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- High Potential visa opens today
- How to apply for a UK Expansion Worker visa
- Raise minimum wage for social care workers rather than loosening visa rules, says MAC
- How much does it cost to sponsor someone for a UK work visa?
- The new UK Expansion Worker visa doesn’t look like an improvement
Key posts on business visas
Latest on Skilled Worker visas
- Upper Tribunal reopens another Cart case
- Detailed policy on differential treatment of refugees announced
- Challenge to “deport first, appeal later” process rejected
- When is the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 coming into force?
- Free Movement is recruiting for a new Editor
- Handbook for civil servants deciding Innovator visa applications
- List of organisations that can endorse someone for an Innovator visa.
- Handbook for civil servants deciding Start-up visa applications
- List of organisations that can endorse someone for a Start-up visa.
- Notes for Global Talent visa applicants
- Handbook for civil servants deciding Global Talent visa applications
- Information from the Royal Society on the Global Talent route
- Information from the Arts Council on the Global Talent route
- Information from Tech Nation on the Global Talent route
- Guidance for sponsors on sponsoring a Skilled Worker
- Handbook for civil servants deciding Skilled Worker applications
- Guidance for sponsors on sponsoring a Skilled Worker
- Handbook for civil servants deciding Intra-Company transfer applications
- Handbook for civil servants deciding sponsor licence renewals
- Handbook for civil servants on reviewing and monitoring sponsors
- Handbook for civil servants on compliance visits to sponsors
- Supporting documents for sponsor licence applications
- List of immigration offences that can prevent employers from getting a sponsor licence
- List of civil penalties that can prevent employers from getting a sponsor licence
- Guidance for sponsors on keeping documents
- The official list of shortage roles
Key posts on sponsor licences
Latest on students
- Students hit by immigration status processing delays entitled to student loans
- Briefing: how to apply for a student sponsor licence
- Face-to-face learning required for international students from 27 September
Latest on temporary workers
- Seasonal Workers must now be paid at Skilled Worker rates
- The UK Youth Mobility visa
- New statement of changes to the Immigration Rules: HC 803 (pork butchers)
- Notes for Student and Child Student visa applicants
- Handbook for civil servants deciding Student and Child Student visa applications
- Handbook for civil servants deciding Parent of a Child Student visa applications
- Notes on how to apply for a student sponsor licence
- Handbook for civil servants deciding short term study visa applications
- General handbook for civil servants deciding temporary work visa applications
- Handbook for civil servants deciding Youth Mobility visa applications
- Guidance for sponsors on sponsoring a Government Authorised Exchange worker
- List of government authorised exchange schemes
- Guidance for sponsors on sponsoring an International Agreement worker
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Guidance for sponsors on sponsoring a Charity Worker.
- Guidance for sponsors on sponsoring a Creative Worker
- Guidance for sponsors on sponsoring a seasonal worker
How to apply for a UK Expansion Worker visa
The UK Expansion Worker visa is part of the Global Business Mobility route. It enables overseas businesses seeking to expand into the UK to temporarily assign senior managers and specialist employees, including business owners, to the UK to establish ...
24th May 2022How much does it cost to sponsor someone for a UK work visa?
Sponsoring a foreign worker isn’t cheap. Application fees and visa taxes typically run to thousands of pounds. Since the UK left the European Union, the costs of sponsorship have also applied to employers who want to hire EU workers under the Po ...
27th April 2022The new UK Expansion Worker visa doesn’t look like an improvement
The Home Office has finally published details of the requirements for sponsors in the UK Expansion Worker visa category. Part of the Global Business Mobility family, it replaces the Sole Representative visa — but how effectively does it fill thi ...
19th April 2022Briefing: the Seasonal Worker visa
The Seasonal Worker route is one of those visas in the Temporary Worker family, allowing people to come to the UK for short stints without the right to stay long term. Seasonal Worker visas made up over half (55%) of all temporary worke ...
6th April 2022What do we know about the new Global Business Mobility visa?
The UK government has published changes to the Immigration Rules introducing the Global Business Mobility visa. They come into force on 11 April 2022 and provide new solutions for overseas firms transferring staff to the UK. Announcing the route last ...
28th March 2022Business travel between the UK and EU: immigration and visa rules
Before 1 January 2021, British and EU citizens did not require a visa to travel across the Channel on a business trip. This is largely still the case post-Brexit, so we’ve been left with the appearance that nothing has really changed from a legal pe ...
28th March 2022