Category: UK Points Based Visas

Visas, Immigration & Nationality

UK TIER 1 INVESTOR VISA REQUIREMENT £2M

In November 2014, we couldn’t believe when we read that, the minimum investment threshold on Tier 1 UK Investor has been raised from £1 million to £2 million.                      We thought that was a barrier to decrease investment in UK but is the contrary. The fact is…
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More Protection to Students at Private Providers

Great news on Education, specially for students at private providers. In resume, the plan allows students at private providers in receipt of Student Loans Company funding the right to take unresolved complaints to the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education (OIA). Like this, they will have the same rights as students at publicly-funded institutions.…
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Students protest

<<Police have made 11 arrests after thousands of students marched through London protesting against education cuts, tuition fees and student debt.>>, BBC News online. Lets talk about the tuition fees: should they go up or should they go down? Well, aparently in England they should not go up surely because otherwise we wouldn’t have such…
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UK needs 500 nurses this 2014!

The UK needs Filipino nurses to replace its ageing nursing workforce. UK’s Centre for Workforce and the Royal College of Nursing said that 24% of its pool of registered nurses are set to retire in the next five years. According to Labour Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz, Philippines Overseas Labour Office had received and verified job orders…
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Immigration reforms

In July 2014, the Government introduced new powers to stop criminals in the UK using family life arguments to delay their deportation. This has enabled Home Office to remove over 100 criminals since July. From October 2014, criminals will no longer be able to appeal against the Home Office’s decision that their deportation is conducive…
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