UK Immigration News

Between December 2017 and March 2018, 6,080 Tier 2 visa applications were made by skilled overseas workers to fill job roles in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). However, more than 3,000 applications received were rejected by UK immigration authorities.

Now that Israeli-Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich another tier 1 investor has now decided to leave the UK and live in Israel and Russia, will this discourage Chinese nationals from coming to the UK under the £2 million pound tier 1 investor visa scheme? The UK Visas and Immigration it seems is scrutinising the source of funds for tier 1 investors more than ever before. What will happen in 2018 and 2019 we wonder?

Sajid Javid the Home Secretary whose family is of muslim Pakistani ancestry has recently raised hopes that doctors from outside the EU will find it easier to gain entry to the UK under the tier 2 visa scheme. However, it is not certain what will happen after the intended tier 2 visa review.

EU politicians have quashed Britain’s hopes of introducing a new UK immigration and Visa system on Brexit day. Brussels is insisting that Britain will have to agree to the ‘entire’ European rulebook during a two-year implementation period on membership terms from 2019.

It is less than a year to go until Brexit and there is still some uncertainty about what will happen to EU migrants in the UK. It still seems likely that EU citizens in the UK before Brexit actually happens will be allowed to stay in the UK.

In a potentially bold move by Brussels to claim the moral high ground during Brexit negotiations with the UK, earlier this year President of the European Commission (EC), Jean-Claude Juncker has announced that the EC is considering covering the expected £72 application cost for EU nationals seeking to settle in Britain, post-Brexit.

An email sent earlier this year to staff at the University of York has sparked concerns that academics are being put in a position of makeshift UK border guards. The email urges personnel at the university to check the UK visa status of foreign visitors, raising fears about the increasingly strict enforcement of immigration rules in UK higher education institutions.