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UKVI News and Updates- Guidance: Powers and operational procedure: caseworker guidance
- Visit the UK for medical treatment
- Guidance: Criminality guidance in article 8 ECHR cases: caseworker guidance
- Guidance: Prove your English language abilities with a secure English language test (SELT)
- Guidance: Register of licensed sponsors: workers
- Guidance: Register of licensed sponsors: students
- Guidance: Cases involving pending prosecution: caseworker guidance
- Guidance: Returns preparation: caseworker guidance
- Guidance: UKRI endorsement: endorsed funders (Global Talent visa)
- Guidance: UKRI endorsement: employing or hosting institutions (Global Talent visa)
- 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
- Rwanda deportation law should not apply in Northern Ireland, court rules
- UK politics: government to appeal against ruling that blocks Rwanda deportations in Northern Ireland – as it happened
- Chelsea flower show hosts garden designed to help survivors of torture
- UK universities report drop in international students amid visa doubts
- ‘We had money! It was brilliant!’ Margaret Hodge on Labour governments, life as a migrant and quitting as an MP
- Child refugees using people smugglers to reach family in UK, report warns
- Rishi Sunak: UK is facing some of the most dangerous years in its history
- Starmer has laid out his plan to tackle asylum. Will it actually work? | Sunder Katwala
- ‘If Jacob Rees-Mogg wants to join us’ … Was Natalie Elphicke’s defection a step too far for Labour?
- Home Office faces legal challenge over risk of lone children being sent to Rwanda
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Tag Archives: Entrepreneurs
Court of Appeal takes a strict stance on adducing new evidence to the Upper Tribunal
Kabir v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] EWCA Civ 1162 (09 July 2019) On the topic of fresh evidence (in the context of deception, false documents, bank statements) the Court of Appeal has held that the … Continue reading
Court of Appeal holds that a ‘director’s loan’ does not have a specialist meaning in Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) applications
R (Sajjad) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] EWCA Civ 720 (17 April 2019) In a Pakistani businessman’s appeal against the dismissal of his application for judicial review against the refusal of his application for further leave … Continue reading
Ticking the Fee Box: Crucial Guidance on Authorising Payment and Validity of Immigration Applications
Kousar & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] EWCA Civ 2462 (07 November 2018) Giving guidance on the scope of the earlier Basnet [2012] UKUT 113 (IAC) principle concerning the rejection of applications as invalid, the Court … Continue reading
Tier 1 (General): Perspectives on Paragraph 322(5) and ILR
Cases in the Tier 1 (General) category present an outrage because we would not really expect highly skilled migrants to be punished for being honest by paying their taxes. Similarly, we would also not expect migrants who add value to … Continue reading
Posted in Appeals, Article 8, Cases, ECHR, False Statements and Misrepresentations, Immigration Rules, Judicial Review, Misconduct, Pakistan, Paragraph 322(5), PBS, Post Study Work, Proportionality, Public Interest, Tier 1, Tribunals
Tagged Article 8, ECHR, Economy, Entrepreneurs, Immigration Rules, Judicial Review, Points Based System, Spouses, Tribunals
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MAC Skewers Tier 1 Entrepreneur Visas
The home secretary’s advisers – the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) – have found that the Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) visa route under the Points-Based System (PBS) is being used by “low quality businesses”. MAC, which consists of a publicly appointed chairman … Continue reading
Posted in Appendix FM, Economy, Employment, Entrepreneurs, Immigration Rules, PBS, Tier 1
Tagged Economy, Entrepreneurs, Immigration Rules, Investors, Migrant Workers, Points Based System
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Points-based system, switching, etcetera
From July onwards last year Tier 1 (Post-Study Work) visa holders began to face difficulties in switching into Tier 2 (General) because it became virtually impossible to get the UKBA to grant new CoS in the £20,000–£23,999.99 salary band. New … Continue reading
Posted in Employment, Immigration Cap, Immigration Rules, JCWI, Pankina, PBS, Tier 1, Tier 2, UKSC, Uncategorized
Tagged AP (Russia), Entrepreneurs, Immigration Cap, Immigration Rules, Investors, Pankina, Points Based System, UK Supreme Court
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New 50K entrepreneur visa
The Cameron Junta’s new £50K Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) visa is something worth considering. This visa category allows start-up companies, which are initially exempted from mandatory accounting requirements, to enter into mentoring relationships with seed capital funds such as Seedcamp and … Continue reading
New student rules
As I entered the UK in the year 2000 under paragraph 57 of the immigration rules (as they were then in force), I could not resist writing about the changes to the immigration rules with respect to students. In the … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Dependants, PBS, Tier 1, Tier 4, UKBA
Tagged Article 8, Entrepreneurs, Points Based System, Students
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Tier 1 (General) deleted and more
Despite not having a policy on EU migration the home secretary has proceeded to do what empire does best. Step on the have nots, the Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis because empire is used to it. Equally citizens of these poor … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Dependants, Entrepreneurs, Immigration Cap, Immigration Rules, PBS, Tier 1, Tier 2, UKBA, Uncategorized
Tagged Article 8, Dependants, Entrepreneurs, Immigration Rules, Investors, Points Based System, 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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Agency publishes Tier 1 statistics
The International Group of the UKBA published what it called the an “operational assessment” of Tier 1 of the Points Based System (PBS). The Agency’s document can be viewed here. It is very much the objective of the Agency’s document … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Business, Dependants, Economy, Employment, Entrepreneurs, Fees, Immigration Law, Immigration Rules, PBS, Persecution, Tier 1, UKBA, Working
Tagged Business, Dependants, Economy, Entrepreneurs, Immigration, Immigration Rules, Points Based System, Spouses, 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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The limits on non-EU migration consultation 2010
The desired result of the change in policy is to reduce net immigration to the UK in order to limit it “to tens of thousands” of people rather than the “hundreds of thousands” of migrants who came to work in the UK during Labour’s 13 year stint (1997-2010) in power. Continue reading
Posted in Consultation(s), Immigration Law, PBS, Post Study Work, Tier 1, Tier 2, UKBA, UKBA Consultation
Tagged Consultation, Entrepreneurs, Immigration, Investors, Migrant Workers, Points Based System, UKBA
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