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  • Making a UK fiancé(e) visa application, and extending as a spouse

    In this post we consider how to enter the UK as the fiancé(e) or a proposed civil partner, and then extend your visa as a spouse once you are here.

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  • Applying for a Tier 2 Sponsor Licence

    In this series we are looking at the process companies need to go through if they want to recruit a foreign national from overseas.

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  • How to get your records from the Home Office

    This post looks at making a Subject Access Request to the Home Office, also known as a Freedom of Information Act request, or colloquially known as ‘getting a copy of your file’.

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  • Do you need a Tier 2 Sponsor Licence?

    In this series we will look at the process companies need to go through if they want to recruit a foreign national from overseas.

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  • How to extend your Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) visa: business activity

    In order for a Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) to extend their visa in the UK, they need to meet three broad requirements

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  • How to extend your Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) visa: job creation

    Since 2010, Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) extension applications have had an average refusal rate of almost 50%, almost certainly due to complex documentary requirements relating to investment, job creation and business activity. Here we look at job creation.

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  • How to extend your Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) visa: investment

    In order for a Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) to extend their visa in the UK, they need to meet three broad requirements

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  • Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) services

    Applying for a Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) extension or switching into the route

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  • Evidencing 'genuine and subsisting' relationships

    This post is for individuals making UK visa applications based on a relationship with a partner. It gives guidance and ideas as to what evidence might be collected to meet the 'genuine and subsisting relationship' requirement.

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  • Tier 1 (Entrepreneurs): working 9-5?

    Tier 1 (Entrepreneurs) must ‘genuinely operate their business’. But what does that look like in terms of time commitment?

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  • What is a UK ‘bank’?

    When Tier 1 (Entrepreneurs) apply to extend their visas, they are required to provide as a part of their application confirmation that their business has a UK bank account (Appendix A, 39(c)(iii)).

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  • Payroll and the job creation requirement

    In R (Khajuria) v SSHD [2019] EWHC 1226, an Indian entrepreneur had created the jobs necessary to extend her visa but her application was refused because she was unable to provide payroll information in the exact form required.

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