Feb 17, 2023 Home Office decides not to appeal landmark EU Settlement Scheme judgment By Tom Marsom Just before Christmas 2022, the High Court ruled against the Home Office on the legality of the two step EU Settlement Scheme application...
Dec 22, 2022 High Court judge rules against Home Office in major development for EEA nationals with Pre-Settled Status By Tom Marsom A recent High Court judgment has ruled against the UK Government: this has some interesting implications for those EEA/Swiss nationals...
Oct 20, 2022 No joy for UK investors just yet as immigration rule changes are published By Tom Marsom The Home Office tends to serve up major changes to the Immigration Rules twice a year, in Spring and Autumn, with emergency measures...
Sep 22, 2022 UK to begin roll-out of electronic travel authorisation programme from January 2023 By Tom Marsom If you have ever travelled to the US as a visitor, you may be familiar with ESTAs. ESTA is a US government programme which allows you to...
Aug 18, 2022 Farewell Police Registration Certificates By Macfarlanes It has been an unusual feature of the UK immigration process that certain nationals (e.g. of Brazil, China, Israel, Russia, Turkey, UAE)...
Aug 12, 2022 Home Office resumes priority processing By Tom Marsom Last week, I wrote about the issues the Home Office faces as a consequence of a surge of applications, a lack of caseworkers and the...
Aug 04, 2022 The impact of the war in Ukraine on the Home Office By Tom Marsom The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 created a refugee crisis as almost four million, mostly, women and children fled the...
Feb 17, 2022 The UK Government closes the Investor visa category By Macfarlanes The Home Office has just announced that it has closed the Investor visa category to new applicants with immediate effect.Current Investor...
Feb 08, 2022 Dual/multiple nationalities: will you have to choose? By Macfarlanes The UK and many other countries allow their citizens to hold dual/multiple nationalities. I am Canadian (a country that permits its...
Jan 27, 2022 Trading for visas: UK considers easing visa requirements for Indian nationals By Tom Marsom When the UK left the UK-EU transition period on 31 December 2021, it ended free trade of goods and services with a trading bloc of 450m...
Oct 27, 2021 UK Budget and immigration - Chancellor confirms 2022 high skilled visa plans By Tom Marsom Today, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer announced the Government’s fiscal plans for the immediate and near future. Amongst the tax...
Aug 26, 2021 Remote right to work checks to continue until 5 April 2022 By Tom Marsom The UK Government has announced that the temporary concession on remote right to work checks will now continue until at least 5 April...
Jul 30, 2021 A degree and potential? Welcome to the UK! By Anske Venter As free movement between the UK and the European Union ended on 31 December 2020, the UK Government is considering opening a new visa...
May 13, 2021 Court of Appeal decision gives Pyrrhic victory to Investors who used the "Maxwell Scheme" - a cautionary tale By Macfarlanes Applicants who submitted their Tier 1 (Investor) visa applications before 6 November 2014 had to show that they had at least £1m under...
May 10, 2021 The end for citizenship by investment programs? By Macfarlanes The Cyprus Citizenship by Investment program, which enabled wealthy foreign investors to obtain a Cypriot passport within months of...
Jan 18, 2021 UK introduces tighter travel restrictions to combat new Covid-19 variants By Tom Marsom UPDATE: From 15 February 2021, new guidance is in effect - please see our updated note here: Covid-19 UK travel restrictions and...