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...

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 ...

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...

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...

After much deliberation and anticipation, the UK government has now reached an agreement with the European Union on the rights of EU citizens leading up to and following Brexit. An implementation peri...

The UK digital technology sector is thriving, which is why ‘access to exceptional talent across the world is vitally important’, as proclaimed by Home Secretary Amber Rudd. This has certainly been...

The immigration changes announced by the Home Office on Friday 15 June include for the following • Creation of a new settlement route for Turkish ECAA business persons, workers and their family memb...

The government used London Tech Week to announce a new Start Up Entrepreneur visa. The new visa class will replace one that exists solely for graduates and the Home Office promised it will make the vi...

When Theresa May introduced the 20,700 annual limit in April 2011 on the number of tier 2 general visas to be granted to highly skilled migrants, I wonder how many people thought that figure would not...