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Sponsor licence applications - Workers & Temporary Workers
An application for a Sponsor Licence is a process which allows UK based employers and education institutions to prove to the Home Office that they are eligible to be placed on the register of sponsors and that they genuinely wish to take on migrant workers or students.
Sponsor compliance & audit
On receipt of a licence to sponsor migrant workers or students, you are expected to fulfill certain duties to ensure that the system is not abused. These duties start on the day your licence is granted and continue until your licence is surrendered or revoked. The officials of the Home Office can visit you by arrangement or unannounced, to check what processes and procedures you have in place to ensure you are a compliant sponsor.
Global Talent Visa
Global Talent replaced Tier 1 Exceptional Talent Visa Applications
Global Talent category replaced Tier 1 (Exceptional talent) on 20 February 2020.
The Tier 1 (Exceptional talent) route remains open for settlement applications. If any application for endorsement, entry clearance, leave to enter or leave to remain has been made before 20 February 2020, such applications will be decided in accordance with the Immigration Rules in force on 19 February 2020.
Innovator Visa
The innovator visa is for experienced business people seeking to establish an innovative business in the UK. Innovators must have £50,000 in investment funds to invest in their business.
Innovators can form a team with other Innovator applicants, but cannot share the same investment funds.
Start-up Visa
Start-up Visas
The Start-up and Innovator visa categories replace the Tier 1 Graduate Entrepreneur and Tier 1 Entrepreneur route. Those wishing to set up a business in the UK now must apply under the Start-up or Innovator category.
Tier 1 (exceptional talent, entrepreneur, graduate entrepreneur, investor)
Skilled workers, Intra-company transfer, Sportspersons and Religious workers
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- Health and Care Worker Visa
Students, Child students and Short-term Students
If you want to come to the UK to study a course that lasts longer than 6 months or an English language course that lasts longer than 11 months, you will have to apply for a Student visa or a Child Student visa under the points-based system.
Temporary Workers - Youth mobility, Creative and Sporting, Government Authorised Exchange, International Agreements, Charity, Religious Workers and Seasonal Workers)
This route is for certain types of temporary workers whose entry helps to satisfy cultural, charitable, religious or international objectives including volunteering and job shadowing. There are seven sub categories within this route.
Representatives of overseas business
This route is replaced by Global Business Mobility – UK Worker Expansion route and is for businesses that have an established presence outside the UK and would like to set up a branch or subsidiary in the UK. For this, they would like to send an employee who has worked for the company for some time to the UK to represent their overseas business in the UK.
UK ancestry
You can apply for a UK ancestry visa if one of your grandparents (blood grandparent or by reason of adoption) was born in the United Kingdom and Islands, and you are a citizen of one of the commonwealth countries, and aged 17 or over, and you would like to come to the UK to work, and you will maintain and accommodate yourself without becoming a burden on the State.
Visitors
This category is for people who are seeking to enter the UK for a temporary purpose, such as a tourist, to visit family or friends, to carry out business activities, etc. Not everyone requires this visa before coming to the UK. It depends on the country of which you are a national.
Spouses, civil partners, unmarried partners, children and other dependants (in all applicable categories)
You can apply for a visa in this category in your home country or country of your residence, if you are a non-EEA national married to, civil partner / unmarried partner of, fiancé(e) of a British Citizen, a person who has Indefinite Leave to Remain, or a person who has limited leave as a refugee or has been granted humanitarian protection.
Domestic workers
This route is for domestic workers (including cleaners, chauffeurs, cooks, those providing personal care for their employer and their family, and nannies) who want to travel to the UK with their employer, for a period of up to six months.
Turkish Businessperson Visas and Turkish Worker Visas
The ECAA (European Community Association Agreement) was signed between the European Union and Turkey in 1963 to promote social and economic links between the European Economic Community and Turkey. Under the ECAA, Turkish nationals can enter or stay in the UK to establish themselves in business or as workers.
Discretionary Applications
If you do not qualify for leave to remain in the UK under the immigration rules, then based on individual circumstances of a case, it may be possible to request the Secretary of State to consider your application on discretionary basis. The merits of such applications are usually dictated by individual and unique facts of a particular case.
EU Settlement Scheme
The EU Settlement Scheme was fully opened to the public on 30 March 2019. The Scheme allows EEA (which includes EU and also Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) and Swiss nationals and their family members to continue to live, work, study and access services by applying to the EU Settlement Scheme successfully.
Graduate Visa
The Graduate route opens for applications on 1 July 2021. This route is for international students in the UK who want to work or look for work after successfully completing a degree at Bachelors level or above in the UK.
Settlement /Indefinite leave to remain / Permanent residence (in all applicable categories)
Indefinite Leave to Remain is commonly referred to as settlement (and permanent residence for EEA nationals and their family members) is a status which confers a right to live in the UK with no time limit and without restrictions. An applicant for indefinite leave to remain can qualify for this status after continuous residence in the UK of 2, 3, 5 or 10 years depending on the immigration category under which they have lived in the UK and satisfied the requirements of.
Naturalisation and registration as a British citizen
Once you are settled in the UK, i.e. have Indefinite Leave to Remain or Permanent Residence, if you are an EEA national or their family member, you are free to live in the UK without any time restriction. It is not a mandatory requirement to go on to become a British citizen. Many nationals, however, prefer to become British citizens for various reasons such as, it gives sense of security to some as they have moved their base to UK permanently, for visa nationals it is the ease of not having to obtain a visa before travel to other countries etc. There are two ways in which you can become British citizen, one by naturalisation, and second by registration. There are certain requirements which you must meet.
Human rights claims
If you do not meet the strict requirements of the UK immigration rules, it is possible to ask the Secretary of State to consider your application under the Human Rights Act 1998. Although there is nothing to prevent you from asking the Secretary of State to consider a case under the Human Rights Act, where the requirements of the immigration rules are met, but it can help those who are likely to refused under the immigration rules but then go on to succeed on the Human Rights grounds.
Appeals
A decision of the Home Office to refuse an application can be challenged by way of appeal to the First Tier Tribunal only in a limited number of cases. Following the implementation of the Immigration Act 2014, the UK Immigration appeal system has undergone a radical transformation in the recent years. Full appeal rights have been substituted with Administrative Review for applications under the points based system as well as for those under other immigration categories. Full appeal rights ended for applications made under Tier 4 on 20 October 2014, for applications under Tiers 1, 2 and 5 on 2nd March 2015 and for the rest of the immigration categories on 6 April 2015.
Administrative review
If your immigration application has been refused and you think that the Home Office has made a mistake in reaching this conclusion, you can ask for a review of the Home Office decision by applying for an Administrative Review. The cases that can be administratively reviewed are those that fall under the points based system as well as other immigration categories that do not raise human rights grounds.
Judicial Review
It is a process by which lawfulness of a decision or action of the public body can be challenged in the Upper Tier Tribunal in immigration cases, and in High Court in British citizenship and unlawful detention cases. You can only resort to this process if there is no appeal right available.
Asylum and Humanitarian Protection
If you are in the UK and cannot return to your own country, because you have a well-founded fear of persecution, then you may claim asylum and qualify for refugee status.
Your family including your partner and children under the age of 18 can apply for asylum with you as your dependants if they are with you in the UK.
Interpol Notices
A person subject to Interpol Notice is restricted from travelling safely and is liable to be arrested and face extradition.
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