A UK-based company looking to hire foreign workers in the UK or a foreign organization setting up a based in the UK must first apply for a sponsor licence. Once they receive a sponsor licence, they can issue a certificate of sponsorship (a mandatory document) for the foreign workers to the apply for a UK Visa in categories as skilled worker, expansion worker, scale up worker, health and care worker, creative, seasonal, charity, religious or a specialist worker.
When applying for a sponsor licen
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Bringing your adopted child to the UK can be a crucial and emotional life decision. You should carefully plan for it so that nothing goes wrong when you go ahead with the process. For UK citizens and parents of adopted children, there are visa routes available that allow parents to bring their overseas adopted children to enter and live with their parents. However, you must understand the immigration process, eligibility criteria, suitability criteria, documents required, and other requirements
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Giving a ground to the UKVI for your UK visa refusal may be a costly affair to you. If you are found to be deliberately using deception or misleading the officials your visa application may berefused and you may face a ten-year re-entry ban to the UK.
Other general grounds lead to or can lead to the refusal of your application for entry clearance, permission to enter, or permission to stay in the UK. Thus you need to know UK visa generalgrounds for refusal so that you can avoid a possible ref
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If a UK’s company wants to hire overseas employee they need to apply for a sponsor licence first. Overseas citizens include citizens of the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland who arrived in the UK after 31 December 2020.
A sponsor licence gives a UK company the right to issue a certificate of sponsorship to foreign workers applying to work in that company. Any size or type of organization can apply for a sponsor licence. The company must meet certain eligibility and suitability
By visaandmigration.com - 8 months ago
If you have been granted a refugee status in the UK and you want to bring your family member/s (for some reason you had to leave them behind in your country of origin) to join you in the UK, your family member/s needs to apply for a refugee family reunion under Appendix Family Reunion (Protection). Refugee needs to sponsor their family member/s. Family members include spouses and children. Refugee and his/her family member/s must have formed part of the family unit before the sponsor fled their
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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
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The Appendix Private Life of the Immigration Rules is a section of the UK's immigration law that outlines the criteria under which individuals may seek leave to remain in the UK based on their private life. This appendix is part of the wider UK Immigration Rules, which govern how individuals can remain in the country. The applications under this route are not relevant for Entry Clearance.
The rules surrounding private life are particularly relevant to individuals who do not have family or human
By visaandmigration.com - 8 months ago
Section 3 C Immigration Act 1971 prevents you from becoming an overstayer in the UK even if your existing leave has expired. This means section 3 C allows you to stay in the UK legally beyond your current visa expiry date until a decision on your application for extension is reached provided you applied for extension in time (i.e. you applied before your visa expiry). Such provisions are also applicable while any appeal or administrative review is pending and therefore you are entitled to stay i
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When you make a UK visa application, you want this to be processed quickly. There are standard time limits within which visa applications are processed by the Home Office if everything is right with the application and the applicant. But many times you may have to face delays. There have, for example, been a number of reports of visa delays in 2019. What are some of the reasons behind delays in the processing time for UK visas?
UK visa processin
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7 years child route is for those children who were born in the UK or came as children to the UK and have lived for 7 straight years in the UK. You can apply for indefinite leave to remain if you were born in the UK and leave to remain if you came as a child to the UK, you are below 18 years of age and you have lived for 7 years continuously in the UK. Children who came to the UK as children can apply for an initial period of 30 months or 60 months. The 7-year child route also enables you to appl
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