UK Immigration News

Tens of thousands of EU citizens will be issued with 28-day UK immigration notices should they miss the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) deadline on 30 June. The warning notices will notify EU citizens, who fail to make an application for the EUSS within a week of the deadline, to apply or risk the consequences, including losing their rights to healthcare and employment.

 

UK Home Secretary, Priti Patel, has ordered the removal of unconscious bias training for Home Office staff, including those working in the UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) department. UKVI staff were offered the training in 2020 by Challenge Consultancy at a cost of £32,510.

 

Comments made by the UK’s potential new NHS chief to ‘make the NHS less reliant on foreign workers’ has been met with a huge backlash. NHS workers have hit back at Baroness Dido Harding who made a pledge to make the NHS less reliant on the UK immigration system if she is appointed to the role of Chief Executive of the National Health Service.

 

The UK Home Office has announced that COVID-19 adjusted UK immigration digital right to work checks will be extended to 31 August, 2021. The announcement comes following the government’s decision on 14 June, 2021 to delay the easing of lockdown restrictions and social distancing by four weeks.

 

The UK government has snubbed recommendations for COVID hospitality visas despite a growing staff crisis across the sector. Instead, ministers want employers to focus on training and investing in the domestic workforce and branded the idea of a coronavirus recovery visa as ‘inappropriate’ while thousands of staff remain on furlough.

 

The entry deadline to qualify for the new UK post-study work (PSW) visa has been extended. The move has been welcomed by Indian students - the largest group of international students enrolling at UK universities. The PSW visa, allows overseas students to work, or look for work, for two years after completing their studies.  

The revamped PSW visa was announced by Home Secretary, Priti Patel, in 2020 and is set to open for applications in July 2021.