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.
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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
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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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