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Tag: Skilled worker visa

Hiring Workers from Abroad: What UK Employers Need to Know
Business Immigration

Hiring Workers from Abroad: What UK Employers Need to Know

27 July 2024

Are you thinking about hiring someone from outside the UK? It's important to understand the rules and responsibilities that come with sponsoring a worker's visa. Let's go through this in a simple way.

A Comprehensive Guide to the UK Skilled Worker Visa
Business Immigration

A Comprehensive Guide to the UK Skilled Worker Visa

27 February 2024

What is a Skilled Worker Visa? Recruiting skilled talent remains crucial for UK businesses, and the Skilled Worker Visa route offers a valuable pathway to attract workers from overseas. The Skilled Worker visa allows employers to sponsor non-UK nationals for skilled roles on the government’s eligible occupations list. The visa offers flexibility, with options for […]

A Guide to Sponsor Licence Applications
Business Immigration

A Guide to Sponsor Licence Applications

28 March 2023

The main visa route available for non-British and Irish nationals wanting to work in the UK is now the Skilled Worker visa. The Skilled Worker visa is a sponsorship system: a foreign worker cannot simply apply for this visa unaided. Applicants need a job offer from a UK-based organisation willing to employ them before they […]

What is the UK Start-Up route and who is it aimed at?
Business Immigration

What is the UK Start-Up route and who is it aimed at?

22 August 2022

The UK Start-up route is a business immigration visa aimed at individuals who want to set up a business in the UK for the first time. They don’t need to be a graduate or have secured any initial funding in order to apply for the visa. However, you will need to have an innovative, viable, […]

Investor Visa Scrapped!
Business Immigration

Investor Visa Scrapped!

18 February 2022

The UK Government announced yesterday that the Investor visa would be scrapped with immediate effect due to money laundering concerns. In this post, we look at ‘investor visa scrapped’. What was the Investor Visa? The Investor visa provided a route for high-net-worth individuals to live and work in the UK if they invested at least […]

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