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19/03/2025

New UK visa fees, effective 9 April 2025. Most fees are rising by between 5% and 7%.
*Unlike the Home Office our fees will not be increasing.

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31/01/2024

INCOME and IMMIGRATION HEALTH SURCHARGE (IHS) INCREASES

The new Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS) increases of £1035 and £776 for children and students comes into force from 6 February 2024. This will apply to all applications made from this date.

For those applying to come to the UK to join their spouses/partners/fiancé(e)s, the new salary for the sponsor will be £29k from 11 April 2024. The current government has stated this will later rise to £34k and eventually £38.7k “by early 2025”. Those already on the family routes will be unaffected.

Care workers will not be able to bring in their dependents from 11 March 2024.

Skilled Workers, except those on health and care visas, will need to meet £38.7k income requirements or the going rate, which ever is the higher, from 4 April 2024.

If you want to meet the above deadlines, get in touch as soon as possible on [email protected] Messenger and WhatsApp on +447946383428

30/01/2024

The rise in the minimum income requirement for family/spouse visas to £29,000pa comes into force on 11th April 2024.

Information from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports.

18/01/2024

Immigration Health Surcharge increase set for 6th February.

The Immigration (Health Charge) (Amendment) Order 2024 passed into law on 16 January 2024 and is now available on legislation.gov.uk. The new rates will apply to applications made on or after 6 February 2024, which is 21 days after the order became law. The 'normal' surcharge will increase from £62...

22/12/2023

The minimum salary for a family to come to the UK will increase in two stages, the prime minister says.

06/12/2023

Massive income requirements from spring 2024 and other updates

Home Secretary James Cleverly announced on 04-12-2023 the following changes from spring 2024, although some are already in place:

1. Skilled Workers to be offered the highest income of: £38,700, going rate for the job or the minimum/living wage. In practice you can forget the minimum wage since the weekly hours will be about 70. The health and care sector are exempt from this.

2. Spouses/partners to also earn £38,700. Rationally this should apply to entry clearance applications, but the PM today (05-12-2023) said it will apply to others renewing their visas https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/foreign-spouse-migration-crackdown-earn-b2458988.html?fbclid=IwAR3xsBCYjQhNkK7X6dtpiY2zArdeiikZTtpori6hBVybeoumdeceoGLsRqk.

3. Health care worker will not be able to bring their dependents.

4. Jobs on Shortage Occupation List could be paid 20% less previously. In future this discount will not apply. This list is expected to be trimmed back.

5. Immigration health surcharge to increase to £1035 from £624 pa. These will come into force within 3 weeks of 16-01-2024. For spouse entry clearance, 33 months leave, will be charged £3105 instead of £1872. In the visa fees increase on 04-10-2023 the in-country fees were not increased for some legal hitch. I expect will be resolved and fees will increase.

6. The switch to the 2 years Graduate visa - colloquially known as PSW - for those who have successfully completed their degree courses i.e. will/are being awarded degrees is under the microscope. The Government says there is abuse, so expect changes.

7. Students only on research courses such as PhD and some masters by research will be able to bring their dependents. This comes into force from January 2024

8. Students were barred from switching to Skilled Worker routes before completing their studies. This guillotine came down on 17-07-2023 at 3pm.

Our advice, as always, has been that applicants should act at the first opportunity. Consequences of delays are painful.

We are ready to assist you.

Crackdown denounced as ‘morally wrong’ and ‘unconservative’

22/03/2023

19/09/2022

We express our sadness at the passing of Her Majesty, The Queen.

In her honour we will be closed today.

HM Queen Elizabeth II 1926-2022.

*photo from when our Director Mr Sahil had the privilege during the state visit to the UAE in November 2010.