Immigration News

The UK government’s recent announcement on its ‘five-point plan’ for legal migration has made various changes to UK immigration which is aimed to curb net migration to the UK. The main changes are below. - Minimum salary requirement for a
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Student visa route changes (dependants and switching) The changes relating to the Student route, and consequential changes to work routes, came into effect at 15:00 on 17 July 2023. The changes in relation to dependants will only apply to those
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The Home Office put forward a new Statement of changes to the immigration rules to Parliament. The major changes and amendments are below: - Replacing the Innovator visa and suspending the start up visa categories with the new Innovator Founder
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In 2022 in total there were around 104.9 million passenger arrivals from overseas to the UK and 2,836,490 visas were issued. The most visas that were issued were tourist visas (49%), student visas (22%) and work related visas (15%). In
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The new scheme allows Ukrainian nationals and their family members to come to the UK to live and work if they have a sponsor (it could be an individual, a charity or private company) who registered with the Home Office
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16 March 2022. The Home Office has introduced new visa routes which will bring more highly skilled migrants to the UK. The new visa types are the followings: Scale up visa route; High Potential Individual (HPI) route; and Global Business
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11 March 2022 Under the new Ukraine Family Scheme Visa family members of British citizens and people settled in the UK can bring their family members to the UK. In order to apply for the Ukraine Family Scheme it is
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February 2022. Due to current ongoing war in Ukraine, the UK Government introduced some measures to support family members of British citizens in Ukraine and Ukrainians in Ukraine and the UK. Main points are the followings: Non British family members
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This is advice for visa applicants in the UK, outside of the UK and British nationals overseas who need to apply for a passport affected by travel restrictions associated with coronavirus. If you’re in the UK and your leave expires
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From 1 January 2021 the Home Office will introduce the new United Kingdom’s Points-Based System. Skilled workers (Tier 2 General or previously known as a work permit visa) The points-based system will provide simple, effective and flexible arrangements for skilled
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