New guidance has been provided to the Home Office Staff on deciding applications from self-employed Turkish business persons who wish to apply for an extension of stay in the UK to self-establish in b...
Coronavirus Immigration Update:
The Home Office have published additional guidance in respect of further immigration concessions which will be implemented during this pandemic. Due to global travel restrictions, the Home Office do...
Coronavirus – Immigration Implications
Global outbreak affecting global migration: what does this mean for foreign nationals in the United Kingdom? 250,000 people have so far been infected by the Coronavirus with more than 10,000 deaths ar...
Our Visa advice ahead of and after Brexit Day on 31 January 2020
After 31 January 2020, the UK is set to enter into an 11 month transition period, until 31 December 2020. This means the UK will continue to follow EU rules until at least 31 December 2020. Jumping of...
Adult Dependent Relatives Rules may seem unamendable, unbeatable, unchallengeable but they certainly aren’t unachievable!
Appendix FM was implemented on 9th July 2012 and imposed what are widely regarded as extremely restrictive requirements for bringing Adult Dependent Relatives (ADRs) to the UK. The impact of these rul...
EEA citizens living and working in the UK – the latest
Brexit Day is 31 October 2019. We don’t know if we will leave then with a Deal or with NoDeal. 3 years and 4 months of comings and goings, of rantings and ravings since the Referendum result and sti...
Innovator and Start up Visas – deader than the Monty Python parrot?
The Government, in its wisdom, through the Home Office, replaced the Tier 1 Entrepreneur visa on 29 March 2019 with 2 new visas called the Start Up vis and the Innovator visa. They did this to tighten...
New Immigration rules for Entrepreneurs
Summary Impact of Changes On 29 March 2019 both the Tier 1 (Graduate Entrepreneur) and the Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) route will be scrapped and replaced by “Start Up” and “Innovator” visas. These ...
Tier 1 Investor Visa Not Suspended
The tier 1 Investor visa, which provides a fast track route to settlement for people willing to invest at least 2 million in the UK for a few years, was to be suspended from midnight 6 December 2018 u...
EU mobility rights within the EU of non-EEA nationals
Since the concept of EU citizenship was introduced in 1993 with the Maastricht Treaty, the European Union has come a long way in protecting the rights of EU citizens who exercise free movement to live...