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23/08/2025

Dream of studying in the UK?

🌍 The Chevening Scholarship offers a fully funded one-year Master’s at any UK university.

✅ Flights | Tuition | Accommodation

📅 Application open: 5 Aug 2025 | Close: 7 Oct 2025

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21/08/2025

In the year 2024, the overall asylum grant rate in the UK stood at 39%.

Source: Free Movement.

19/08/2025

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How to Get Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) as a Dependent Partner in UK?

You may be able to apply for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) as a dependent partner if:

1️⃣You have spent 5 years as a dependent (of the same partner)

AND

2️⃣Your partner has already gained ILR OR is applying for ILR at the same time as you.

Important: It’s 5 years as a dependent in total, not just on one visa route.

This means you can count time spent as a dependent on different visa categories, such as:
✔️Student
✔️Graduate
✔️Global Talent
✔️Innovator Founder
✔️Skilled Worker

🙇🏼‍♂️Example: If you were a Graduate Dependent for 2 years, then switched to Skilled Worker Dependent for 3 years, this can add up to your 5 years.

⚠️ But remember You cannot apply for ILR before your partner.

Even if you complete 5 years as a dependent, you must wait until your partner qualifies.

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Remember…..
👉 Rules are different for dependent children (we’ll cover that in a future post).

14/08/2025

10/08/2025

🇬🇧 UK Visa Refusal Reasons.

What do you need to know?

08/08/2025

UK to Crack Down on Student Visa Abuse.

From next month UK universities face fines if international students abuse visas to claim asylum.

There were 16000 asylum claims by foreign students in 2024, many near visa expiry.

There will be more focus on Pakistan, Nigeria & Sri Lanka with social media & bank checks.

£12.1bn annual income at stake for universities.

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07/08/2025

4 Things You Can Do on a UK Visit Visa as an International Job Seeker

1️⃣Apply for jobs
2️⃣Attend interviews
3️⃣Accept a job offer
4️⃣Work remotely for an overseas company (as long as it’s not your main reason for visiting)

If you receive a sponsored job offer, you must leave the UK and apply for a Skilled Worker visa from outside the country.

🚫 You cannot switch visas from within the UK on a visit visa.
🚫 You cannot start UK employment on a visit visa.

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06/08/2025

UK visa. IHS refund procedure:

If you are switching your visa? You can get Your IHS Refund…

How?

If you have got 6+ months left on your old visa? You could get money back for your Immigration Health Surcharge.

✅ Pay IHS for your new visa first.
✅ Then email your old & new application details to:

📧 [email protected]

Refunds are not always automatic — so claim it!

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