Category: Europe

Visas, Immigration & Nationality

Theresa May on Immigration Reform

Theresa May on Immigration Reform

Theresa May addressed immigration reform in her speech to the Conservative party conference on 06 October 2015. The home secretary said that high numbers of immigrants were not in the national interest. However, her immigration speech was called “dangerous and factually wrong” in The Telegraph which is looking at whether her statements were actually true:…
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Syria Refugee

Cameron’s Support for Syrian Refugees

On 7 September our Prime Minister in his statement to the House of Commons proposed that the UK should resettle up to 20,000 Syrians (https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/syria-refugees-and-counter-terrorism-prime-ministers-statement). David Cameron announced the increase of the UK aid budget with a further £100 million, which will go to Syria, Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon. He also discussed the problems Lebanon…
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Things You Need To Know About Changes in UK Immigration Rules

Statement of Changes in UK Immigration rules HC 297, published on 13 July 2015, were not very good news, particularly for international students. It is quite obvious that main changes intend to reduce numbers of applications in order to reduce net migration. Tier 4 International Students New students applying to study at publicly-funded further education colleges will no longer have…
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Overseas Criminal Record Certificate

Why Overseas Criminal Record Certificate Req is not scary at all?

From 1 September 2015 a criminal record certificate must be shown by overseas applicants when applying for Tier 1 Investor and Tier 1 Entrepreneur visas in the UK. Increasingly, Criminal Record Checks are becoming common worldwide and for UK immigration laws. You might remember that in April 2015, Gov.UK introduced a new rule to require…
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Students: Register of licensed sponsors

This document lists Tier 4 sponsors. It includes information about the category of students they’re licensed to sponsor and their sponsorship rating. List of organisations licensed to sponsor students under Tier 4. You can visit iam Tier 4 Register of Sponsors 30:06:2015 to know more about it.