United Kingdom Immigration Services

With offices in London, Newland Chase UK provides corporations and individuals operating in the United Kingdom with complete support for all their immigration and visa needs – inbound to the UK and outbound to more than 190 countries around the world. Our full spectrum of services allows us to manage all of your business visa and employee immigration needs.

The UK’s migration laws are complex and constantly changing. Newland Chase’s team of highly qualified consultants, regulated and accredited by the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC), provides unparalleled expertise in the complexities of UK visa rules and regulations. Our team of UK immigration specialists provides the most up-to-date, comprehensive advice and expertise to clients across all sectors, delivering tailored solutions customized to our clients’ business needs.

• UK Immigration Management

  We provide support in all areas of United Kingdom immigration for corporations and individuals – including applications under the various tiers of the points-based system, as well as family, settlement and citizenship applications, including both company employees and accompanying family members. Our approach covers you from comprehensive guidance and pre-planning of new assignments and immigration options to completion of all in-country requirements to ongoing compliance monitoring.

  For up-to-date information on the most common work authorization routes in the UK, see our Immigration Summary tab.

• Comprehensive Global Immigration Management

  For corporations and individuals located in the United Kingdom, we also provide support in all areas of immigration to more than 190 countries around the world. Our UK team is part of the larger Newland Chase global team of 1,700+ expert immigration and visa professionals – specializing in everything from short-term work assignments and temporary residency to long-term work assignments, permanent residency, and citizenship throughout the world.

• Business Traveler Management

  Business visas are a key component of a globally mobile workforce – allowing individuals to enter the United Kingdom and other countries for non-work business activities. Business visas typically apply to business meetings, seminars, conferences, trade shows, limited sales activities, contract negotiations, and some supervisory activities. Newland Chase UK offers comprehensive services for business travelers both inbound to the UK and outbound to more than 190 countries.

  Our services include everything from personalized assessment of the activities and destination for visa compliance, to obtaining the proper visas, to tracking of the number and length of stays of your business travelers for legal compliance.

• Immigration Policy and Compliance

  Our UK immigration experts offer an extensive suite of advisory services and immigration compliance strategies to ensure that your organization and employees remain compliant with all UK immigration and visa requirements. Our services include strategic guidance on immigration plans, development and implementation of immigration policies, sponsor compliance, education and training, audit support (including mock audits), and immigration compliance technology solutions.

• Consulting and Advisory Services

  Our UK immigration experts act as trusted business advisors – supporting you in virtually any unique or complex immigration-related matter. Our UK team is able to manage the scope of immigration in large-scale projects and employee moves, as well as guide you through the immigration complexities involved in corporate restructuring and mergers and acquisitions.

  • Audit and Right to Work Services

    We will support you in ensuring that you remain informed and compliant with UK immigration best practice. A Compliance Audit by our OISC registered immigration consultants will evaluate your existing HR systems and migrant worker arrangements, make recommendations for improvements and changes, indicate a rating against Home Office standards and provide a comprehensive written report.

    Our Right to Work Audit Service works to mitigate the risk of hefty civil penalties resulting from illegal employment and ensures that you continue to meet your obligations under the UK immigration points-based system. We will check the veracity of an employee’s documents indicating their right to work in the UK and provide an Audit Certificate to confirm the individual’s entitlement to take employment.

  • Bespoke Training and Workshops

    With the legislative burden on UK employers constantly increasing, we offer bespoke training and workshops to improve efficiency in immigration processes and increase overall control and compliance. We cover a wide variety of topics, such as:

    • Sponsorship requirements – what employers should know about sponsoring migrant workers
    • Developing internal documentation and processes – keeping on top of legislative requirements
    • Forgery detection techniques – how to spot falsified documents and what to do next
    • EU Settlement Scheme – how to navigate the changing immigration landscape for EU nationals in the UK
• Glossary of UK Terms
  • Biometric Residence Permit

    The Biometric Residence Permit, or BRP, is credit card-sized card which holds details of a migrant’s name, date and place of birth plus a facial image and fingerprints. The BRP is proof of the holder’s right to stay, work or study in the UK, and shows their immigration status and entitlements whilst they are in the UK.

  • Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS)

    To be eligible to apply for a visa under Tier 2 of the points-based system, a migrant must have a Certificate of Sponsorship, or CoS. The CoS is not a physical certificate but a virtual document with a unique reference number which holds information about the job and the migrant.

  • Entry Clearance

    Entry clearance is the procedure of obtaining a visa to travel to the UK. All non-EEA nationals must obtain a visa before they travel to the UK if they want to stay for longer than 6 months or undertake employment activities. Sometimes, nationals of certain countries are permitted to visit the UK for 6 months or less without a visa; they are known as ‘non-visa nationals’.

  • Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS)

    All non-EEA migrants applying for visas to come to the UK for longer than 6 months are required to pay the Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS). The payment goes directly to the National Health Service (NHS), entitling applicants to receive the same NHS treatment as a permanent UK resident (with some exceptions).

  • Immigration Skills Charge (ISC)

    All employers looking to sponsor a Tier 2 migrant for a period of 6 months or more will be subject to the Immigration Skills Charge. This payment was introduced to assist with tackling UK skill shortages and sponsors will need to settle this charge when a Certificate of Sponsorship is issued.

  • Leave to Remain

    This is the name for permission to stay in the UK, granted from within the UK, to enable an overseas national to remain for a further period additional to their original permission.

  • Points-based System

    The points-based system, or PBS, is the main immigration route for non-EEA migrants to come to the UK to work or train, study, or invest. The system is divided into five ‘tiers’, although Tier 3 is unused.
    Tier 1 – aimed at highly skilled individuals, this tier caters for Investors and those with Exceptional Talent
    Tier 2 – taking in two sub-categories, General and Intra-Company Transfer, this tier covers skilled workers with a job offer from a UK-based employer
    Tier 4 – students
    Tier 5 – caters for the Youth Mobility Scheme and five sub-categories of temporary worker

  • Sponsor Licence

    All UK businesses must apply for a sponsor licence to enable them to employ overseas workers under Tier 2 of the points-based system. Similarly, education providers that offer full-time study in the UK must have a Tier 4 sponsor licence in order to enrol students from outside the EEA.

  • UK Visas and Immigration

    A department of the Home Office, UK Visas and Immigration, or UKVI, deals with immigration applications from migrants looking to visit or work in the UK. The department considers applications from businesses and educational institutions applying to sponsor overseas nationals, and deals with applications for UK citizenship.