In an attempt to bring more foreign talents and businesses to the country, the UK's government has introduced some new immigration routes in recent times. Global Business Mobility is one such new visa route. Global Business Mobility is one among various sponsored routes for overseas businesses seeking to establish their presence in the UK or to send their staff to the UK for specific business purposes. This new visa route has opened for applicants from 11 April 2022. On 15 March 2022 statement o
...By visaandmigration.com - 4 months ago
A UK partner visa is a type of family visa and is covered under Appendix FM of the Immigration Rules. The rules allow a non-British national to join their spouse, civil partner, fiance or defacto partner in the UK.
Once the Home Office in the UK grants permission to you through its decision on your UK partner visa application, you can come and live with your spouse, partner, fiancé or cohabiting partner in the UK who is a British national or has settled status in the UK.
A UK Partner v
By visaandmigration.com - 5 months ago
Last year on August 5 2021 the UK government published a policy paper on the new UK innovation strategy. This policy paper discussed opening two new visa routes in 2022 namely 'High potential individual' and 'Scale up' visas. Out of the two new visa routes, the 'High potential individual' visa route will open on 30 May 2022. On March 15, 2022, the UK Government announced the details of these two new visa routes. It is clear that both visa routes will make it easier for UK businesses as they will
...By visaandmigration.com - 5 months ago
There is a provision within the Immigration Rules to grant people leave outside the rules. However, the leave can only be granted on a compassionate and compelling basis. Generally, in “extreme rare” cases.
The cases for leave outside the rules are granted on circumstances where refusal would result in unjustifiably harsh consequences. The threshold of proving “unjustifiably harsh consequences” is very high.
An application can be submitted for temporary leave or even indefinite leave to remain
By visaandmigration.com - 5 months ago
If you are a non-British national and have a partner who is British or holds Indefinite leave to remain or is EU national with pre-settled status or Holding Leave to remain as a ECAA or holding Refugee status or was granted humanitarian protection are all considered 'present and settled' in the UK.
Your intention when applying for a UK Fiancé Visa is to join and live with your partner in the UK and you both must get married or form civil partnership within six months of your arrival in the UK.
By visaandmigration.com - 5 months ago
A UK based company or organization that wants to employ a foreign worker in their company must apply for a sponsor licence first. From the day you are granted a sponsor license, you need to fulfil the duties as per UK immigration rules. You need to meet these compliance duties until you surrender your license or your license lapses, or the Home Office revokes your sponsor license.
Record keeping is one of the compliance duties a sponsor n
...By visaandmigration.com - 6 months ago
A migrant can apply for Indefinite Leave to remain, which allows you to live and work in the UK with no immigration restriction based on long residence. If you have lawfully resided in the UK for an accumulated period of 10 years or more under any combination of UK visas, you may qualify for ILR based on long residence.
Long residence means continuous living in the UK for ten years or more. To fulfil a ten- year-long residence requirement, you must not spend 180 d
...By visaandmigration.com - 6 months ago
UK Ancestry visa is for a Commonwealth citizen or a British overseas citizen or a British Overseas Territories Citizen or a British National (Overseas) or a citizen of Zimbabwe and whose one of the grandparents was born in the UK, the Channel Islands, or the Isle of Man. It does not matter whether your grandparent born in the UK is alive or dead for you to apply for a UK ancestry visa.
You need to meet the following eligibility requirements to be able to ap
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When you are unable to meet one or all immigration, financial, accommodation, and English language requirements as a partner or parent when applying for leave to enter or remain in the UK, your visa application will be refused in usual circumstances, unless there are exceptional circumstances, on basis of which leave to remain or UK entry clearance may be granted.
By visaandmigration.com - 7 months ago
A skilled Worker visa allows individuals to work in the UK with an approved UK employer. The Skilled Worker Visa has replaced the Tier 2 (General) Work visa. You can also switch to a Skilled Worker visa if you are already in the UK on any other valid visa except short term visas such as visit visas, short term student visas, Parent of a child student visa, Seasonal worker visa, holding leave outside the rules and domestic worker in a private household visa.
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