VISAS FOR UK
Our aim is to secure United Kingdom (UK) visas swiftly for private clients who require expert assistance in obtaining a fast and professional solution to their immigration status.
We are specialists in processing visa applications via the Home Office’s ‘fast track’ system.
We also offer specialist representation in Immigration Appeals to the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT).
Our constant contact with the ‘Public Enquiry Office’ at Croydon’s Lunar House, along with our commitment to keeping our immigration knowledge and skills up to date, ensures that we will assemble your documents, compile an effective application and submit it to the Home Office correctly and efficiently on your behalf.
VISA FOR VISITING THE UNITED KINGDOM
If you are intending to enter the United Kingdom (UK) as a visitor, then you are allowed to remain for a period of up to six months.
To come to the UK as a visitor you must be able to show that you:
- You only want to visit the United Kingdom for up to six months;
- You plan to leave the United Kingdom at the end of your visit;
- You have enough money to support and accommodate yourself without working, help from public funds or you will be supported and accommodated by relatives or friends;
- You do not intend to charge members of the public for services provided or goods received;
- You do not intend to study longer than six months and you can meet the cost of the return or onward journey.
- If you want to do business during your visit you also have to show that you:
1. normally live and work abroad and you have no plans to base yourself in the United Kingdom; and
2. do not plan to work, produce goods or provide services in the United Kingdom.
VISA FOR WORKING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
Typically, the Home Office will issue a work permit for a specific individual to perform a specific job. There are only certain types of work that will be considered, and only when the employer has been unsuccessful in recruiting a potential candidate from within the European Economic Area (EEA).
There are varying requirements which must be satisfied, dependent on the particular arrangements in force. In order to make a ‘Business and Commercial’ work permit application, the employer must:
- Be based in the UK.
- Employ the employee and have a genuine vacancy in the UK.
- You are responsible for the post and the delivery of any project or piece of work.
- The gross pay and conditions are what you would give a resident worker and meet the national minimum wage.
- The employment meets UK legislation and you have ensured that you and your employee have obtained any necessary registration or licensing.
- The person is suitably qualified or experienced enough to do the job.
- There are no suitably qualified or experienced resident workers available.
The employee must satisfy the following:
- A UK degree level qualification.
- A higher national diploma (HND) level qualification, relevant to the post on offer.
- A HND level qualification, which is not relevant to the post on offer, plus one year of relevant full-time work experience at national/Scottish vocational qualification (N/SVQ) level three or above.
VISA FOR STUDYING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
To become a student in the UK, you will be required to have been accepted onto a course of study (minimum 15 hours of study per week) provided by an institution registered with the UKBA as a registered sponsor.
The requirements to be met by a person seeking leave to enter the UK as a student are that he:
- Has been accepted for a course of study, or a period of research, which is to be provided by or undertaken at an organisation which is registered with the UKBA as a licensed sponsor and is at either;
- a publicly funded institution of further or higher education which maintains satisfactory records of enrolment and attendance of students and supplies these to the Border and Immigration Agency when requested; or
- an independent fee paying school outside the maintained sector which maintains satisfactory records of enrolment and attendance of students and supplies these to the Border and Immigration Agency when requested; and
- Is able and intends to follow either:
- a recognised full-time degree course or postgraduate studies at a publicly funded institution of further or higher education; or
- a period of study and/or research in excess of 6 months at a publicly funded institution of higher education where this forms part of an overseas degree course; or
- a weekday full-time course involving attendance at a single institution for a minimum of 15 hours organised daytime study per week of a single subject, or directly related subjects; or
- a full-time course of study at an independent fee paying school; and
- If under the age of 16 years is enrolled at an independent fee paying school on a full time course of studies which meets the requirements of the Education Act 1944; and
- If he has been accepted to study externally for a degree at a private education institution, he is also registered as an external student with the UK degree awarding body; and
- He holds a valid Academic Technology Approval Scheme (ATAS) clearance certificate from the Counter-Proliferation Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office which relates to the course, or area of research, he intends to undertake and the institution at which he wishes to undertake it; if he intends to undertake either,
- Intends to leave the United Kingdom at the end of his studies; and
- Does not intend to engage in business or to take employment, except part-time or vacation work undertaken with the consent of the Secretary of State; and
- Is able to meet the costs of his course and accommodation and the maintenance of himself and any dependants without taking employment or engaging in business or having recourse to public funds; and
- Holds a valid United Kingdom entry clearance for entry in this capacity.
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