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Entrepreneurs: investing funds prior to making your initial application
By Gillian McCall - Barrister Partner

Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) migrants are required to show that they have access to either £200,000 investment funds or £50,000 investment funds where they are switching from Tier 1 (Graduate Entrepreneur) or have funds...

 from a specific source such as a seed funding competition. There are strict specified evidence requirements to show that the funds are available and this can be met, in the case of someone applying for...

Companies warned that UK visas could face long delays
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UK companies have been told that they may face ‘significant’ time delays if they are currently seeking visas for non-EU skilled workers. The Home Office has stated that the 2,200 cap on non-EU...

 immigrants was reached early in April, despite it being awarded a disproportionate proportion of the annual quota 20,700. April is given an uneven number of visas due to it being the start of the financial year. In...

New home secretary gives pledge to Windrush generation
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Former home secretary Amber Rudd has recently been replaced by Sajid Javid following the immigration scandal that has rocked parliament. Javid has since pledged his commitment to “do right” by those of...

 the Windrush generation – immigrants who have been affected by the recent issues in proving their legal status as UK citizens. The new home secretary issued a statement on Monday April 30 where he...

Timing a Tier 1 Exceptional Talent Application to the Arts Council
By Gillian McCall - Barrister Partner

Places available for Tier 1 (Exceptional Talent) or (Exceptional Promise) applications were increased in early 2018 and the route has been made even more attractive for those able to meet the criteria for...

 talent (as opposed to promise) as the period of time for which you are required to spend in the category before applying to settle permanently in the UK has been reduced from five years to three years. You can find...

High Court and Court of Appeal criticise conduct of legal representatives
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The High Court and Court of Appeal have been very vocal over the past week in their criticism of legal representatives’ preparation of immigration cases. As I set out in detail in an earlier post, in Parveen...

 v SSHD [2018] EWCA Civ 932, promulgated on 25 April 2018, Underhill LJ in the Court of Appeal was critical of advisers who “devote their energies to setting out extracts from the case-law rather than to...

New Vacancy: Immigration Consultant / Immigration Associate (Chinese Mandarin)
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Job Title: Immigration Consultant / Immigration Associate (Chinese Mandarin) Term: Permanent, Full-Time Location: Covent Garden, London Salary: From £25,000 to £35,000 per annum based on experience + Benefits Richmond...

 Chambers LLP is a multi-award winning, innovative partnership of specialist immigration barristers and other immigration law professionals. Based in the heart of Covent Garden, our immigration...

Richmond Chambers at the London Legal Walk 2018
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Richmond Chambers will be taking part in the 10k London Legal Walk for justice on Monday 21 May 2018. Our team will join Lord Burnett the Lord Chief Justice, Lady Hale the President of the Supreme Court and thousands...

 of other judges, lawyers and legal representatives who are walking to raise funds for the London Legal Support Trust. The funds raised will go towards supporting free legal advice for the vulnerable...

Government issues guidance for undocumented Commonwealth citizens
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Following a statement to parliament on 23 April 2018 by Home Secretary Amber Rudd, and intense media scrutiny, the Home office has issued guidance to all Commonwealth citizens who are long-term residents of the...

 UK and are currently without appropriate documentation to prove their status. During the statement, Amber Rudd also announced the Home Office will be putting in place lasting measures for those of the...

Immigration Lawyers Must Focus On Facts Not Law, Says Court Of Appeal
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Yesterday the Court of Appeal considered the case of Parveen v The Secretary State for the Home Department [2018] EWCA Civ 932, on appeal from an oral permission hearing in the Upper Tribunal to judicially review...

 the decision. Underhill LJ’s final paragraph expressed the concern that permeates the entirety of his judgment and which is a careful warning for advisers and individuals alike: “this Court sees too...

Gove declares UK 'most immigrant friendly' country
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In the face of fears that the UK could virtually be shutting its doors to immigrants following Brexit, Michael Gove – the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs – has declared that...

 the country is more friendly to immigrants than any other country in the European Union. The Brexit supporter took to the BBC’s Today programme to staunchly deny the fact that communities had become...

Section 3C leave & Judicial review - Has it come to an end or not?
By Alex Papasotiriou - Immigration Barrister

In the current version (8.0) of her policy, titled “Leave extended by section 3C (and leave extended by section 3D in transitional cases)”, published on 6 March 2017, the Secretary of State for the Home Department...

 mentions on four occasions that “section 3C leave can exist only where it is a seamless continuation of leave, either extant leave or section 3C leave.” This is mentioned in the context of out of...

Government issues response to Home Affairs Committee report on immigration
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The UK government has issued its response to the Home Affairs Committee’s report ‘Immigration policy: basis for building consensus’. Following Brexit, the committee set about reshaping the debate...

 on immigration in light of the new landscape which lies ahead for the country. Among the recommendations of ‘Immigration policy: basis for building consensus’ were that; immigration policy...
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