ILR (Indefinite Leave to Remain) or settlement in the UK is a big step in your life. Not everyone is able to get this status easily. You need to meet various requirements, and the most important being having continuous residence in the UK for a specific number of years. There are several advantages to those holding an ILR status. For example, you can live, work, and study in the UK without any time or immigration restrictions, you can access public funds, and you can access the NHS.
Therefore
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Financial requirements are key eligibility criteria for almost all types of UK visas. For most visas, such as the UK skilled worker visa, the amount threshold is set, and the Home Office regularly updates it. On the other hand, for visas such as a UK visitor visa, there is no fixed amount of money required to meet the financial requirement.
As you know, a UK visitor visa allows you to visit the UK for a short period of up to 6 months. This means that you must leave the UK at the end of your v
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In certain circumstances, you can apply for leave to remain in the UK based on your human rights. This means that even though you don’t meet the eligibility criteria for the permission, you can still be granted leave if removing you from the UK or asking you to leave the UK would be a breach of your human rights. Most UK human rights applications are based on Article 8 of the ECHR (European Convention on Human Rights), which protects the right to respect for family and private life.
On the ot
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The UK closed down its previous ‘Representative of Overseas Business’ visa on 11 April 2022 and launched a new Global Business Mobility category. This category encompasses five visas, and the UK expansion worker visa is one of them. If an overseas business wants to set up its first UK branch or subsidiary and assigns this task to one of its employees, that employee needs to apply for a UK expansion worker visa. The employee of that overseas business must be a senior manager or a specialist emplo
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Millions of people every year want to visit the UK for a short period. For such visitors UK has a Standard Visitor Visa. This is a visa that allows visa nationals to come to the UK for tourism, business activities, short-term study, medical treatment, etc.
Non-visa nationals can apply for ETA (Electronic Travel Authorisation) for travelling to the UK for up to 6 months.
UK business visitor visa and tourist visa are subcategories of the UK standard visitor visa, which is a short-term visa v
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A UK tourist visa is a term under the UK standard visitor visa category that allows you to visit the UK for tourism and leisure. The UK standard visitor visa is a short-term visa valid for up to 6 months only. There are other purposes as well that are covered by a standard visitor visa. They include visiting the UK for short-term study, visiting your friends or family living here, short- term recreational courses, short-term business activities, medical treatment, and other permitted activities.
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A Home Office compliance visit is done to ensure whether an approved or prospective sponsor is or will be able to adhere to their sponsor’s duties and UK immigration law. An approved sponsor is a UK-based company or organisation that holds a valid sponsorship licence. A sponsor licence is required to hire foreign workers or international students. But in order to keep hiring foreign workers, sponsoring international students, and maintain a UK sponsor licence, an organization must comply with it
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Salary thresholds for skilled workers are being raised from existing levels. This is in line with objective to curb the inward immigration stated in the White Paper released in May 2025. Further, STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN IMMIGRATION RULES (HC 997), released on 1 July 2025, state the exact changes in the salary threshold for occupations on the UK skilled worker route.
The new salary threshold will be effective for CoS (Certificate of Sponsorship) issued on or after 22 July 2025.
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The Temporary Shortage Occupation List is transitioning from the Immigration Shortage List, which will soon be abolished. The ISL (Immigration Shortage List), which was introduced in April 2024, replacing the SOC (Shortage Occupation List), is a list of jobs for skilled worker visas. These are jobs for which there is a shortage of local labour in the UK. The MAC (Migration Advisory Committee) is the body that identifies which occupations have a labour shortage and hence recommends occupations th
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Sponsor licence holders must comply with their sponsor’s duties, one of which is to retain the relevant documents listed in Appendix D. If a sponsor fails to comply with their record-keeping duties, their sponsor licence may be downgraded, suspended, or even revoked. Any negative change in the sponsor licence can impact the employees whom that employer has sponsored. For example, their leave to remain may be curtailed. This can operationally disrupt, cost, and damage the organisation’s reputatio
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