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23/01/2023

We are now situated at 26 Yarm Road, Stockton on Tees, TS18 3NA all other details remain the same!

03/01/2021

New statement of changes a must read lots of new changes re-workers and visitors. Free movement have a great course which covers the changes.

Statement of changes to the Immigration Rules published on 31 December 2020.

31/12/2020

To All our clients and followers, thank you for all your support this past year, which has been very difficult for everyone. Happy New Year and all the very best for 2021

24/12/2020

Merry Christmas and a prosperous 2021 to all from EIS 🎄🎄🎄

04/11/2020

Following the Government's announcement from tomorrow we will be closed to the public. We will be working from home and business will run as normal as is possible. Thank you to our clients for your patience through this troubling time.

31/10/2020

To all my clients and visitors to the office we will updating everyone regarding the lockdown from Monday!!

02/08/2020

Celebrating 4 years in business. It’s been a long Road so far but what a ride here’s to the next 4 🎉 🎊 🥳

19/06/2020

This might help the asylum community if this JR is successful. At least it will give them an opportunity to support themselves rather than on the state.

The High Court has granted permission for a judicial review challenge to the rules on when asylum seekers are allowed to work in the UK.

09/06/2020

Coronavirus Update - please pass this on

Some important announcements today by the Home Office;

Fiancés, fiancées or proposed civil partners

If you’re here with 6 months’ leave as a fiancé, fiancée or proposed civil partner and your wedding or civil ceremony has been delayed due to coronavirus you can either request an extension until 31 July by updating your records with the Coronavirus Immigration Team, or apply to extend your stay for a further 6 months to allow the ceremony to take place.

Changes to the minimum income and adequate maintenance requirement

If you have experienced a loss of income due to coronavirus, you will not be disadvantaged.

We will consider employment income for the period immediately before the loss of income due to coronavirus, provided the requirement was met for at least 6 months up to March 2020.

If your salary has reduced because you’re furloughed, we will take account of your income as though you’re earning 100% of your salary.

If you’re self-employed, a loss of annual income due to coronavirus between 1 March 2020 and 31 July 2020 will generally be disregarded, along with the impact on employment income from the same period for future applications.

If you’re unable to provide specified documents

In some cases, we will be able to decide your application without seeing certain specified documents if you cannot get them due to coronavirus. Otherwise, you may be asked to submit the specified documents after the date of application.

Changes to the English language requirement

If you’re asked to take an English language test as part of your application, you can apply for an exemption if the test centre was closed or you couldn’t travel to it due to coronavirus when you applied.

This is advice for visa customers and applicants in the UK, visa customers outside of the UK and British nationals overseas who need to apply for a passport affected by travel restrictions associated with coronavirus.

02/06/2020

29/05/2020

Visa centres overseas (UPDATED 28 May)
All UK visa application centres overseas are closed but some are about to re-open.

VFS Global, which runs some of the centres on behalf of the British government, tweeted on 31 March: “Please be advised that our UK visa services have been suspended globally until further notice”. That tweet was deleted in late May, when the company announced a “phased resumption of services in certain Visa Application Centres” from 1 June. They are:

Brisbane
Canberra
Melbourne
Perth
Sydney
Beijing
Chongqing
Guangzhou
Shanghai
Suva
Hong Kong
Kuala Lumpur
Taipei
Bangkok

The other outsourcing company that runs visa application centres overseas, TLScontact, does not have such a list. Applicants can go to the company’s UK website and select the country they are applying from to bring up the status of the application centre(s) in that country.

27/05/2020

In-country biometric service points open, those in our area - Newcastle this no longer an option and now need to re-book appointments when this is available. All persons who had one booked in Newcastle or another centre not on this list will now need to check e-mails

The following Service Points will re-open on the 1st June:

Birmingham (Core)
Birmingham - Premium Lounge
Chelmsford
Exeter
Leeds
London - Croydon (Core)
London - Premium Lounge (Mark Lane)
London - ESP (Mark Lane)
London - Victoria
Manchester Fountain Street ESP
Manchester - Premium Lounge
Sheffield
Southampton