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UNITED KINGDOM | Police Registration Requirement Ends
September 2, 2022
Until recently, the UK Immigration Rules required certain foreign nationals with non-settled status to register with the police upon entering the UK, however from 4 August 2022 this requirement ceased.
Read MoreUNITED KINGDOM: Scale-Up Route Goes Live
August 24, 2022
Further to the Statement of Changes published in March this year, the Scale-Up route is now live and applications for visas under this route may now be made.
Read MoreUNITED KINGDOM: Home Office Lifts Suspension on Priority Service for Select Visa Applicants
August 15, 2022
The Home Office has announced that select visa applicants will be able to apply using priority and super priority service from 12 August. The suspension on this optional service has been in place since March 2022 following the crisis in Ukraine.
Read MoreUNITED KINGDOM: A New Plan
July 21, 2022
The UK government has published its ‘New Plan for Immigration: Legal Migration and Border Control', “setting out the vision for [the UK’s] border and legal migration system of the future… to a stronger, more secure and prosperous Union”.
Read MoreUNITED KINGDOM: Bahrain and Saudi Arabia to Join Electronic Visa Waiver (EVW) Scheme
May 16, 2022
From 1 June 2022, all nationals from Bahrain and Saudi Arabia intending to visit the UK (for tourism, business, study or medical treatment) for a period of up to six months will no longer be required to obtain a Visit visa in advance of travel; instead, they can choose to apply for an Electronic Visa Waiver (EVW) to travel to the UK.
Read MoreUNITED KINGDOM: High Potential Individual Visa – Global Universities List
May 10, 2022
UK Visas and Immigration have updated the Global Universities List, the table of global universities that will be accepted as awarding institutions for the High Potential Individual (HPI) visa route when it launches on 30 May 2022, for qualifications awarded between 1 November 2021 and 31 October 2022.
Read MoreUNITED KINGDOM: Global Business Mobility Routes – Evidential Requirements for Licence Applications
April 11, 2022
There are new evidential requirements for UK organisations seeking to apply for new or revised licences under the Global Business Mobility immigration routes.
Read MoreUNITED KINGDOM: Increase in Fees for Majority of Visa Applications
April 6, 2022
The Home Office has released an update to the UK visa fees, effective 6 April 2022, with increases to work visas and student visas.
Read MoreUNITED KINGDOM: The Impact of Brexit on Sponsor Licence Applications
April 6, 2022
The Home Office’s latest publication of sponsorship transparency data up to and including Q4 2021 confirms what immigration practitioners predicted and are now witnessing: that Brexit, supercharged by a post-pandemic recovery of the UK economy, has resulted in a surge in UK organisations applying for sponsor licences (to hire foreign workers) which, in turn, has drastically impacted processing times and lead to a rapidly growing register of sponsors.
Read MoreUNITED KINGDOM: Transitional Arrangements – Further Details on the Global Business Mobility Routes
April 4, 2022
On 11 April 2022, the Intra-Company Transfer and Intra-Company Graduate Trainee routes are being replaced by two new Global Business Mobility routes. Further guidance on the transitional arrangements to ease the introduction of these new routes has now been published.
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