The EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) enables Europeans and their family members to apply for immigration status in the UK. Once the grace period comes to an end on 30 June 2021...

Many applicants who applied for a Start-up visa when the route was opened on 29 March 2019 are now looking to extend their stay in the UK...

On 14 October 2025, the Home Office published a wide-ranging Statement of Changes which, among other changes, deletes Part 9 (Grounds for Refusal) and inserts a new Part Suitability into the Immigration Rules.

The Global Business Mobility routes allow workers of overseas businesses to send workers to the UK to undertake work on a temporary basis.

Several UK visa routes, such as the Spouse Visa, Civil Partner Visa and Unmarried Partner Visa, require applicants to demonstrate that their relationship is ‘genuine and subsisting'.

The Home Office has published new guidance on when a decision maker should vary an application for settlement/indefinite leave to remain and grant permission to stay instead.

As many readers will be aware, on 04 December 2023, the Home Secretary James Cleverly announced that the financial threshold for family visas would change to £38,700.

Prior to the UK's exit from the EU, EEA nationals who lived in the UK in accordance with the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016 ("the Regulations")...

People who have been recognised as refugees in the UK or who have been granted humanitarian protection may sponsor certain family members to join them in the UK.

The Home Office has issued its much anticipated guidance in respect of individuals deemed to meet the definition of ‘a person with a Zambrano right to reside' under Appendix EU.

The Health and Care Worker category was introduced on 4 August 2020 for individuals who are medical professionals and who will work in the health and care sector in the UK.

A Certificate of Sponsorship (‘CoS') is an electronic record which must be assigned for each migrant worker you employ.

Knowing what duties and responsibilities come with having a sponsor licence are essential. If a sponsor fails to understand and comply with these duties, ...

In the judgement in Celik (EU exit; marriage; human rights) [2022] UKUT 00220 (IAC) published on 10 August 2022, the Upper Tribunal considered the rights of partners of EEA nationals...

The Global Business Mobility (‘GBM') routes are sponsored immigration routes that allow eligible businesses to sponsor overseas workers to come to the UK to undertake temporary assignments.

This is a two-part post that explains fee waivers the Home Office can grant for certain in-country immigration applications, where you apply from within the UK.

We recently examined immigration appeals in the context of the new digital MyHMCTS system and in the context of the Covid-19 Pandemic. We considered what immigration decisions you may appeal...

In this first or two posts, we provide an overview of the quickest ways to obtain indefinite leave to remain (ILR) status in the UK. Other routes, such as the 5, 10, 20 year routes...

It is reported that the number of persons awaiting decisions could be in the hundreds of thousands, and there are delays which are running into months.

The Hong Kong British National (Overseas) visa route has attracted a great amount of attention over the past year.