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Live online OISC Level 1 training courses now available
We now offer a four-week guided-learning online OISC Level 1 training course. With two live seminars per week on Mondays and Thursdays between 4pm and 5.30pm over four weeks, a dedicated tutor and group sizes capped at eight trainees, the courses are the best way to prepare for the OISC Level 1 exams. Trainees study our best-in-class online materials in their own time then come together to revise key learning points and go through additional exercises with the tutor.
Book nowComprehensive online OISC Level 1 and 2 training courses
We offer complete online OISC Level 1 and 2 training courses for Free Movement members. We use simple, plain English, diagrams, infographics and worked examples throughout the course as well as auto-marking “test yourself” questions at the end of every course unit.
For those on a budget who can self-study without the aid of a tutor and group discussion, this course can be completed at your own leisure, in your own time, in your own home you can spend as long as you need on this and our many other online courses.
Tell me more- Guidance on how to become a registered immigration adviser
- All about the exams!
- Application forms for initial registration with the OISC, maintaining your registration, raising your levels and changing your legal status.
- Collection of OISC statutory guidance for advisers
- Collection of guidance on providing immigration advice services
- Specific help for Community and Voluntary Sector organisations registering with the OISC
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FREE OISC handbook from Free Movement
A free, comprehensive guide to the OISC system of regulation and legal ethics aimed at OISC Level 1 advisers, with top tips on examination technique.
This free and comprehensive guide to the OISC’s system of regulation at Level 1 includes a walk through of what is permitted and prohibited work at Level 1, how the categories for registration work, how the OISC Code of Conduct works in practice for immigration lawyers, what signposting, referral and outsourcing mean and how they work and it ends with twenty pages of our top tips on preparing for the exams, what happens in the exams and on examination technique.
We also offer a 20% discount on the first year of full Free Movement membership for new OISC advisers signing up for our annual individual plan, bringing the cost down from £200 plus VAT to £160 plus VAT. This includes access to our three mock exam papers and our full OISC Level 1 training course on immigration, asylum, nationality, EU and business immigration law: everything you need to know to prepare for and pass the exams!
OISC level 1 online tutoring in immigration law: book now
Need or want to learn immigration law with an OISC Level 1 training course? Planning to sit the OISC level 1 exams? Prefer to learn in a small group? We have the perfect course for you. Our approach to OISC Level 1 training is to offer ‘guided learn ...
8th September 2023OISC consulting on new code of standards for regulated immigration advisers
The Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC), which regulates immigration advisers who are not practicing solicitors, barristers or Chartered Legal Executives, is consulting on a new code of standards. The OISC was brought into bein ...
1st September 2023OISC amends judicial review practice note to prevent advisers conducting litigation
The OISC (Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner) has again amended its guidance note on advisers conducting litigation in judicial review cases. The amendment appears to be with immediate effect, although the online version of the practice ...
3rd July 2023Big news at Free Movement: new Editor and new live OISC level 1 training course
Some big news at Free Movement. Two bits of big news, in fact. New Editor Firstly, I am delighted to announce that Sonia Lenegan is joining Free Movement as the new Editor in August. She will be replacing me, although I’ll still be lurking in th ...
22nd May 2023Lawyers who earned millions from unregulated immigration advice fined £45,000
Three lawyers convicted in 2019 of providing unregulated immigration advice worth millions have been ordered to cough up over £45,000 between them in fines and compensation. Dan Romulus Dandes, Babbar Ali Jamil and Zia Bi were sentenced at the Old Ba ...
8th January 2021What are the continuing professional development CPD training rules for immigration lawyers?
Since 2016 there has been no minimum CPD training hours requirement and training can be undertaken by any training provider or even by informal methods including self study. The rules for solicitors, barristers and OISC advisers are all broadly simila ...
22nd August 2019