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 licence, a new Certificate of Sponsorship, and a role that meets the salary, occupation and skill rules. You must apply and wait for approval before you start the…
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 from inside the UK are listed at 8 weeks. Family applications and settlement run longer. These are service standards and published processing times, not guarantees, and real-world waits…
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 permitted business activities, and the test that matters is simple to state but easy to get wrong in practice. You can attend, negotiate and advise. You cannot do the…
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 care. It is one of the hardest routes in the system, with success rates reported by practitioners at under 5 per cent. Almost all of that difficulty sits in…
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 route to indefinite leave to remain is still in force, despite the proposed earned settlement reforms. You can normally apply up to 28 days before completing the…
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 applying from abroad to marry in the UK and then remain here with an eligible partner, the fiancé route is normally the appropriate family route, followed…
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 successful partner-route application was made on or after 11 April 2024. It can be met through permitted income, cash savings or, in some circumstances, a combination of the two. There is…
A refused Standard Visitor visa does not necessarily prevent you from applying again, but the next step depends on why the application failed. An ordinary Standard Visitor refusal generally carries no right of appeal and the Visitor route is not included among the routes eligible for administrative review. In most cases, the practical option is…
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 2025, most new Skilled Worker jobs must be skilled to RQF level 6 or above, although exceptions apply to eligible occupations on the Immigration Salary List, Temporary Shortage List and…
Children under 18 become British citizens by registration if they are not already British. Naturalisation is an adult route, but turning 18 does not always make it the only option: some registration entitlements, including section 1(4), remain available to adults. The child registration fee is £1,000. See British citizenship after ILR. Entitlement or discretion Some…
