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Endorsing Bodies Announced: Tier 1 Innovator and Start-up Visas
By Dr. Catherine Taroni - Immigration Barrister

The Innovator visa and Start-up visa routes opened today, 29th March 2019.   As outlined here, the process requires an endorsement by an endorsing body.   Here we look at the current list of endorsing bodies,...

 as well the role of endorsing bodies in applications for Innovator and Start-up visas. Who are the Innovator / Start-up endorsing bodies? The Innovator and Start-up endorsing bodies are currently: The...

A Guide to the UK Fiancé(e) Visa
By Georgina Griggs - Immigration Barrister

The fiancé(e) visa allows British citizens and those with indefinite leave to remain to bring their fiancé(e) to the UK in order to get married. Fiancé(e) visa applications are considered under paragraph EC-P...

 of Appendix FM of the Immigration Rules. Requirements for a fiancé(e) visa In order to make an application for entry clearance as a partner (including fiancé(e)s), the applicant: Must be outside the UK...

Innovator Visa Guidance: Investment Funds & Endorsement
By Paul Richmond - Managing Partner

The Innovator visa category is for non-EEA nationals who are experienced businesspersons seeking to establish a business in the UK.  With the Innovator visa category due to open on 29 March 2019, but the Innovator...

 Visa Policy Guidance not yet published, we thought we’d shed some light on the investment funds and endorsement requirements of the new Innovator visa. Do I need to have access to £50,000? You will...

Tech Experts: How to Apply under Tier 1 Exceptional Talent
By Stefania Patuto - Immigration Barrister

There are three main steps to follow when applying for a Tier 1 (Exceptional Talent) visa as a leader or potential leader in the digital technology sector: You must first apply to the Home Office for endorsement...

 by Tech Nation. The Home Office will inform Tech Nation when you have completed this step; You must complete the Tech Nation Visa application form and provide a number of documents as evidence of your...

Challenging an Entrepreneur refusal on the basis of genuineness
By Gillian McCall - Barrister Partner

Since 2013, Entrepreneur applications have been subject to an assessment of genuineness: whether the applicant is genuine in their intention to run or start a business in the UK. This assessment is done subjectively,...

 by the decision-maker. In relation to the first application to enter the category, whether this is in the UK or an application for Entry Clearance, the Home Office will need to be satisfied that: (i)...

The refugee family reunification bill
By Richmond Chambers -

MPs last week called on the home secretary Sajid Javid to pass the bill for refugee family reunification. The bill, which would relax some of the obstructive rules around family reunification, has been waiting...

 to pass into law for a year. What does the law say about refugee family reunification at the moment? Currently, UK immigration rules prevent adult refugees from submitting applications for parents,...

Visa and deportation fears for Commonwealth military veterans
By Richmond Chambers -

Every year several hundred Commonwealth personnel are discharged from the British armed forces and immediately become subject to UK immigration controls (from which they have been exempt whilst serving). Any individual...

 who has served in the British military for more than four years can apply for indefinite leave to remain afterwards, but the process is made extremely challenging by the fact that it is currently not...

Sponsor Compliance Visits - What To Expect?
By Richmond Chambers -

The Home Office may undertake a sponsor compliance visit in order to assess an organisation once it has submitted a sponsor licence application. They may also visit once a sponsor licence has been granted in order...

 to ensure that the organisation is maintaining its sponsorship duties.  Any change in circumstances may also warrant a Home Office visit.  This includes, but is not limited to: A change of the company...

High Court blocks policy on removing immigrants without warning
By Richmond Chambers -

Dozens of people have been given a reprieve from being forced to leave the UK after the High Court ordered a suspension of the removal policy used by the Home Office following a challenge by an immigration charity. Campaign...

 group Medical Justice applied for an interim injunction to bring a halt to the “removals window”, a controversial deportation policy which enables the Home Office to refuse a migrant’s case...

How to switch from a Tier 1 Graduate Entrepreneur to a Start-up Visa
By Richmond Chambers -

If you are in the UK as a Tier 1 (Graduate Entrepreneur) Migrant you might be asking yourself what to do next. You might be on your first year and have intended to extend for a second year, or you might...

 have put together those £50,000 of investment funds and were planning to switch into the Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) category.  Don’t worry—you still have options, including the new Start-up visa. What are the...

A Guide to the Innovator visa
By Gillian McCall - Barrister Partner

On 7 March 2019, the Home Office announced the closure of the Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) visa category and introduced a new immigration category: the Innovator visa. This announcement has been much anticipated, since...

 the Home Office indicated it intended to take this step back at the end of last year (also many of us have been awaiting an overhaul since the MAC review in 2015), but this is the first opportunity we have...

Requirements for the new Innovator & Start-Up Visas
By Richmond Chambers -

The much anticipated Statement of Changes including for Entrepreneurs and Investors is hot off the press today. Near the end of the 296 pages, you will find the new Appendix W, which contains the rules for “Workers”....

 The Start-up visa and Innovator visa categories will be introduced on 29 March 2019. According to the Introduction to that Appendix, “It is anticipated that other categories for workers will be...
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