Visa refusal for China expert Miwa Hirono
Poor decision from the Home Office results with Nottingham University losing their academic expert on China It has been reported that the Home Office’s visa refusal to allow a ‘high-flying academic expert on China’, who has advised the UK government, to remain in the UK has been described by one of her colleagues as “pure […]
Immigration Challenges for the Education Sector
2 April 2015, 10:00 – 10:30am Staff Immigration Compliance, Changes and Challenges for the Education Sector This session is aimed at higher and further education providers to address compliance issues, Right to Work Checks, and prevalent immigration concerns in respect of your PBS sponsored and non-sponsored migrant employees. With extensive experience of advising HR and […]
Working in the UK after Graduation
Working in the UK after Graduation Closure of the Tier 1 Post-Study Work (PSW) Visa – a visa category which enabled foreign students who had successfully completed their studies to stay and work in the UK for up to 2 years without the need for a Sponsor has been detrimental to the UK economy. In their latest […]
Bucks New University’s visa licence suspended
Bucks New University’s visa licence suspended The Home Office have issued new Guidance, following the recent suspicion on 9 March 2015 of the sponsor licence held by Buckinghamshire New University, because its application to renew their Highly Trusted Sponsor (“HTS”) status was refused. It seems the Home Office are continuing to adopt the ‘big stick’ […]
Interview for Tier 4 Student Visa UK
Below is a copy of a letter sent by UKVI regarding an Interview for Tier 4 Student Visa UK. “As you will be aware, we introduced a credibility assessment for Tier 4 applicants in the UK Autumn 2013. Since then we have been expanding the number of locations at which we can hold interviews across the […]
Tier 4 Student Appeal Update
Tier 4 Student Appeal Update They say there are only two certainties in life; taxes and death. We’d like to add two more; that statement of changes in immigration rules happen twice a year, May and October. Think of it as the Easter and Christmas of immigration but not much like either! Unless, one really […]
Academic Immigration Rankings
Academic Immigration Rankings Close to the start of each academic term we turn our attention to both the Academic Immigration Rankings of World Universities and the University Rankings as do our clients in the higher education sector. Undoubtedly the reasons are different but the goal is shared. As the immigration law firm of choice for […]
Immigration Higher Education – Good for the UK
Immigration Higher Education In his interview on Radio 4 yesterday, Lord Heseltine said non-EU students should be left out of official immigration figures to avoid the risk of damaging UK universities. Below is the article by Alan Soady detailed on BBC. His call was backed by Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, who said the net […]
Student Migration Statistics
Student Migration Statistics Earlier this summer, the Higher Education Policy Institute, an Oxford-based think tank, carried out a small survey among Conservative candidates of the May 2015 elections, excluding sitting MPs. Despite the sample size, the results were very interesting. We share them with you below to mark the fast approaching start of the new […]
Tier 4 Student Maintenance – Preparing for the Surge
Tier 4 Student Maintenance The Home Office has laid out actions academic institutions can take to prepare yourself and your students during this busy period. This year, the Home Office aims to deliver 100% of compliant cases within the 8 week service standard by: Increasing the number of trained staff processing Tier 4 applications; Introducing […]