22 November 2022
Changes to the Immigration Rules – Impacts on Creative Workers
On the 18th of October 2022, the Home Office published a Statement of Changes. This statement set out amendments to several immigration categories which primarily took effect on 9th November 2022. This blog looks at the amendments that will impact the creative sector specifically.
16 November 2022
How might the Autumn Statement use the immigration system as a tool for growth?
Talk last week that prime minister Rishi Sunak is considering a growth visa for skilled migrants, an idea previously championed by Liz Truss, is likely to be welcomed by employers struggling to recruit talent.
1 September 2022
Up, up and away – the new Scale-up visa
When it comes to naming immigration categories, UKVI has really upped its game - UK Expansion Worker has replaced the wordy Representative of an overseas business, and yet another immigration category with a jazzy name, Scale-up, was introduced on 22 August 2022. But unfortunately, as with UK Expansion Worker, once we look beyond the catchy name, the Scale-up category contains a number of potential shortcomings.
22 June 2022
Windrush Day 2022
The 22nd June is now officially the day we “celebrate” Windrush. As I have written previously, it’s also to recognise the catastrophic mistake made by the government when they wrongly denied people the right to stay in the UK. The Windrush Report was commissioned to investigate how the immigration services managed to make such a huge mistake and gave recommendations with a view to those mistakes not happening again. I would argue that the government doesn’t seem to have incorporated the recommendations from the report, which is incredibly disappointing.
13 May 2022
Supporting Ukraine: Kingsley Napley is organising a Ukrainian lunch to support British Schools and Homes for Ukrainians
It has now been over two months since Russia launched its military invasion of Ukraine. Since then, thousands of people have died, towns and cities have been destroyed and 13 million people have been displaced. As a result, people around the World have mobilised to help in any way they can and Kingsley Napley also wants to play its part.