Category: Immigration Insights

January 19, 2018

Effective 1st January 2018, the Turkish Labour Ministry has announced increased minimum salary requirements. What is the new minimum salary? The new minimum salary rates are: Gross minimum monthly salary: TRY 2029.50 (up from TRY 1777.50); Net minimum monthly salary: TRY 1603.12 (up from TRY 1404.06). Other salary requirements Aside from this minimum salary requirement, […]

January 19, 2018

The Italian government has announced a cap of 30,850 on the number of workers from outside the EEA allowed in Italy for 2018. The total number of quotas is the same as for 2017, and the number per category of workers is only slightly different. Quota Allocations More than half the quotas are reserved to entries for […]

January 19, 2018

Effective 15th January 2018, Immigration New Zealand (INZ) has increased the remuneration thresholds which affect how long Essential Skills visa applicants can stay and whether their families can stay too. The change does not affect existing Essential Skills visa holders, or applications which were pending on 15th January 2018. The remuneration bands, which also affect […]

January 19, 2018

The way in which UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) calculate absences from the UK in relation to an application for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) has changed. Applications for ILR based on five years continual residence in the UK previously needed to  evidence fewer than 180 days’ absences in any of the five consecutive 12 […]

January 18, 2018

Bahrain has increased the minimum income requirement for foreign nationals wishing to sponsor their dependent family members for residence, from BHD 250 (about USD 660) per month to BHD 400 (about USD 1060) per month. The change will affect only new dependent permit applications. Our Advice Employers of foreign nationals wishing to sponsor their dependent […]

January 18, 2018

Effective 12th January 2018, e-visas obtained through the ASAN Viza website will allow stays of up to 90 days, rather than the previous 30 days, and multiple entries, rather than a single entry, as previously. However, as of the date of writing, the ASAN Viza site has not yet been updated to reflect this change to the […]

January 17, 2018

On 11th January 2018, the Australian Department of Home Affairs (DHA) published clarification of various recent and upcoming changes to the skilled visa regulations, including new details on the new Temporary Skill Shortage (TSS) visa which is due to replace the Subclass 457 visa in March 2018. Below, we look at the key updates from […]

January 15, 2018

Since the beginning of 2018, applicants for residence permits in Vienna must now submit a police clearance certificate from each country in which they have resided for more than six months, at any time in their lives. So far, only Vienna has adopted this new guideline. All other regions – for the moment – are […]

January 15, 2018

In this week’s edition, we bring you news that there are new police clearance requirements for residence applications in Vienna, Austria. There are changes to immigration processes in UAE and Ukraine has introduced new biometric entry procedures. We also have immigration news from Israel, Ireland and Romania. Plus, read the latest Newland Chase blog post here.

January 11, 2018

Politics can be a very topsy-turvy world, and none more so than in the UK in 2017 as Prime Minister Theresa May invoked Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, thus leading the country into one of its biggest political and administrative challenges of the century. The Brexit process has thus far been a measured process […]