Tier 2 A rated sponsors would benefit from a new Priority Change of Circumstance Service introduced by UK Immigration. Launched in 7 November, 2016, the service enables Tier 2 sponsor companies to submit an application for four types of change of circumstance requests for faster consideration, including: In year, Unrestricted Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) allocation. [...]
Theresa May visited India in Nov 2016 accompanied by a large business delegation. The offensive was to secure trade deals to bolster trade post Brexit. To put things in perspective India is the third biggest investor in the UK, the second biggest creator of private sector jobs in the UK and the UK is the [...]
The Home Office has issued new guidance on the CoS start date that Tier 2 sponsors need to take in to account when considering the start date for employment in the UK for Tier 2 employees. The start date given on the CoS must be the date that the migrant employee will start working for [...]
1) What You Need to Know About Immigration Skills Charge We had reported last year of the changes that the UK government would introduce for Tier 2 visas (Read: UK Government announces changes to Tier 2 program from April 2017). The Govt. has announced that pending Parliamentary Approval Immigration Skills Charge will apply from [...]
UK Immigration law has always been an evolving field, there have been several changes to UK Immigration rules. 2016 was no different, if the referendum for Brexit got the EU Nationals scurrying to secure their status with a Registration Certificate and applying for Residence Card for their non EU spouses. The UK government based on [...]
In a move designed to benefit the UK and affect thousands of applicants, the UK has announced changes to UK visa fee which is an increase in the visa fees from 18 March 2016 on wards. Tier 4 student visas and Tier 2 work visas will see an increase of about 2%, as will the [...]
Initial feedback from the business bodies representing small and medium businesses on the Home Office changes to the Tier 2 programs reveal that the changes are likely to adversely impact small and medium businesses. The reforms to the UK Tier 2 visa for skilled immigration were announced by the government, following a review by the [...]
A recent Business Population Estimates 2015 release shows that the number of private sector businesses in the UK has hit a new record of 5.4 million. record 5.4 million private sector businesses in the UK there are over 900,000 more businesses now than in 2010 35,000 more businesses are employing people than last year small [...]
A cap introduced on Tier 2 visas by the Home Office was reached for the first time in June, resulting in 1,329 visa applications being rejected. A freedom of information request by technology publication Techworld showed that after the cap of 1,650 was hit, the UK authorities rejected applications for the first time since it [...]