New Rules For UK Visitors: Working On A Visit Visa

In the last few months, the Government has introduced a whole host of changes to the Immigration Rules, including to the Visitor visa rules which are spread across a number of "Visitor appendices": notably, Appendix V: Visitor, Appendix Visitor: Visa national list, and Appendix Visitor: Permitted Activities.

This post will examine four specific changes in relation to the Visitor visa rules: (1) the clarifications regarding remote working, (2) the lifting of the ban on client-facing work for intra-corporate employees, (3) the greater scope for research and collaboration by scientists, researchers and academics, and (4) the expansion of permitted activities for legal professionals. This post also serves as an update for our previous posts: UK Visit Visa: What Activities Are Permitted? and Dos and don'ts of conducting business on a visit visa.