Category: UK Visa News

Visas, Immigration & Nationality

Post-Brexit: British Holidaymakers Denied Flight Due to Wrong Passport Validity Advice

As the United Kingdom is no longer part of the European Union (EU), British holidaymakers need to follow EU travel rules and regulations for third-country nationals. One of the UK’s biggest holiday companies has apologised after wrongly turning away holidaymakers from Leeds Bradford airport. Jet2 has revised its post-Brexit passport procedures after mistakenly acting on…
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Germany Set to Ease Travel Restrictions for UK and Others

The German government will soften coronavirus travel rules for travellers from Britain along with four other countries.  Travellers from the UK to Germany will face softer quarantine restrictions, after altered recommendations from the German public health agency, the Robert Koch Institute published on 5 July.  The restrictions for the UK, along with Portugal, Russia, India…
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UK Graduate Route: New UK Post-Study Work Visa Officially Launched

The UK post-study work visa was officially launched on 1 July 2021. The then UK Home Secretary, Priti Patel, announced the launching of the program via Twitter: The new Graduate Immigration route I’ve launched today will keep the best and brightest international talent contributing to the UK. This is part of our new points-based immigration…
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Post Brexit: Call to Relax Post-Brexit UK Immigration Rules

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has urged the UK government to ease post-Brexit UK immigration rules to help companies facing staff shortages recruit more workers from overseas. The CBI called on the government to ‘immediately update its Shortage Occupation List (SOL) to include more jobs that employers find it difficult to hire for. British…
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EU Members Place Restrictions on British Travellers

Just as the British government announced that several more destinations are added on the quarantine-free green list starting 30 June, British travellers themselves have been handed a number of new restrictions by various EU member states.  Calls for British travellers to be placed into quarantine echo around the bloc as the rising case numbers of…
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