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Keeping the peace at Christmas – top tips for shared parenting over the festive season
Lauren Evans
31 January 2013
Immigration Alert: Changes to Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) Route
On 30 January 2013, the UK Border Agency (UKBA) made a number of changes to the Immigration Rules for the Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) category to introduce a ‘genuine entrepreneur’ test. The changes will take effect on 31 January 2013 and will affect all applications decided after this date, even if they were submitted prior to 31 January 2013.
28 January 2013
Immigration Alert: Changes in the assessment of good character in citizenship applications
From 13 December 2012, changes were made to the Nationality Instructions that affect anyone applying for citizenship on or after that date. The main changes deal with criminality and how it is assessed in terms of the good character requirement in citizenship applications.
8 January 2013
Immigration Alert: Annual Certificates of Sponsorship for 6 April 2013 to 5 April 2014
The UK Border Agency (UKBA) is now sending out emails to Sponsors alerting them to the fact that they can apply for the next annual allocation of Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) for Tier 2 with effect from 6 January 2013. If your Authorising Officer does receive an email from the UKBA on this subject it will be from a “no-reply” email address and therefore may arrive as spam or junk mail.
20 December 2012
Immigration Alert: Changes to Job Centre Plus Advertising
At present sponsors are required to advertise their vacancies on Job Centre Plus before they can hire a foreign migrant to perform a non-shortage occupation role on a salary of less than £70,000.
19 December 2012
Immigration News Round Up 2012
2012 has been an eventful year for immigration with, amongst other things, 2 UK Border Agency (UKBA) consultations which related directly, or indirectly, to the work routes, as well as changes to the rules relating to family migration. In particular, there has been a complete overhaul of the Tier 2 job codes with an increase in skill level from NQF 4+ to NQF 6+, a proposed introduction of minimum salary levels for entry level occupations, the introduction of a 12 month cooling off period for points-based system migrants and changes to the rules on settling in the UK.