-October 16 2025

Sponsor Compliance Appendix D - UKVI Sponsor Record-Keeping Rules 2025

A UK company or organisation that has received a UK sponsor licence from the office to hire foreign workers is required to comply with their sponsor’s duties to retain its licence. If they fail to ...

-October 13 2025

What Happens if Your Spouse Visa Sponsor Loses Their Job

A UK spouse visa is effectively a subcategory of the UK Family Route. A spouse visa allows overseas nationals to come to the UK to join their spouses/partners who are either British Citizens or hav...

-October 10 2025

UK Visa for Dependants- Eligibility and Application Tips

The UK dependent visa route allows family members of certain visa holders to join or stay with them in the UK. The visa route for dependants is available to spouses, civil partners, unmarried partn...

-October 6 2025

Switching from Tier 4 to Skilled Worker Visa

International students currently in the UK on a previous Tier 4 (General) Student visa (the current student visa has replaced this) can switch to a Skilled Worker Visa (formerly known as Tier 2 vis...

-October 3 2025

Rights & Responsibilities of UK Scale-up Worker Visa Holders

The Scale-up Worker visa allows high-growth businesses to hire overseas talent with greater ease and flexibility compared to other UK work visas.

The UK Scale-up Worker visa, on the other hand, ...

-September 30 2025

Section 3C Leave to Remain Guidance 2025-Continuation of Stay in UK

For many non-British nationals residing in the UK with a valid visa, leave under Section 3C of the Immigration Act 1971 provides an important safeguard. Section 3C automatically extends a person's ...

-September 25 2025

New Absence Rule for EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) from 16 July 2025

The EU Settlement Scheme's continuous residence test is being made significantly more generous for pre-settled status holders by introducing a new absence rule to sit alongside the existing limits....

-September 22 2025

How to Track Your UK Visa Application Status

If you are awaiting a decision from the UKVI on a UK visa application, you would like to track the progress of your application, as it can be crucial to planning ahead, especially where you are fac...

-September 19 2025

How to Get a UK Work Visa Without a Job Offer

Working in the UK can be a dream-come-true life event for many foreign nationals. To work in the UK, you will usually need a work visa or work permit. Working in the UK through most work visas, suc...

-September 17 2025

Home Office Fees in 2025

Those who wish to come to the UK (fresh visa) or remain in the UK (visa extension), ILR, BRP, or Naturalisation will need to pay an application fee as part of the process. The Fee is published on t...

-September 15 2025

Exceptional circumstances Applications

Exceptional circumstances applications are usually UK family visa applications under the partner and parent routes. When you fail to meet the financial or other requirements under Appendix FM of th...

-September 10 2025

Appendix FM Suitability Requirements

From the introduction of Appendix FM in July 2012, the requirement for suitability was also introduced. The Suitability requirement works hand in hand with the General Grounds for Refusal provided ...