Category: UK Points Based Visas

Visas, Immigration & Nationality

Know your Place of Study: Inner London or Outer London?

Where you will be studying in the UK requires different amounts of maintenance funds or costs of living allowance. Effective from 14 November 2015, UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) did not only increase the maintenance fund but have also widened the areas considered as inner London. The following living costs are required: Inner London: £1,265 per…
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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.

How applicants pay the health surcharge is been improved by UK Visas and Immigration

A new integrated process is developed and uses information from an immigration application to decide whether a customer needs to pay the surcharge and how much they must pay. Applicants will now only need to input personal details once, if a surcharge reference is needed; making the overall process quicker, easier and errors less unlikely…
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