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13 May 2013
On 26
April 2013 the Crime and Courts Act 2013 received Royal Assent. Section 22 of
the Act amends the law governing transfers of immigration judicial reviews to
the Upper Tribunal from the High...
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01 May 2013
The Home Office
recently announced that it is carrying out a re-tendering exercise for approved
secure English language test providers in summer 2013. The aim is to ensure
that providers offer a...
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09 April 2013
On
26 March 2013 Home Secretary Theresa May announced that the "closed, defensive
and secretive" UK Border Agency would be no more. Instead, the agency will be
split into two separate units within...
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15 March 2013
On 6 April 2013 the latest changes to the Immigration
Rules will take effect. Below is a brief overview of the main changes that will
affect your company if it is a Tier 2 sponsor.
Minimum salary...
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15 March 2013
A new statement of changes comes
into effect on 6 April 2013. Included in these changes is an update to the list
of skilled occupations used when selecting a Standard Occupational
Classification (SOC)...
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14 March 2013
Following changes
to the entrepreneur visa category on 31 January 2013, the UK Border Agency
has advised today that it will no longer accept applications for further leave
to remain in the UK...
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30 January 2013
The Minister of State for Immigration, Mark Harper,
has today publicly announced important changes to the Tier 1 (Entrepreneur)
visa route that will come into effect on 31 January 2013.
The changes...
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05 December 2012
It has been widely
reported in the press that the number of people who come to live in the UK
for the long-term and the number who are leaving fell from 242,000 to 183,000
in the year leading...
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22 November 2012
From
13 December 2012 you will no longer be able to switch from Tier 4 student to
Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) unless you apply under the £50,000 funding route from a specified source
(registered venture...
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22 November 2012
Tier 1 Investors leveraging against your
investments:
New rules coming into force on 13 December
2012 will prevent you from leveraging against the investment portfolio used for
your...
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12 November 2012
Yesterday it was announced that the coalition government has
been in discussion with Home Secretary Theresa May over her plans to
dramatically cut the number of non-EU migrants coming to the UK....
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24 September 2012
Gherson has been recommended as a top tier firm in The Legal
500 for the sixth year running. All Gherson’s practice areas have been recognised
by the world’s largest independent legal benchmarking...
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06 September 2012
New Statement of Changes to the Immigration Rules HC 565 – Taking
Effect 6 September 2012
A 45 page amendment to the Immigration Rules was
published today, much of it coming into...
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28 November 2011
In its judgment in Dereci and others (CJEU C-256/11, 15 Nov 2011) the Court of Justice of the European Union has clarified the scope of its judgment earlier this year in Ruiz Zambrano [2011] EUECJ...
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21 November 2011
The United Kingdom Border Agency announced last week (November 16 2011) that that the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) had recommended that the minimum salary to be demonstrated by people settled...
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08 November 2011
As we reported on this site, on 12 October 2011 the Supreme Court issued a judgment ( Quila and Bibi v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] UKSC 45) to the effect that a change in the...
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07 November 2011
Does the UKBA have any discretion to consider an application under the Points Based System if the applicant failed to meet the strict requirements of the Agency’s "policy guidance”? If it does,...
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28 October 2011
Back in May of 2011 the government got round to implementing section 85A of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002.
(It actually could have done so at any point from when Parliament...
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21 October 2011
The United Kingdom Border Agency (UKBA)’s Shortage Occupation list consists of a range of jobs which it is accepted that there not enough skilled workers in the UK to fill. Employers who...
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17 October 2011
House of Commons paper 1511, the fifth statement of changes in the Immigration Rules so far this year (2011), includes a disparate set of changes to the immigration regimes relating to:
...
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