On 26 February 2015 The Home Office put forward a new statement of changes in immigration rules to Parliament. The main changes will be the following ones: <\/p>\n

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• Consolidate and clarify the Immigration Rules for visitors, by streamlining 15 visitor routes down to four: visitor (standard); visitor for marriage or civil partnership; visitor for permitted paid engagements and transit visitor;<\/li>\n
• Introduction a requirement for prospective Tier 1 (Investor) Migrants to open a UK-regulated investment account before making an initial application;<\/li>\n
• Applying a \u201cgenuine entrepreneur\u201d test to Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) extension and indefinite leave to remain applications;<\/li>\n
• Showing the source of money for Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) visa applicants if the money was not in their account for three months;<\/li>\n
• Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) applicants must include their business plan for initial applications;<\/li>\n
• Enable caseworkers to require persons present in the UK with limited leave to provide evidence and\/or attend an interview in order to demonstrate that they continue to meet the requirements of the Immigration Rules;<\/li>\n
• Ensure that Overseas Domestic Workers have contracts that meet UK employment laws and that they will be paid in accordance with the National Minimum Wage Regulations;<\/li>\n
• Closing the Tier 1 (General) category for extension applications, and restrict the ability of Tier 1 (General) Migrants to switch into the Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) category.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  On 26 February 2015 The Home Office put forward a new statement of changes in immigration rules to Parliament. The main changes will be the following ones: Consolidate and clarify the Immigration Rules for visitors, by streamlining 15 visitor routes down to four: visitor (standard); visitor for marriage or civil partnership; visitor for permitted paid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esconsultancy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esconsultancy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esconsultancy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esconsultancy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esconsultancy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esconsultancy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esconsultancy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esconsultancy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esconsultancy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}