Month: March 2013

Newland Chase shortlisted for two categories at the Re:locate Awards!

March 28, 2013

Newland Chase is pleased to announce that we have been shortlisted for two Re:locate awards: Best HR / Supplier Strategy and Relocation Team of the Year. According to Re:locate Magazine, this has been the best year so far for entries…

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HR Seminar: Challenges and Opportunities for Business Travellers & Short-term Assignees

March 22, 2013

With an ever-increasing tightening of the UK immigration rules, including cooling off periods and mandatory bans for overstaying or breaching the immigration rules, it is vitally important that employers understand the current immigration rules and policy to ensure that their...

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AUSTRALIA: Changes to the Subclass 457 Visa Programme

March 15, 2013

The Australian Government is implementing significant changes to the 457 visa programme, which will come into force on the 1st July 2013. The 457 visa program is designed to enable employers to fill skill shortages by recruiting qualified overseas workers…

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Review of the Shortage Occupation List – What’s New for Tier 2 Sponsors & Migrants?

March 7, 2013

We will be publishing a follow up to our first ‘International Assignments' blog soon, but given the volume of changes to the UK Immigration Rules which have been announced recently, we thought it would be useful to our readers to...

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Changes to UK Immigration Fees

March 4, 2013

On the 25th February 2013, the Immigration Minister Mark Harper laid a written ministerial statement before Parliament which which proposed fee increases for visa applications made overseas and applications made in the UK. The fee changes will come into…

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