pay?

The majority of UK visa applicants will be required to pay the Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS) on top of their application fees. If you are outside of the UK, and applying for limited leave to remain in the UK...