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There is always light at the end of the tunnel! Tier 2 Migrants will no longer require to have been continuously employed throughout the 5-year qualifying period to be eligible for settlement. Previously, the rules stated only breaks of employment less than 60 days could be disregarded. However, since the Home Office is notoriously slow […]

Time to put your thinking caps on…. Another subtle but big change introduced has been how continuous residence will be counted over the 5 years period when applying for Indefinite leave to remain (‘ILR’). Before the changes, the 180-day absences were calculated in fixed blocks. However, absences are now to be counted on a rolling […]

11th January 2018, saw many changes introduced to the Immigration Rules. A change which will have huge impact on future applications for entry clearance, as well as extension applications by those who are already in the UK and need to extend their leave after 11 January 2018 is that the PBS dependant cannot be absent from the […]

Being a sponsor – A privilege that bites. High Court confirms companies to be held at strict compliance under Tier 2 In the recent case of R (Sri Prathinik Consulting Limited) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2017] EWHC 3204 (Admin), the Hight Court dismissed a company Judicial Review against revocation of licence reinforcing the […]

Sponsors that are not on automatic annual renewal will receive monthly e-mails asking sponsors to submit their requests for a CoS allocation. Please feel free to ignore these! Annual CoS allocations are now so limited that you can only request these if you can prove you will definitely need them. This means providing the name, […]

The recently introduced £200 premium request service for CoS is set to continue. Back in November last year the Home Office introduced a Tier 2 and 5 priority change of circumstance service which allows A rated sponsors to get their CoS allocated within five working days. This same service also applies to sponsors wishing to […]

The Home Office has just announced, at 11.13 on Tuesday 4th April new increased charges for 2017/18. Usually the Home Office provide a month or so’s notice of any intended visa fee increases to enable feedback prior to Parliamentary approval. But not this year! Nearly all increases are small – see the link below for […]

A raft of changes has been made to the ICT category over the past 12 months. The idea that the Tier 2 Intra-Company Transfer category enables international companies to transfer staff into the UK easily and inexpensively – on the basis that their stay here will be temporary – has changed somewhat and is certainly now a […]