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Approved English test

UK Visa English Tests Now at Weekends

You need to provide the results of an English test in order to apply for the following types of visa to stay or to move to the UK: From 6 April 2015 only 2 providers of the English tests were approved by the UKVI. It has now grown to 5, with 4 for in-country applications…
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Health Workers

Immigrant Health Workers in the UK

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)  has found that Britain relies more heavily on foreign health workers than any other major EU nation. Its International Migration Outlook 2015 revealed that more than a third of NHS doctors – 35.4 per cent – were born overseas, compared with just 5 per cent in Italy, 10.7…
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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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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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Why Skilled nurses could be forced to leave UK under migrant salary rules?

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) union has warned that up to 3,365 foreign nurses could be forced to return home in 2017 under changes to immigration rules. People from outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) will have to leave the UK after six years if they are not earning at least £35,000 (the…
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