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UKVI News and Updates- Guidance: Medical appointments outside the detention estate
- Guidance: Register of licensed sponsors: workers
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- Form: Windrush Compensation Scheme: claim forms and guidance
- Guidance: Tuberculosis testing in Iran
- Guidance: Ecuador: tuberculosis test clinics for a UK visa
- Transparency data: Ukraine Visa Schemes: visa data
- Guidance: Sponsor guidance appendix D: keeping records for sponsorship
- Guidance: Sponsor an International Agreement worker
- Global Corporate Law
- Key Features of the Singapore Convention on Mediation
- What is the test for a ‘one man company’?
- LIBOR: The Final Nail in the Coffin?
- Banking and Misconduct: A Critique of the Cure of Culture
- Court of Appeal Opens the Door to LIBOR and Benchmark Misrepresentation Claims
- Habib Bank Expelled From New York
- Supreme Court: Equity’s Darling and Guidance on Enforceability of Trusts where the Institution is Unknown
- Conduct Costs on the Rise (2012-2016): No End in Sight
- Supreme Court Clarifies the Law on Security and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitration Awards
- FSMA and Third Party Rights: Victory for FCA in Supreme Court
- Immigration News
- Home Office in threat to deport disabled man to Nigeria after 38 years in UK
- Ex-ministers warn UK universities will go bust without higher fees or funding
- Billie Eilish and Becky Hill’s grim take on growing up in today’s world | Brief letters
- Rwanda denies entry to senior human rights researcher
- Rishi Sunak faces cabinet backlash over plans to curb foreign student visas
- £30,000 raised for Wirral ‘local legend’ denied UK citizenship
- Fears of new Windrush as thousands of UK immigrants face ‘cliff edge’ visa change
- British asylum housing tycoon breaks into Sunday Times rich list
- The Tories' war on foreign students isn’t for the good of the country – it's about saving their own skins | Polly Toynbee
- What are Labour’s six pledges and how likely is their success?
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Category Archives: Overseas Workers
Immigration cap faces judicial review challenge
The Coalition government introduced the immigration cap on 28 June 2010. The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) has reported that it will challenge the cap in the High Court by way of JR proceedings. The JCWI’s response to the cap … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Business, Dependants, ECHR, Economy, Employment, Immigration Cap, Immigration Law, Immigration Rules, Judicial Review, Overseas Clients, Overseas Workers, Pankina, PBS, Settlement, Tier 1, Tier 2, UKBA, Working
Tagged Article 8, Dependants, ECHR, Economy, Immigration, Immigration Rules, Judicial Review, Migrant Workers, Points Based System, UKBA
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Certificate of Approval fees refunds
In Baiai the House of Lords declared that the Certificate of Approval (COA) scheme was incompatible with article 8 of the ECHR as it disproportionately interfered with the fundamental right to marry. From 31 July 2009 applicants granted COAs between 2005 and 2009 … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Business, Cases, COA, Court of Appeal, Dependants, ECHR, Immigration Law, Immigration Rules, Overseas Workers, PBS, Post Study Work, Refugee Convention, Settlement, Tier 1, Tier 2, Tribunals, UKBA
Tagged Article 8, Asylum, Case Law, Dependants, ECHR, Economy, Immigration Rules, Points Based System, Spouses, UKBA
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Tier 1 (General) November limit reached
In July 2010 we witnessed the coalition government’s introduction of a limit on the number of initial applications that the UKBA could issue under Tier 1 (General) of the Points Based System (PBS). The limit will persist until 31 March … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Business, Dependants, Downsizing, ECHR, Economy, Employment, Entrepreneurs, Immigration Cap, Immigration Law, Immigration Rules, Overseas Clients, Overseas Workers, PBS, Tier 1, Tier 2, UKBA, Working
Tagged Article 8, Dependants, Downsizing, Points Based System, UKBA
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Law Society’s views on the immigration cap
One would have to be quite stubborn and ill advised not to take gravely seriously the opinion of the Law Society of England and Wales (the society) in a legal matter. Yet the government seems determined to do just that. … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Dependants, ECHR, Economy, Employment, Immigration Cap, Immigration Law, Immigration Rules, Law Society, Overseas Clients, Overseas Workers, Post Study Work, Settlement, Tier 1, Tier 2, UKBA, Uncategorized, Working
Tagged Article 8, Dependants, ECHR, Economy, Immigration, Immigration Cap, Immigration Rules, Law Society, Migrant Workers, Overseas Workers, UKBA
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Home Affairs Committee’s report on immigration cap
The chair of the Home Affairs Committee (HAC) the Rt Hon Keith Vaz MP has raised a multitude of concerns in his report about the Coalition government’s immigration cap. The terms of reference of the HAC were “to examine the expenditure, administration, … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Asylum, Business, Citizenship and Nationality, Dependants, Economy, Education, Employment, Entrepreneurs, Immigration Law, Immigration Rules, Overseas Clients, Overseas Workers, PBS, Post Study Work, Settlement, Spouses, Tier 1, Tier 2, Uncategorized, Working
Tagged Article 8, Business, ECHR, Economy, Entrepreneurs, Immigration, Immigration Rules, Points Based System, Spouses, UKBA
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UKBA discriminating against Pakistani applicants
It had emerged that the UKBA may be discriminating unlawfully against Pakistanis in favour of applicants for British visas from the emirates of and Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and Dubai. This was unearthed by the UKBA’s chief inspector Mr John Vine. However, the … Continue reading
Posted in ECHR, Education, Employment, Entrepreneurs, Immigration Law, Immigration Rules, Karachi, Overseas Clients, Overseas Workers, Pakistan, UKBA, Working
Tagged British Overseas Citizens, Dependants, ECHR, Immigration Rules, Overseas Workers, Pakistan, Points Based System, Spouses, UKBA
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French and British joint declaration on immigration
The global economic recession’s bite into British and French defence budgets has opened a “new chapter” in bilateral defence cooperation between these historically rival nations. Emphasising that the sovereignty of neither nation would be compromised as a result of the … Continue reading
Posted in Asylum, Business, Cases, ECHR, Economy, Employment, France, Immigration Law, Immigration Rules, Overseas Workers, Persecution
Tagged Asylum, ECHR, Economy, Immigration, Immigration Rules, Refugee Convention, UKBA
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Refined criteria and Tier 2 (General) certificate of sponsorship allocations
The stated objective of the Points Based System (PBS) was to simplify the immigration rules by recategorising eighty different immigration routes which were previously open to migrants to enter the UK. However, contrary to the expectation of simplicity, the PBS … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Biometric Cards, Business, ECHR, Economy, Employment, Fees, Immigration Law, Immigration Rules, Overseas Workers, PBS, Post Study Work, Tier 1, Tier 2, UKBA, Working
Tagged CoS, ECHR, Economy, Immigration, Immigration Rules, Migrant Workers, Overseas Workers, PBS, UKBA
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Why the best might prefer to leave the UK
While speaking to the Confederation of British Industry in an attempt to allay the immigration fears of the business community Prime Minister David Cameron comfortingly said to his audience: “Let me give you this assurance. As we control our borders … Continue reading
Posted in AP (Russia), Article 8, Asylum, Biometric Cards, Business, Detention, Economy, Education, Employment, Entrepreneurs, European Union, Immigration Law, Immigration Rules, Overseas Workers, PBS, Persecution, Post Study Work, Tier 1, Tier 2, UKBA Signing Centres, Uncategorized, Working
Tagged AP (Russia), Asylum, ECHR, Economy, Education, Entrepreneurs, Immigration, Immigration Rules, Investors, Migrant Workers, Overseas Workers, Pankina, Points Based System, Spouses, UKBA
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Agency to introduce biometric permits for Tier 1 and Tier 5
Parliament will, by virtue of changes which have been laid before it, soon be considering new rules which will require a much greater number of migrants to apply for biometric residence permits if they seek an extension of their leave to … Continue reading
UKBA October limit for Tier 1 (General) reached
On 19 July 2010 it was announced by the Her Majesty’s Coalition government that it would introduce a limit on entry clearance applications from overseas applicants under Tier 1 (General) of the PBS until 31 March 2011 when a full … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Dependants, Downsizing, Economy, Employment, Immigration Law, Immigration Rules, Overseas Clients, Overseas Workers, PBS, Tier 1, UKBA, Working
Tagged Business, Immigration, Immigration Rules, Points Based System, Spouses, UKBA
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The EU-India immigration and trade deal
Strains in the Coalition government’s immigration policy are becoming apparent because of a planned European Union “free trade agreement” with India. If struck the deal will give skilled Indian IT workers, engineers and managers easy entry into Europe in exchange … Continue reading
Posted in European Union, Immigration Law, Immigration Rules, India, Overseas Workers
Tagged European Union, Immigration Rules
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The Coalition Government and Immigration’s New Clothes
It appears from the view taken by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) that the Points Based System introduced by the former Labour government is working. The system has had more success in controlling immigration than its introducing Labour … Continue reading
Businesses Unhappy with Skilled Migrant Cap
While Prime Minister David Cameron cultivates new ‘special relationships’ and erases others forged by past leaders, a new tempest looms high in the immigration arena. The confrontation might become a very real threat to the rescue of the UK economy. … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Economy, Overseas Workers, Tier 1, Tier 2, UKBA, Uncategorized
Tagged Immigration, Immigration Rules, Migrant Workers, Points Based System
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