A UK tourist visa is a term under the UK standard visitor visa category that allows you to visit the UK for tourism and leisure. The UK standard visitor visa is a short-term visa valid for up to 6 months only. There are other purposes as well that are covered by a standard visitor visa. They include visiting the UK for short-term study, visiting your friends or family living here, short- term recreational courses, short-term business activities, medical treatment, and other permitted activities.
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A Home Office compliance visit is done to ensure whether an approved or prospective sponsor is or will be able to adhere to their sponsor’s duties and UK immigration law. An approved sponsor is a UK-based company or organisation that holds a valid sponsorship licence. A sponsor licence is required to hire foreign workers or international students. But in order to keep hiring foreign workers, sponsoring international students, and maintain a UK sponsor licence, an organization must comply with it
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Salary thresholds for skilled workers are being raised from existing levels. This is in line with objective to curb the inward immigration stated in the White Paper released in May 2025. Further, STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN IMMIGRATION RULES (HC 997), released on 1 July 2025, state the exact changes in the salary threshold for occupations on the UK skilled worker route.
The new salary threshold will be effective for CoS (Certificate of Sponsorship) issued on or after 22 July 2025.
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The Temporary Shortage Occupation List is transitioning from the Immigration Shortage List, which will soon be abolished. The ISL (Immigration Shortage List), which was introduced in April 2024, replacing the SOC (Shortage Occupation List), is a list of jobs for skilled worker visas. These are jobs for which there is a shortage of local labour in the UK. The MAC (Migration Advisory Committee) is the body that identifies which occupations have a labour shortage and hence recommends occupations th
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Sponsor licence holders must comply with their sponsor’s duties, one of which is to retain the relevant documents listed in Appendix D. If a sponsor fails to comply with their record-keeping duties, their sponsor licence may be downgraded, suspended, or even revoked. Any negative change in the sponsor licence can impact the employees whom that employer has sponsored. For example, their leave to remain may be curtailed. This can operationally disrupt, cost, and damage the organisation’s reputatio
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Proving knowledge of the English language requirements is a key requirement for those applying for a UK family visa. When you apply for a family visa as a partner or parent, you have to meet certain eligibility requirements that include meeting the English language requirement. The knowledge of English is tested to ensure the applicants can effectively communicate in English and they can easily integrate into British society, as Britain is an English-speaking country.
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Visa refusals happen due to several reasons. You should be careful before and when you are applying for a UK visa or a visa for any other country. It is in your best interest that you take legal help before applying for a visa. This may completely eliminate or significantly reduce the chances of your visa being refused. All this is necessary because a visa refusal may impact your future UK visa applications minimally or significantly. You may face more scrutiny on future UK visa applications or
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Appendix HM Armed Forces, published in April 2024, sets out the immigration rules for HM Armed Forces personnel and HM Armed Forces service leaver personnel and their family members. It replaced the Appendix Armed Forces on 11 April 2024.
In Appendix HM Armed Forces, HM (His Majesty’s) Armed Forces means regular service personnel in the Royal Navy, the Royal Marines, the Army (including the Brigade of Gurkhas), and the Royal Air Force and does not include the Reserve forces.
References to
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The UK family visa is an umbrella category. This covers visas based on various types of relationships. People outside the UK apply for a UK family visa based on close family relationships with a person in the UK who is either a British citizen or has settled status in the UK. Closed relatives include spouse/civil partner, parent, son, and daughter. You can apply for a family visa if you have a close relative in the UK and you want to join them. The various visas that fall under the UK family cat
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Criminal records may not necessarily be a reason for refusal of your ILR and citizenship applications, but they may definitely impact both applications. Hence, you must disclose your criminal record to the UKVI in the first place. Honesty is the best policy.
Indefinite leave to remain and becoming British citizens are both in a way privilege the United Kingdom offers for people who have been in the UK for a long time and meet the relevant requirements of the Immigration Rules or the British N
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