UK Immigration News

This has been a somewhat controversial case.   Should the decision to take away British citizenship from anyone, ever be left to politicians?  Should the severity of someone's alleged crimes be such that he or she should not have access to Government funded legal representation and so in effect have reduced access to Justice?

The Government has made a big thing about the “Australian Style Points System”.  However, it is not really that different to the current UK visa points based system.   In most cases in future you will need to be paid the same sort of salary as now.  You will also need to have a job offer and meet the English

As many people have said already this new UK health and care visa system does not deal with the shortage of care workers in the UK.  There is a shortage now and after the end of the Brexit transitional period from 1 January 2021 the shortage will be even worse.   Most prima

Governments around the World have imposed severe restrictions on businesses during the pandemic so reducing demand for goods and services.  Many people including Tier 2 visa migrants have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic.  While most people would say that such restrictions are justified the economic downturn is artificially created.  These are not normal circ

The new UK healthcare visa scheme is another disappointment.  The system will not allow entry of frontline care workers.   Such people will not have high enough skills to come under the new health and care visa category.  Only those that are considered to be in “skilled roles” will come under this new

There are few surprises in the announcement today about the new UK visa points system. It seems that, as expected, the new UK visa system will be unable to deal with post-Brexit skills shortage.