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Partner visa UK – Who Qualifies

A UK partner visa is a type of family visa and is covered under Appendix FM of the Immigration Rules. The rules allow a non-British national to join their spouse, civil partner, fiance or defacto partner in the UK.  

Once the Home Office in the UK grants permission to you through its decision on your UK partner visa application, you can come and live with your spouse, partner, fiancé or cohabiting partner in the UK who is a British national or has settled status in the UK. 
 
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High Potential Individual Visa UK

Last year on August 5 2021 the UK government published a policy paper on the new UK innovation strategy. This policy paper discussed opening two new visa routes in 2022 namely 'High potential individual' and 'Scale up' visas. Out of the two new visa routes, the 'High potential individual' visa route will open on 30 May 2022. On March 15, 2022, the UK Government announced the details of these two new visa routes. It is clear that both visa routes will make it easier for UK businesses as they will

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Leave Outside the Rules

There is a provision within the Immigration Rules to grant people leave outside the rules. However, the leave can only be granted on a compassionate and compelling basis. Generally, in “extreme rare” cases.
The cases for leave outside the rules are granted on circumstances where refusal would result in unjustifiably harsh consequences. The threshold of proving “unjustifiably harsh consequences” is very high.
An application can be submitted for temporary leave or even indefinite leave to remain

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UK Fiancé Visa - How to present your application

If you are a non-British national and have a partner who is British or holds Indefinite leave to remain or is EU national with pre-settled status or Holding Leave to remain as a ECAA or holding Refugee status or was granted humanitarian protection are all considered 'present and settled' in the UK.
Your intention when applying for a UK Fiancé Visa is to join and live with your partner in the UK and you both must get married or form civil partnership within six months of your arrival in the UK.

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Sponsor Licence Compliance

A UK based company or organization that wants to employ a foreign worker in their company must apply for a sponsor licence first. From the day you are granted a sponsor license, you need to fulfil the duties as per UK immigration rules. You need to meet these compliance duties until you surrender your license or your license lapses, or the Home Office revokes your sponsor license.

Sponsor license compliance duties

Record keeping

Record keeping is one of the compliance duties a sponsor n

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Long Residence Indefinite Leave to Remain

A migrant can apply for Indefinite Leave to remain, which allows you to live and work in the UK with no immigration restriction based on long residence. If you have lawfully resided in the UK for an accumulated period of 10 years or more under any combination of UK visas, you may qualify for ILR based on long residence.

What is a long residence?

Long residence means continuous living in the UK for ten years or more. To fulfil a ten- year-long residence requirement, you must not spend 180 d

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UK Ancestry Visa

UK Ancestry visa is for a Commonwealth citizen or a British overseas citizen or a British Overseas Territories Citizen or a British National (Overseas) or a citizen of Zimbabwe and whose one of the grandparents was born in the UK, the Channel Islands, or the Isle of Man. It does not matter whether your grandparent born in the UK is alive or dead for you to apply for a UK ancestry visa.

Eligibility for UK Ancestry visa

You need to meet the following eligibility requirements to be able to ap

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Exceptional circumstances on Family Applications

When you are unable to meet one or all immigration, financial, accommodation, and English language requirements as a partner or parent when applying for leave to enter or remain in the UK, your visa application will be refused in usual circumstances, unless there are exceptional circumstances, on basis of which leave to remain or UK entry clearance may be granted.

Immigration rules for exceptional circumstances

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Switching to Skilled worker Visa

A skilled Worker visa allows individuals to work in the UK with an approved UK employer. The Skilled Worker Visa has replaced the Tier 2 (General) Work visa. You can also switch to a Skilled Worker visa if you are already in the UK on any other valid visa except short term visas such as visit visas, short term student visas, Parent of a child student visa, Seasonal worker visa, holding leave outside the rules and domestic worker in a private household visa.

Switching to Skilled Worker visa from

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Representative of Overseas Business

The UK is an excellent destination for businesses. If you also wish to set up a branch or register your business in the UK, you can do so. If you are a senior team member of a non-UK company or a sole representative of a non-UK company, you can apply for a Sole Representative visa to come to the UK to set up a UK branch or wholly-owned subsidiary. You can also apply for a Sole Representative visa if you are an employee of an overseas newspaper, news agency, or broadcasting organization and you ...

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Visa and Migration is a private OISC regulated company (F201500999) and is not an official Government body. If you would like to prepare and submit your UK immigration application yourself you can do so by visiting the UKVI website.