Showing posts with label Cap on UK Immigration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cap on UK Immigration. Show all posts

Tuesday, 13 December 2011

UK Visa| Video Footage on the Eurozone Act

UK Minister for Europe talks about the Eurozone Act 2011 and explains a little about the Act. The intended treaty is meant to set to enable European countries to set up a Euro-zone Stability Mechanism, which is meant to secure financial stability in the EU.



Thursday, 29 September 2011

UK Foreign Office Video Footage: Foreign Secretary

UK Foreign Secretary talks about the largest attempt the UK Foreign Office is undergoing to improve the reach, ability and other useful diplomatic skills that the foreign office needs to reinforce their network around the world.



UK Visa and Immigration news:

There is a disruption to the UK Points Based System and the system will only be back online on the 1 October 2011, this may affect Tier 2 applications. Any Tier 2 or related applications should wait until the system is back online to proceed.

Thursday, 22 September 2011

Carers of British Citizens Judgement Explanation

The Court of Justice of the EU recently confirmed the judgement on a case of Ruiz Zambrano.


The judgement basically allows the right of residence, for the carer of the Dependent UK citizen in the circumstance when the carer has no other claim to residence in the UK and the removal from the UK would mean that the UK citizen would need to leave the EU.

The UK Immigration authorities will now need to change the immigration regulations and enable a person in this situation to be issued with a document that allows them to stay in the UK on the basis of the Ruiz Zambrano judgement.



As a temporary measure the UKBA will issue a certificate of application to people that can show:

Proof that the dependent person is UK citizen
Proof of the dependency between the carer applicant and the UK citizen
sufficient documentary evidence of the relationship between the carer and the UK citizen

The certificate is intended to allow the applicant to stay in the UK until the application is decided.

Monday, 20 December 2010

UK Courts Rules Interim Cap unlawful

The temporary Cap on non-EU workers entering the UK was introduced "unlawfully" according to High Court on 17th December 2010.

The temporary cap was challenged on the basis that ministers had not gone through the proper parliamentary procedures and "sidestepping" parliamentary approval.

The JCWI (Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants) and English Community Care Association were responsible for the challenge that was upheld by the Judges on Friday.

The Home Office stated that the ruling did not affect the permanent cap meant to be introduced in April next year.

What this means then is that the temporary cap is no longer meant to be in place although I have still not seen anything about this on the UKBA web site yet besides for the announcement itself.

Again the main points to be taken from this is that if you are looking to submit a Tier 1 or Tier 2 application that you do so as soon as possible.

Immigration Minister Damian Green was reported to have said "we will do all in our power to continue to prevent a rush of applications before our more permanent...."