UK Immigration Law

Section 94B certification does not remove your appeal — it requires you to bring it from outside the UK. The power, the two-limb test, who it is used against, and Kiarie and Byndloss.

A civil penalty notice for illegal working starts at £45,000 for each worker named, and you have 28 days to object. On 27 July…

Every UK settlement journey runs on one of three clocks: accelerated three-year routes for talent and founders, the five-year mainstream — work, family, BN(O),…

A certificate of entitlement proves the right of abode — the right to live in the UK free of immigration control — for people…

The ETA system quietly rewrote travel for British dual nationals: a British citizen cannot hold an ETA, so the foreign passport that used to…

Indefinite leave quietly dies abroad: two continuous years outside the UK lapses most ILR — five for EU Settlement Scheme settled status, four for…

Losing access to your UKVI account is the modern version of losing your visa — and both have administrative fixes. Account recovery restores an…

The UK’s temporary worker visas are seven different routes wearing one label: Seasonal Worker, Creative Worker, Religious Worker, Charity Worker, Government Authorised Exchange, International…

There is no amnesty for overstayers in the UK — and there are real routes out of irregular status: the 20-year private life rule,…

A re-entry ban is a fixed period during which an application for entry clearance must be refused. Its length does not depend on what…

Almost every UK immigration route now asks for English at a stated CEFR level. Which level depends on the route, and a test is…

Part 9 of the Immigration Rules no longer exists. Since 11 November 2025 the general grounds for refusal have sat in a new Part…