If you are a non-UK national, the term “retained right of residence” refers to your ability to continue living in the UK after your relationship with an eligible EU, EEA, or Swiss family member has ended. Your relationship could have ended due to reasons such as your eligible family member has died, has left the UK, or your relationship with them has permanently broken down. To ensure your continued lawful living in the UK, it is essential to understand whether you qualify for retained right of
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A UK spouse visa application falls under the UK family immigration route. This means a non-UK resident partner can apply for a UK family visa as a spouse. The person in the UK you are a spouse of while applying for a UK spouse visa must be
• A British citizen or
• With settled status, for example, indefinite leave to remain or settled status under the EU settlement scheme, or
• With leave as a refugee or humanitarian protection status in the UK.
You can apply for a UK spouse visa
...By visaandmigration.com - 5 days ago
Global Business Mobility Route UK consists of five different types of UK work visas. These visas are designed for employees of overseas companies to enter or remain temporarily in the UK to undertake specific types of work or assignments in the country. When the Global Business Mobility Route was introduced, it was reformed and expanded on previous UK work and business visas. This route aims to allow overseas organisations to pursue UK-based opportunities by enabling them to deploy certain types
...By visaandmigration.com - 1 week ago
There has been a significant change in the minimum salary threshold for various UK work visas effective from 22 July 2025. The main route where a marked change in salary threshold has been applied is the UK Skilled Worker visa. Some are for employees of overseas businesses looking to come to the UK to establish their first branch or wholly owned subsidiary here. Some UK work visas include temporary or seasonal workers. Apart from these, there are some other UK work visas as well.
For some w
...By visaandmigration.com - 1 week ago
The UK skilled worker visa is for foreign individuals looking to work in the UK and for UK-based organizations looking to employ overseas employees. Such companies need to obtain a sponsor license
and then assign a certificate of sponsorship to the sponsoring employees, which is mandatory for foreign workers looking to apply for a skilled worker visa. Some changes were proposed in a white paper released in May 2025. We are going to discuss those changes in this article.
By visaandmigration.com - 1 week ago
Any UK business or organisation looking to employ foreign workers must apply for a sponsor licence first. Once they obtain a sponsor licence then only, they can employ overseas workers. A licenced sponsor must assign a CoS (certificate of sponsorship) to the workers they want to sponsor. Only after receiving a CoS foreign workers can apply for UK work visas. Foreign workers include citizens of the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland who arrived in the UK after 31 December 2020.
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The UK recognizes civil partnerships between people of the same sex or opposite sex. However, partners must not be in a prohibited degree of relationship. Civil partnerships can be registered in the UK or overseas, but in the case of overseas registration, they must still be legally recognized in the UK.
Civil partnership and UK visa under the UK family visa category allow non-UK and non-Irish individuals to join or stay with their civil partners in the UK who are either British citizens or h
...By visaandmigration.com - 3 weeks ago
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
...By visaandmigration.com - 3 weeks ago
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
...By visaandmigration.com - 1 month ago
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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