20 August

It looks as though the Government is going to introduce yet another cost for UK employers sponsoring Tier 2 migrants. One of the measures in the new Immigration Bill which is currently going through Parliament is the “Immigration Skills Surcharge”, which is an additional charge that will, in some circumstances, be levied on employers from… Continue reading Immigration Skills Surcharge

20 August

A new report written by David Bolt, the Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, has the snappy title of “An Inspection of Home Office Outsourced Contracts for Escorted and Non-Escorted Removals and Cedars Pre-Departure Accommodation”...

20 August

There has for some years been a rule or policy in UK immigration law that when a foreign child who has no immigration status has lived in the UK for seven years (either having been born in the UK seven years previously or having come to the UK seven years previously), they may acquire some… Continue reading Children and the seven-year rule

20 August

As part of its project of tightening up on immigration the Government has introduced, under the Immigration Act 2014, a “right to rent” scheme, which has now come into force in England. The way that the scheme works is that private landlords must check the...