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Court of Appeal scolds Home Office judgments
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The Court of Appeal has recently ruled that the Home Office has been “too ready to find dishonesty” in UK immigration claims. This is with respect to skilled migrants who are living in Britain and is the...

latest black mark against the government department. Home Office policy attacked The Home Office developed a policy of refusing applications on the basis of discrepancies in the earnings that they were...

Sole Representative Visa: An Alternative to the Innovator Visa
By Gillian McCall - Barrister Partner

On 29 March 2019 new rules were introduced for those who want to run a business in the UK, bringing into force Appendix W which includes the Innovator visa and Start-up visa categories. These routes initially seemed...

like an improvement on the now-closed Entrepreneur category with a lower investment funds threshold and assessments of the business being carried out by people in industry, rather than caseworkers in the...

Impact of a restructuring on a Sponsor Licence
By Richmond Chambers -

As a licensed sponsor, it is important to consider the impact of any restructuring in your organisation, no matter how big or small, on your sponsor licence and your sponsored migrants. As we have already established...

in a previous blog post, a sponsor licence comes with a number of obligations and the organisation is required to report to the Home Office specific changes in the organisation. The questions to ask...

British Medical Association Questions NHS Charges for Overseas Patients
By Richmond Chambers -

The British Medical Association has published a new report which strongly suggests a significant amount of immigrant patients are forgoing NHS treatment due to upfront charges introduced in 2017 (under The National...

Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors – Amendment).  A dangerous lack of understanding about which conditions and circumstances the charges apply to seems widespread – which is especially...

Switching from Graduate Entrepreneur or Start-up to Entrepreneur
By Gillian McCall - Barrister Partner

As we have previously covered in the Knowledge Centre, the Tier 1 (Graduate Entrepreneur) route will close to new entrants on 5 July 2019. However individuals who have already entered the category will be able...

to spend the period of time they are granted in the UK or can switch into the Start-up category. However, individuals who have been granted leave in the Tier 1 (Graduate Entrepreneur) category, including...

Alternatives to the Start-up and Innovator visas
By Richmond Chambers -

As many of you will be aware, the Tier 1 Entrepreneur route closed for initial applications on 29 March 2019. If you are a business person with relevant experience you may be finding it difficult to ascertain an...

appropriate way to carry out your business activities in the UK. Our earlier blog post explored the current list of endorsing bodies that an applicant must apply to for a Start-up visa or Innovator visa....

£1 Million Tier 1 (Investor) Route To Close
By Gillian McCall - Barrister Partner

In the Statement of Changes of 7 March 2019, the headlines were mostly taken by the closure of the Entrepreneur category and the new two-year requirement for Investment funds for Investors who are wishing to enter...

the category for the first time. However, there are some other changes announced within this document that could have significant effects on the long term plans of some individuals who are already in the...

Tier 1 (Investor) - what counts as an investment?
By Dr. Catherine Taroni - Immigration Barrister

As set out in our post here, there have been some recent changes to the Tier 1 (Investor) visa category.   Government bonds? Property? Government bonds and property are not qualifying investments for new applicants....

 One important change on the 29 March 2019 changes was to remove the option of investing in government bonds for applications made on or after 29 March 2019.  The 2014 changes and introduction of the...

Settled Status or Permanent Residence Document?
By Richmond Chambers -

It now appears that the UK will remain a member state of the EU and therefore benefit from freedom of movement until 31 October 2019. The EU Settled Status Scheme opened to all applicants on 30 March 2019. This...

means that at present there are two systems operating in parallel for EU nationals and any eligible non-EEA national family members to obtain evidence of their status in the UK: Applications for residence...

Safety concerns in UK immigration detention centres
By Richmond Chambers -

A Freedom of Information request submitted to the Home Office has revealed that inmates within UK immigration detention centres are being admitted to hospital at the rate of almost one per day. This has...

sparked fresh concern over the safety of those who have fallen foul of UK immigration laws and found themselves being held in an immigration detention centre. These detainees are often at their most vulnerable, with...

Chancellor's Spring Statement indicates greater flexibility for PhD level migrants
By Richmond Chambers -

The Spring Statement from Chancellor Philip Hammond on 13 March 2019 provides good indications that UK visa Tier 2 worker applications for jobs at PhD levels will be removed from the cap. Many experts feel this...

is a promising indication that the government are starting to address the current skills gap in the UK. What was announced about Tier 2 visas in the Spring Statement? The Chancellor’s statement made it...

UK to pay compensation to victims of Windrush scandal
By Richmond Chambers -

The Home Secretary, Sajid Javid has announced that the UK will pay up to £200 million in compensation to victims of the Windrush scandal. A fund has been established to cover these compensation payments to those...

who were mistakenly classed as illegal immigrants despite being long-standing British citizens. The compensation will serve, in some small way to right the wrongs that victims of the Windrush generation...
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