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The UK’s migrant worker population, along with their supporters, are set to mark their contribution in Britain with a ‘day of action’ in a bid to highlight the role they play in British society. Many non-EU workers are in the UK under the difficult to obtain Tier 2 Visa and Tier 2 Sponsorship licence scheme.
UK Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, has devised plans that will leave European Union workers facing the prospect of having to secure skilled work prior to entering Britain. Rudd’s post-Brexit, UK immigration regime, which has been sanctioned by ministers, will ‘restore border controls and cut net migration by 100,000,’ according to sources.
Following September’s Tier 2 visa allocation meeting, the number of Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) available for October stands at just 2,870, according to UK Visas and Immigration data. The department published its September report citing that its figures were correct as of 15 September, 2016.
Sanwar Ali, Editor of workpermit.com News reviews the UK Tier 2 Sponsorship Licence and Tier 2 Visa System:
Recently, Alexander Downer, the Australian High Commissioner to the UK, stated that Britain’s vote to ‘Brexit’ could potentially make Tier 2 immigration easier for Australians.
A points-based immigration system has been rejected by UK Prime Minister, Theresa May. Mrs May has promised a ‘better way of imposing some control over arrivals to Britain’, following accusations that she had reneged on promises made by the Vote Leave campaign during June’s Brexit Vote.
Newly installed Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, has confirmed that a work permit system is one of many options being considered in a bid to restrict the number of EU citizens coming to the UK, post-Brexit. However, Rudd said that any changes ‘must be for the good of the UK economy.’
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
Will this new UK visa related system make things easier for people or will it just add another layer of bureaucracy to an already overly complicated UK visa system? How easy will the online system be to use in practice. Will there be lots of bugs? Current online UK visa systems can be confusing and difficult to use.
In the past Ben and Jerry’s have had disagreements with immigrant farm workers in the US about working conditions. Ben and Jerry's that is actually a subsidiary of Unilever is obviously a large purchaser of milk. They had agreed to sign Migrant Justice’s “Milk with Dignity” program. It was years until Jostein Solheim, Ben & Jerry’s CEO signed the contract on 3
Who would have imagined that such a pandemic would exist in 2020, that would cause such enormous changes to society and how we do things.
There are still a number of important concessions for migrants in the UK due to coronavirus COVID-19. You can in many cases apply to remain from within the UK when previously this was not possible. The ridiculous documentation requirements for Tier 2 Sponsor licence applications for employers has been eased. You can now send docume
The name of this health care visa available from 4 August 2020 is highly misleading. It gives the impression that care workers can come under this Tier 2 visa category. In reality frontline care workers still cannot come under this UK visa scheme. It i
The scrapping of the “racist” UK visa software based algorithm is good news. Eventually, after a great deal of trouble, this system has now been scrapped. However, why is it necessary to go to so much trouble? Why does everyone have to fight to stop this sort of discrimination?