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Longer explanations of UK visa routes and the questions our clients ask most.
An EU Settlement Scheme refusal can happen for several reasons, including insufficient evidence of UK residence, an unproven family relationship, fail...
A human rights appeal is an appeal to the First-tier Tribunal against a Home Office decision to refuse a human rights claim. Most commonly, this invol...
You can change employer on a Skilled Worker visa, but it is a new visa application, not an HR handover. Your new employer needs a valid sponsor licenc...
Most UK visit, study and work visa applications made from outside the UK are listed by the Home Office at around 3 weeks, while many applications made...
There is no separate UK business visitor visa. Business travel to the UK usually runs through the UK Standard Visitor visa, under a specific set of pe...
The ADR visa lets a parent, grandparent, adult child or sibling of a British or settled person come to the UK because they need long-term personal car...
You can apply to settle in the UK after five continuous years on a UK Ancestry visa, and that has not changed. As of September 2026, the five-year rou...
If you are coming to the UK to marry or form a civil partnership and then leave, the Marriage Visitor visa is designed for that purpose. If you are ap...
For most new UK spouse and partner visa applicants, the minimum income requirement is £29,000 gross a year. That figure applies where the first succes...
A refused Standard Visitor visa does not necessarily prevent you from applying again, but the next step depends on why the application failed. An ordi...
An urgent family bereavement can put someone with a pending immigration application in a difficult position. Travelling abroad may have serious conseq...
The SOC code used for a Skilled Worker application affects whether the job is eligible for sponsorship and which going rate applies. Since 22 July 202...
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