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Home Office announces new UK Startup Visa for Entrepreneurs
By Richmond Chambers -

During London Tech Week, Home Secretary Sajid Javid announced a new startup visa route, stating that the new visa is “for people wanting to start a business in the UK. This will help to ensure we continue to...

 attract the best global talent and maintain the UK’s position as a world-leading destination for innovation and entrepreneurs”. The avant garde move, as announced, is simply to open a route, that was...

What is the Home Office’s ‘hostile environment’?
By Richmond Chambers -

The United Kingdom has traditionally been a welcoming country, relishing the influx of other cultures, languages and cuisines.  More recently however, spurred on by the widely held misconception that too many...

 immigrants are placing the system under strain, the currently ruling Conservatives have introduced their so-called ‘hostile environment’ policy to discourage people who have immigrated illegally from...

Pressure grows for devolved control over UK immigration policy
By Richmond Chambers -

Amidst recent tightening of UK borders and a regular stream of negative publicity around cases of people denied entry to this country, pressure is growing for separate immigration rules for each UK nation and region. The...

 case for devolved control over immigration policy has become a key focus for Nicola Sturgeon’s Scottish government. Sturgeon has led the calls for the UK to pursue such an approach post-Brexit,...

The Job Creation Requirement - Less Than 12 Months Employment
By Alex Papasotiriou - Immigration Barrister

The job creation requirement for non-initial Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) applications requires that the applicant’s business has created the equivalent of at least 2 new full time jobs for settled workers. The tricky...

 part is that the jobs must have existed for at least 12 months during the applicant’s most recent grant of leave as a Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) Migrant. This means an applicant will be unable to successfully...

EU nationals post Brexit - What's the latest?
By Richmond Chambers -

According to the Office of National Statistics, between January and March 2018, there were 2.29 million EU nationals working in the UK, which was down 28,000 on last year. Could this be as a result of the fear and...

 confusion around what will happen to EU nationals post Brexit? Following pressure, the government have issued some guidelines about plans for EU nationals once the UK officially leaves the European Union,...

Your Guide To The Tier 1 Entrepreneur Job Creation Requirement
By Richmond Chambers -

When you come to make your extension or indefinite leave to remain application in the Tier 1 Entrepreneur category, you will need to satisfy a job creation requirement.  The Immigration Rules require that you must...

 have created the equivalent of at least two new full time jobs for persons settled in the UK. These jobs must have existed for at least 12 months during the period for which your latest leave as a Tier 1...

Romanians become the second most common non-UK nationality
By Richmond Chambers -

Recently published official figures now put Romanian as the second-most-common non-British nationality in the UK. The Office for National Statistics reported this month that people from the Eastern European nation...

 now account for more nationals in this country than Ireland or India. The number of Romanians living in the UK in 2017 jumped 25% on the previous year as the numbers coming into the UK show no sign of...

Richmond Chambers wins ABS Innovation Award at Legal Week Innovation Awards 2018
By Richmond Chambers -

We are delighted to announce that Richmond Chambers has won the ABS Innovation Award at the Legal Week Innovation Awards 2018. Hosted by Legal Week, the awards, now in their fourth year, celebrate the most...

 pioneering individuals, firms and legal services providers in the UK legal sector. The ABS Innovation award seeks to uncover innovation in the delivery of legal services by Alternative Business...

A Guide To The £50,000 Route For Tier 1 Entrepreneur Start-Ups
By Richmond Chambers -

The UK Immigration Rules make provision for entrepreneurs with high growth potential businesses to apply to come to, or remain in, the UK under the Tier 1 Entrepreneur visa category, where they have received at...

 least £50,000 in funding from a registered venture capital firm, a Department for International Trade (DIT) seed funding competition, a UK Government Department or a Devolved Government Department. (1) UK...

Roman Abramovich and the Tier 1 UK Investor Visa
By Richmond Chambers -

There’s been a lot of news coverage recently surrounding Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich and his Tier 1 Investor Visa, with its expiry causing his absence at the FA Cup Final. Many people aren’t...

 quite sure what this type of Visa is, and why Roman Abramovich is facing delays in renewing. What is a Tier 1 UK Investor Visa? A Tier 1 UK Investor Visa is geared towards high-level investment in the UK,...

UK Tier 1 Investor Visa Sees 28% Year-On-Year Growth
By Paul Richmond - Managing Partner

Figures released by the Home Office today reveal that a total of 96 Tier 1 Investor visas were issued by UK Visas & Immigration during the period from 1 January to 31 March 2018. This represents an 18.5% increase...

 in successful Tier 1 Investor visa applications compared with the previous quarter and a 28% increase on the number of Investor visas approved during the same period in 2017. Citizens of China and its...

Adult Dependent Relatives - Ribeli v Entry Clearance Officer, Pretoria
By Alexandra Pease - Barrister Partner

In an earlier blog post we examined the Immigration rules relating to adult dependent relatives which were introduced in July 2012.   The position was recently examined in the decision of Ribeli v Entry Clearance...

 Officer, Pretoria [2018] EWCA Civ 611. This was an appeal from a decision of the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) dated 20 January 2016, which was itself an appeal by the Respondent Entry...
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