UK Immigration Law

UK visa processing runs to published service standards — three weeks for most entry clearance including Skilled Worker and visitor visas, twelve weeks for…

There is no UK investor visa today. Tier 1 (Investor) closed in February 2022, and the new investment route trailed in press reports since…

A Certificate of Sponsorship is not a certificate at all — it is an electronic record a licensed employer creates for one worker, carrying…

A refused sponsor licence application and a revoked licence are different events with different consequences — but neither carries a right of appeal. Refusal…

A sponsor licence costs £611 for small or charitable sponsors and £1,682 for medium or large ones under the Home Office fee table in…

The Charity Worker visa is the UK’s volunteer visa in all but name: up to twelve months of unpaid voluntary work for a licensed…

A child born in the UK who lives here for their first ten years earns a statutory entitlement to British citizenship — whatever their…

Good character is naturalisation’s broadest requirement and its least forgiving: a sentence-based test for convictions, a ten-year lens on immigration conduct, financial probity checks…

A stateless person — recognised by no country as a national — has a dedicated UK route: Appendix Statelessness grants five years’ leave without…

Seven continuous years in the UK gives a child a route to status that does not depend on their parents’ immigration history — and…

The Child Student visa brings 4 to 17 year olds to the UK for independent school education: a £558 application, an unconditional school place,…

If your relationship has broken down because of domestic abuse and your immigration status depended on that relationship, you may be able to apply…