The Home Office has announced new fee increases to applications across the board from 9 April 2025.
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The Home Office has announced that anyone who still hasn't set up an eVisa should still be able to travel internationally with their expired BRP or EUSS BRC until 1 June 2025. After this date, travellers will be expected to have set up an eVisa to verify their immigration status when returning to the UK.
On 13 January 2025, the government unveiled its intention to explore how they can attract highly skilled AI workers from abroad. This was announced in response to the AI Opportunities Action Plan with 50 recommendations presented by Matt Clifford CBE.
The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal where a Skilled Worker argued that a refusal was procedurally unfair because they had not been told that their sponsor’s licence had been revoked. The case is Tammina & Anor v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2025] EWCA Civ 24.
The new ballot for the India Young Professionals Scheme visa opens at 2.30pm India Standard Time on 18 February 2025. It closes at 2.30pm India Standard Time on 20 February 2025.
In the past, workers would be issued with a vignette and a Biometric Residence Permit (BRP) which they had to collect from a Post Office. This has now changed as UKVI has ceased to issue BRPs. BRPs have been replaced with eVisas.
Asylum seekers may apply for permission to work if they have not received an initial decision on their claim within 12 months, but only if the delay was through no fault of their own.
On 10 February 2025, Home Office introduced changes to the good character guidance for those applying to naturalise as a British citizen. The changes will be effective for all citizenship applications made on or after 10 February 2025.
In an important case for the care sector, R (Hartford Care Group Ltd) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] EWHC 3308 (Admin), Hartford Care Group Ltd has successfully challenged the Home Office decision to refuse defined Certificate of Sponsorship requests.
From 2 January 2025, the “living costs” Students must hold to meet the financial requirement has increased.
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