UK Immigration News

Employers with a Tier 2 Sponsorship licence need to also have a Tier 2 certificate of sponsorship for each overseas employee that they wish to employ.  We are covering below details of the monthly quota for restricted COSs for applicants based abroad who will be earning less than £155,300 a year.  Many people who are currently in the UK on a visa such as say a Tier 2 visa working for another employer can switch to a new Tier 2 visa without worrying about

UK companies are being warned to prepare for imminent changes to the Tier 2 Intra-Company Transfer Visa. The amendments, which were first announced in March 2016 with a view to being introduced this autumn, are likely to make it more difficult for multinational companies to transfer foreign personnel to the UK.

A joint survey conducted by the London Chamber of Commerce and ComRes, a leading research consultancy, has revealed that less than a quarter of London business executives think they would be able to afford a new, Tier 2 UK immigration fee due to come into effect in April 2017. The findings have prompted fears of a skills gap in Britain’s capital city.

A new Tier 4 visa pilot scheme was launched by UK Immigration on 25 July, 2016 for a period of two years.  This will allow non-EU students on Masters Degree programs on courses of 13 months or less from four top UK universities to remain in the UK for up to six months following completion of their studies; students applying for tier 4 visas to study at the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of Bath, and Imperial College London, will be able to stay six months longer to find jobs via the

According to a study carried out by Oxford University’s Migration Observatory, UK immigration faces 140 years’ worth of visa applications if all European nationals, currently in Britain, applied for residency in the aftermath of Brexit. Experts say that the Home Office would struggle to cope with a deluge of permanent residency filings.

As reported by Workpermit.com on 18 March, 2016, British Airways (BA) IT staff accused the airline of abusing Tier 2 visa rules during a 45 minute protest opposing plans to outsource and offshore IT jobs to India.