After an applicant has lived in the UK for a continuous lawful period of 10 years, they can apply for Indefinite Leave to Remain in the UK on the basis of Long residence. Indefinite leave to remain is also known as 'settlement'. If you are granted Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR), you are allowed to live in the UK as long as you wish without any immigration control. You can also work and study in the UK if you have ILR status.
The rules of counting continuous residence are pretty strict. How
...By visaandmigration.com - 1 year ago
The scale up visa started from 22 August 2022 and requires the applicant to be sponsored by a sponsor (UK company) holding a Temporary Worker Licence - Scale Up Business.
The Scale Up Business is a business which has grown their employees or business turnover by 20% each year in the last 3 years and had 10 employees at the start of the 3 years period.
The Scale Up Business needs to provide the applicant with a Certificate of Sponsorship for at least 6 months. The applicant should be i
...By visaandmigration.com - 1 year ago
The Appendix Private Life was brought into the immigration rules in March 2022. The new rules are replace paragraph 276 ADE of the Immigration Rules. Any application made based on private Life on or after June 20 2022, will be considered under the new Appendix Private Life.
Private life route for leave to remain and indefinite leave to remain stands unchanged.
The applications for Leave to remain, or permission to stay under the private life route are based on:
By visaandmigration.com - 1 year ago
A UK-based business that wants to recruit foreign employees for its organization needs a sponsor license granted by the UK Home Office.
However, you don’t need a UK sponsor licence to employ Irish citizens, those with settled or pre-settled status under the EU settlement scheme and those with indefinite leave to remain in the UK.
To get a sponsor license, your business needs to meet the following requirements:
By visaandmigration.com - 2 years ago
A partner visa is for non-British individual who has a partner who is a British citizen, is settled in the UK or has a pre-settled or settled status under the EU settlement scheme. However, some eligibility requirements must be met by the applicant and the sponsor (partner in the UK). One of them is to meet financial needs.
If you or your partner in the UK are in receipt of PIP (Personal Independence Payment) you do not need to meeting the financial requirements rather you need to meet the
...By visaandmigration.com - 2 years ago
All non-British nationals who want to enter the UK to marry their British partner, have pre-settled status, or are present and settled in the UK can apply for a UK Fiancé visa. UK Fiancé visa is a short-term visa valid for up to 6 months. However, visas can also be extended. The applicant must be sponsored by their partner in the UK, who is known as a sponsor.
Eligibility requirements
You must meet the following eligibility requirements in 2022 if you want to apply for a-
By visaandmigration.com - 2 years ago
A non-British citizen with a spouse or a partner who is a British citizen or holds indefinite leave to remain in the UK or has a permanent right of residence in the UK can apply for a UK spouse visa to join their UK partner. Your partner must sponsor you to bring you to the UK. You are granted a stay in the UK on a UK Spouse visa for two years and nine months. You can also apply for an extension of your UK spouse visa before the granted period ends.
Your p
...By visaandmigration.com - 2 years ago
Youth mobility scheme UK is a short-term visa for up to 2 years that allows foreign nationals aged 18 and 30 to study, work or live in the UK. Applicants from participating countries only can apply for this visa. The Youth Mobility scheme is going to replace T5 (Temporary Worker) Each year, each participating country gets an annual allocation, and the yearly budgets are like this:
Australia - 30,000 places
New Zealand - 13,000 places
Canada - 6,000 places
By visaandmigration.com - 2 years ago
The UK government has been trying to be innovative in its visa routes to bring more talents to the country who can contribute to the country's economic growth. In this effort, last year, in 2021, two new visa routes were announced, namely the High Potential Individual visa and the Scale-up visa.
The scale-up visa is a flagship visa included in the March 2022 Statement of Changes post Brexit. This much-awaited visa route will be open for foreign nationals, including EU nationals, from Augus
...By visaandmigration.com - 2 years ago
In an attempt to bring more foreign talents and businesses to the country, the UK's government has introduced some new immigration routes in recent times. Global Business Mobility is one such new visa route. Global Business Mobility is one among various sponsored routes for overseas businesses seeking to establish their presence in the UK or to send their staff to the UK for specific business purposes. This new visa route has opened for applicants from 11 April 2022. On 15 March 2022 statement o
...By visaandmigration.com - 2 years ago
