Immigration Review

The UK Business Visit visa, now known as the Standard Visitor visa under the new immigration system, allows visa holders to visit the UK for up to six months to undertake certain business activities. In this podcast, our employment law team, along with Satinder Gill (Five Paper), take a look at what these business activities include, the eligibility criteria for business visitors, what UK sponsors need to be aware of, and who is eligible to apply.

The Graduate Visa was introduced over the summer to enable the best and brightest foreign students to remain in the UK and seek employment without the need for sponsorship. It's also an interesting route for employers, as it means they can hire these graduates for up to three years before deciding whether to sponsor them or not. In this podcast, Angharad Aspinall and Satinder Gill sum up what you need to know if you're planning to recruit on this visa – including eligibility criteria, right to work checks, and restrictions on the type of work applicants can undertake.

In this episode we discuss why and when employers need to carry out right to work checks, and how changes to the guidance impacts the process.

Once a business has a licence, it will be able to sponsor workers. At the moment, businesses usually sponsor via two main routes; Skilled Worker and Tier 2 Intra Company Transfer. This podcast will focus on the Skilled Worker route. To be eligible to recruit a worker on this visa, the sponsor must ensure a number of things; the applicant can speak English at the required level, the applicant has a job offer from the sponsor, that the job meets the minimum skill level and the minimum salary level.

In our last podcast, we talked about the differences in the old and new systems. In this episode we provide an overview of the EU settlement scheme. We cover the application process, the differences between settled and pre-settled status, and timescales applicants should be aware of in terms of time spent out of the UK.

In our last podcast, we talked about how businesses could recruit workers who are not settled in the UK by applying for a sponsor licence. In this webinar we look at the differences in the old and new systems.

In this episode Alex Christen (Capital Law) and Satinder Gill (Five Paper) look at what options are available to employers hoping to recruit workers who are non-British nationals, to work in the UK.