UK Immigration News

There are allegations of widespread racial discrimination and institutional racism at UK Visa and Immigration at the Home Office and those sponsored by them.  This makes bad decision making more likely.

UK innovator visa and Start-Up visa need to be made much easier and many more visas need to be made available.  Perhaps tens of thousands of visas.  Not just 1,000 plus visas.  Even if you include the allocation of Tier 1 Exceptional Talent visas the total number will probably not be more than about 3,000 to 4,000 UK visas.  Are these UK visa categories there so that the Government can pretend that they want more technology people and entre

Businesses and overseas skilled workers depend on the Tier 2 Sponsor Licence and 2 visa system. As we have said many times before it is a complex, expensive and bureaucratic process applying under the Tier 2 visa system.  If this is to become more business-friendly and become a fairer system there has to be drastic changes to the UK visa system. If Brexit does actually happen the system should be able to deal with the increased need for UK work visas.

The problem we have is that UK Government fees are already huge.  On top of this if there are even more fees to pay this makes applying for an UK visa even more unaffordable.  The UK has some of the highest visa related fees in the World.  To apply for indefinite leave to remain in the UK for a family of four costs about £10,000.  More if you pay for the Super Priority visa service.

There was a fourty-five percent increase in the number of applications for endorsement for the UK Tier 1 Exceptional Talent visas submitted to Tech Nation, who deal with applications for the digital technology industry.  However, the number of endorsements granted by Tech Nation one of the Endorsing Bodies is very small. Only about three hundred endorsements were approved for applicants from the Tech Industry in the last year by Tech Nation out of about 650 applications. 

According to a report by the Financial Times UK Visa and Immigration at the Home Office is using potentially discriminatory software algorithms to decide on UK visa applications.  The algorithm could lead to racial discrimination and age discrimination.  There have been numerous concerns that the Home Office and those sponsored by the Home Office have been involved in racially discriminatory practices.