Category: UK Points Based Visas

Visas, Immigration & Nationality

Recent Changes with the Immigration Rules

Starting from 11 July 2014, the following changes to the Immigration Rules will be enforced. Switching from Tier 4 Student/Other Study Category  to Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) Students can only switch to Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) if they have access to £50,000 funding to invest in business from the following sources: one or more UK Entrepreneurial seed…
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Resident Labour Market Test Exemptions

As there has been some uncertainty regarding the Resident Labour Market test, please see below instances where the rest does NOT apply. Tier 2 employers can offer a job to some people without having to meet all of the provisions of the resident labour market test. This applies to you if you fall into one of the…
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Passport and Biometric Residence Permit are back

For all applying for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) under the Tier 2 Points-Based System (PBS) in the UK will receive their passports, and their Biometric Residence Permits (BRP), back before a decision has been made on their application under a new service launched yesterday, 6 May 2014. The passport return service working days within 7 – 10 days…
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Urgent restricted certificates of sponsorship

If you have to request a restricted certificate of sponsorship (COS) urgently between 6 March and 16 April, you must submit an application and request exceptional consideration. To do this you must email the reasons for exceptional consideration to info@immigrationandmigration.com Attention, the request for exceptional consideration must be made on the same day that you submit your application or…
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The Chinese Market & Hong Kong

The Office of National Statistics reveal that China now provides the biggest total number of immigrants to the UK, recent figures shows that last year were 40,000 people. We can’t forget that China belongs to the BRIC countries (BRIC is the acronym to the countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China which are all considered…
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