The Home Office recently released an updated version of ‘Continuous Residence’ guidance to address absences under the 10-year Long Residence applications. Essentially, the guidance clarified that any absences from the UK that started before 11th April 2024 would be considered towards a limit of 184 days in any single absence and not more than 548 […]
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Home Secretary Orders MAC review of IT and Engineering Sectors
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has written to the Chair of the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to commission a review of the IT and engineering sectors’ relationship to international recruitment. The MAC has been asked to review key occupations in the Information Technology and Telecommunications and Engineering Professions and understand the reliance on international recruitment. The […]
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Coronavirus (COVID-19): Visa Applications
In these times of changing restrictions many visa applicants will be wondering what this would mean for their applications. The position is different depending on whether the application is made inside or outside the UK. For those in the UK, the position was improved by concessions made by the Home Office. During the first lockdown […]
Immigration: UK Government issues guidance for EU Nationals in the event of No-Deal Brexit
On Monday 28th January 2019, the UK Government published guidance regarding immigration for EU Nationals in the event that the UK leaves the EU on 29th March 2019 with no deal. […]
Privacy Shield Agreement Approved
The EU-U.S. Privacy Shield was announced by the European Commission and U.S. Department of Commerce as a replacement for the Safe Harbor Agreement. […]
Significant changes to Tier 2 skilled workers visa
The Immigration Minister has proposed some changes to Tier 2 of the Points Based System, which will start to be introduced later in 2016 and will all be in force by April 2017. […]
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Exceptional talent in Tech industry can now apply for UK visas in groups
From today, 12 November 2015, technology businesses in the UK can recruit teams of exceptional talent from outside the EU in groups of five. This forms part of the Tech Nation Visa Scheme, an evolution of the current Tier 1 Exceptional Talent scheme, introduced by Tech City to help attract high calibre tech talent to the UK. […]
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UK residence not broken despite taxpayer living abroad for many years
A UK taxpayer living principally in Spain was found to have maintained UK residence and closer links to the UK than to Spain. […]
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Changes to rules on biometric residence permits announced by UK Border Agency
The UK Border Agency (“UKBA”) has announced changes to their rules regarding biometric residence permits (‘BRPs’) which will be implemented from 29 February 2012. […]
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Illegal working – naming and shaming
The UK Border Agency (‘UKBA’) has announced that it will publish quarterly reports which will name employers who receive 2 or more penalties for employing illegal workers. […]