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Settlement on the Hong Kong BN(O) Visa Route
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The Hong Kong British National (Overseas) visa route has attracted a great amount of attention over the past year. According to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s Six-Monthly Report on Hong Kong,...

88,000 people had applied for visas under the scheme. Of those applications, 76,176 visas have been granted. According to a further study conducted by the University of Oxford’s Migration Observatory,...

Apply for a Health & Care Worker Sponsor Licence
By Dr. Catherine Taroni - Immigration Barrister

In order to obtain a sponsor licence to bring sponsored healthcare workers to the UK, there has to be a company with a sponsor licence and the workers must be sponsored to work for that company.    As has been...

widely publicised, the healthcare workers route has been expanded – further details are available in our earlier post here. Purpose of the Healthcare Worker Route The skilled worker route is to enable...

Dual Citizens of the EU and the UK and Comprehensive Sickness Insurance
By Richmond Chambers -

On 1 February 2022, the government agreed to amend the Immigration Rules to end the unfairness faced by EU citizens who successfully obtained British citizenship, despite a historic lack of Comprehensive Sickness...

Insurance, only to find that they were unable to sponsor family members to join them under the EU Settlement Scheme. Who does this Immigration Rules change affect? The amendment relates to dual nationals of...

How to extend your sole representative of an overseas business visa
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If you are reading this, and you are a sole representative looking to extend, you will likely already have met the first criteria by entering the UK with valid UK entry clearance as a sole representative of...

an overseas business. Your next question should be, “How do I make sure that I am ready to extend in 3 years’ time?” The Overseas Business must continue to… Have its headquarters and principal place...

Healthcare Worker Visa: Calculating Salary Rates
By Georgina Griggs - Immigration Barrister

Employers seeking to sponsor migrants under the Skilled Worker route’s Health and Care Worker Visa must be paid an appropriate salary for their position. Their salary must be equal to, or exceed, the...

minimum salary requirements as set out in Appendix Skilled Worker and Appendix Skilled Occupations to the Immigration Rules. For healthcare workers, these are calculated differently to other occupation codes. This...

Immigration Health Surcharge - What Is It and Who Needs to Pay?
By Richmond Chambers -

The majority of UK visa applicants will be required to pay the Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS) on top of their application fees. If you are outside of the UK, and applying for limited leave to remain in the UK...

for more than 6 months, you will need to pay the Immigration Health Surcharge fee unless you fall into one of few exceptions. If you are applying for a visa from within the UK, you will be required to pay...

Ukraine: Home Office Temporary Visa Concessions
By Paul Richmond - Managing Partner

In response to the deteriorating situation in Ukraine, the Home Office has introduced a temporary visa concession for non-British family members of British nationals who usually live in Ukraine, as well as concessions...

for Ukrainians in Ukraine and in the UK. Visa Concession for Family Members of British Citizens in Ukraine Non-British family members of British nationals who usually live in Ukraine can now apply for...

New Immigration Concessions for Afghan Nationals
By Alexandra Pease - Barrister Partner

In our Knowledge Centre we have recently explored the Afghan Citizens’ Resettlement Scheme (“ACRS”) which opened on 6 January 2022.  The Concessions to the Immigration Rules for Afghan nationals for...

work and study routes, Version 1.0 was published on 17 January 2022 and provides new guidance for Afghan citizens who are already in the UK on study or work routes.  The concession also applies to dependants. ...

Child Student Visa Application Guide
By Richmond Chambers -

The Child Student visa route is for students between the ages of 4 and 17 who wish to study at a UK independent school. A student wishing to use this route should have already obtained a place at a suitable school...

and will need to score points for study and finances under the Immigration Rules. In this article we will explore who can apply in the Child Student visa route and what is required by the Child Student...

Residence requirements for Partners
By Richmond Chambers -

Unlike most visa routes, partner visas do not have any specific residence requirements or prescribed limits on the number of days of absences from the UK.  However, despite the absence of a residence requirement...

for partners, there are some factors to be aware of to ensure that applications for further leave to remain and indefinite leave to remain will be successful.  Partner applications require the applicant...

Immigration Judicial Review: The Process
By Georgina Griggs - Immigration Barrister

Please note that this is the final blog in a three-part series. You may wish to refer to the first blog, Judicial review: The basics and Preliminary steps for immigration judicial review  before reading...

this. Final checks before lodging a judicial review As discussed in the previous blog, judicial review is a remedy of last resort. Therefore, all other avenues of relief must haves been explored and...

Comprehensive Sickness Insurance and EU Nationals - 10 FAQs
By Geraldine Peterson - Immigration Barrister

In this post we look at the Comprehensive Sickness Insurance (CSI) requirements for EU Nationals.  We answer 10 frequently asked questions, including: What is Comprehensive sickness insurance and who needs to...

have Comprehensive sickness insurance cover? 1. Who needs to have Comprehensive Sickness Insurance? European nationals who are or were present in the UK as students or self-sufficient persons under the...
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