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Compliance update: new sponsor duties

The Home Office has updated guidance on sponsor duties and compliance. Sponsors should ...

Keeping Your Sponsor Licence

In this article for Care Home Management Magazine, Managing Partner Samar Shams highlig...

Skilled Worker rules changes effective 4 April 2024

The Government has published the rules changes for Skilled Worker visas. All changes di...

UK business immigration update webinar Spring 2024

In this interactive session, UK immigration expert Samar Shams, Managing Partner was jo...

The Immigration Salary List – What’s the points?

The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC)’s recently published several warnings to the Gov...

UK-Nigeria economic partnership deal

On 13 February 2024, the UK signed a trade partnership with Nigeria to establish a stro...

UK business visitor changes

Immigration Rules and guidance around business visits to the UK have been relaxed to al...

Questions for Immigration Lawyers Right to Work Checks and Illegal Working

Do you have a tricky right to work question? Managing Partner Samar Shams has contribut...

Impact of the expansion of Visitor visa and the Youth Mobility Scheme routes on net migration

On 7 December 2023, the UK government published changes to the Immigration Rules, impac...

Is it time to abolish the shortage occupation list?

The Shortage Occupation List (SOL) supplements the main work visa route, Skilled Worker...

Update on the new immigration laws and their impact on social care

Please join Managing Partner Samar Shams for an update on the new immigration laws and ...

Planned and potential policy changes affecting care homes in 2024

In her article for Care Home Management Magazine, Managing Partner Samar Shams highligh...

Computer says ‘probably not’ – UK Electronic Travel Authorisations

What is the pre-travel authorisation scheme for visitors to the UK? The UK has introduc...

Book Review – How Mass Migration Will Reshape the World

Parag Khanna’s book, Move: How Mass Migration Will Reshape the World- and What it Means...

Updated summary of five-point plan to reduce net migration 24.04.2024

This article was published on 12 December 2023 and updated on 24 April 2024. On 4 Decem...

Immigration Update Webinar

In this interactive session, Managing Partner Samar Shams and Trainee Anna Asumadu brok...

EU Settlement Scheme status to be granted automatically

Pre-settled status will be automatically extended by 2 years before it is due to expire...

The Do’s and Don’ts of dealing with sponsored worker visa fee increases

Samar Shams, Managing Partner at Changes Immigration, considers how businesses can acco...

Student Visa Changes in Effect Now – CHM September 2023

In her article in Care Home Management Magazine, Managing Partner Samar Shams makes sen...

Illegal working fines are going up: Are you checking right to work correctly?

In this short video, Managing Partner Samar Shams shares top tips for protecting your b...

When more is less: Visa and Immigration Health Surcharge fee increases

During a Parliamentary debate on 13 July 2023, Chief Secretary to the Treasury John Gle...

Immigration Rules changes: Students’ eligibility for work visas, construction roles on the Shortage Occupation List, and extending pre-settled status

Students restricted from switching and bringing dependants New rules published at 3pm o...

What is love: Work visa dependants to be assessed under different criteria

From 25 July 2023, the Home Office will assess work visa holders’ relationships with th...

Talent strategies: Focus on the Scale-Up visa

Changes to the Scale-up visa route and trends in sponsorship make Scale-up sponsorship ...

Construction workers to be added to the Shortage Occupation List

Following the Spring Budget 2023, the UK government commissioned Migration Advisor Comm...

The Graduate visa – A quick overview

The Graduate visa, also known as the post-study work visa, allows international student...

UK adopts pre-travel authorisation requirement for visitors

The UK government has officially announced the launch of an ‘Electronic Travel Authoris...

The Innovator Founder visa

The Innovator Founder visa replaced the Innovator visa on 13 April 2023. The Start-Up v...

Round-up of sponsorship changes

New Immigration Rules and Home Office guidance relating to sponsorship of Skilled Worke...

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