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Pearl Valley Solicitors, Pearl Valley Solicitors Limited, Suite 3. 5, Building No. 2, Universal Square Business Centre Devonshire Street North, Manchester (2026)

Pearl Valley Solicitors provide professional and expert legal advice and assistance in Immigration, Nationality, Asylum and Human Rights law, Family Law, Road Traffic Accident and Personal Injury claims matters.

07/08/2024

All BRP holders can now register for e-visas

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/online-immigration-status-evisa

You need to create a UKVI account to access your eVisa and share information about your immigration status and conditions, such as your right to work or rent in the UK, using the view and prove service

If you have a biometric residence permit (BRP) that expires on 31 December 2024, you can now create a UKVI account and access your eVisa. You should do this before the expiry date of your BRP.

You can use your travel document, such as a passport, or visa application reference number to create your UKVI account if you have lost your BRP card.

You should only request a replacement BRP if it has been lost or stolen and you have no other form of identity document to create a UKVI account.

If you have permission to stay in the UK, once you’ve created your UKVI account you will be able to sign in to the view and prove service to access your eVisa.

Information on eVisas and why you need one.

17/07/2023

Changes to the Student route and consequential changes to work route

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/statement-of-changes-to-the-immigration-rules-hc-1496-17-july-2023

Switching to skilled worker route

If you’re currently in the UK on a Student visa, you must also meet one of the following requirements:

* you have completed the course you were sponsored to study

* your job start date is after your course has finished
* you have studied for a PhD for at least 24 months

The Explanatory Memorandum states:

* Student route changes (dependants and switching)

* 6.5 The changes relating to the Student route, and consequential changes to work routes in this statement, will come into effect at 1500 on 17 July 2023, and therefore depart from the usual convention that changes to the Immigration Rules come into force no earlier than 21 days after their being laid in Parliament.

* 6.6 The Government considers this departure from that convention to be necessary and proportionate. The changes were announced in Parliament and widely reported on 23 May 2023 and there has therefore already been sufficient notice that the changes are taking place. Furthermore, the Government wishes to reduce the possibility of a large number of applications for dependants and switching being made in the 21 days usually available between Immigration Rules changes being laid and coming into force. The changes in relation to dependants will only apply to those students starting courses from 1 January 2024, so there will be no effect on those students making applications relating to courses starting in autumn 2023.

* 6.7 The other changes will be implemented on various dates from 7 August 2023 as detailed in the implementation section of the accompanying Statement of Changes.

Changes to the Student route and consequential changes to work routes

* 7.10 The following changes are being made to the student route in response to the Government’s commitment to reduce net migration:

* Removing the right for international students to bring dependants unless they are on postgraduate courses currently designated as research programmes; and

* Removing the ability for international students to switch out of the student route into work routes before their studies have been completed.

* 7.11 These changes preserve the ability for dependants already in the UK to extend their stay, and for international students on taught postgraduate courses beginning before 1 January 2024 to bring dependants. They also preserve existing exemptions for dependants of government-sponsored students and for dependent children who are born in the UK.

* 7.12 The switching restrictions will ensure that students are generally not switching in- country to another route until they have completed their courses. Students on courses at degree level or above will be able to apply before course completion to switch to sponsored work routes, as long as their employment start date is not before their course completion. Those studying towards PhDs will be able to switch after 24 months’ study.

Statement of changes to the immigration rules published on 17 July 2023.

24/06/2022

A child born in the UK who has been continuously resident for 7 years may qualify for immediate settlement on this route.

The Private Life route is for a person seeking permission to stay in the UK on the basis they have developed a Private Life in the UK.

26/05/2022

Children can now apply for a waiver of citizenship fees
Families who can’t afford British citizenship for their children can now get it for free. A new “citizenship fee waiver for individuals under 18” policy was published in 26 May 2022. It allows under-18s to apply to have the £1,012 fee on applications for registration as a British citizen waived. The policy applies where the fee is unaffordable because paying it would compromise the child’s essential living needs, although lots of supporting evidence is required.

Guidance on processing applications for a citizenship fee waiver for individuals under the age of 18.

Address

Pearl Valley Solicitors Limited, Suite 3. 5, Building No. 2, Universal Square Business Centre Devonshire Street North
Manchester
M126JH

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Website

http://pvsolicitors.co.uk/

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