VISAEASE

You are obligated to apply for Spouse, Fiancé, Dependent family member visa for EU (European Union) citizens since January 1, 2021, if you would like to join your family member in the UK.

Since January 1, 2021, all EU citizens may need to apply for a UK visa depending on duration and purpose of their trip. Even if after checking you don't need to apply for a UK visa, you need to prepare necessary documents and take them with you. You may be asked these documents at the boarder in the UK.

In case you stay in the UK during the Covid-19, and your visa expires within the period from January 24, 2020 to July 31, 2020, you can request an extension for your visa until July 31, 2020. This rule was introduced due to travel restrictions and self-isolation.

When your 30 day visa to travel to the UK for work, study or to join family has expired, or is about to expire, it is possible to request a replacement of this 30 days visa with new dates for free until the end of 2020.

Since the 6th July 2019 you can no longer apply for UK Tier 1 Graduate Entrepreneur visa. It was replaced by UK Start-up visa. The main similarity in obtaining both two visas is that the applicant must have a unique idea for starting a business in the UK.

In June 2019 TLS Contact UK visa centre and Immigration Office have made some changes in submitting supporting documents for fiance, spouse, unmarried partner, child of a settled person UK visas.

The new system of documents electronic upload of the UK Visa Application Centre TLS Contact, introduced at the beginning of the 2019 year, leaves much to be desired.

Visa applicants, who submitted their UK visa application before January 31, 2019, will not be able to use the web-site of the TLS Contact UK visa centre to check the status of their visa application.

The UK has suspended the issuance of Tier 1 "golden visas" scheme to wealthy foreign investors until 2019. The UK government made this decision on Friday, 7 December.

On November 14, 2018, the UK Visa Application Center introduced a trial electronic document loading system. This option is valid for applicants who apply for a UK visa in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Yekaterinburg and Novosibirsk.

Since November 2, 2018, the commercial partner Sopra Steria has started to open 57 visa centers in the UK. There will be a transitional period when applicants applying for some types of UK visa will be able to choose between the new system and the old one when the documents are submitted by mail or through the Premium Center.

Since October 17, 2018, it has become obligatory to go on Gov.UK website to fill in UK visa application forms. Now Visa4uk.fco.gov.uk website is used certain visa types only.

Has Brexit an impact on tourists in the UK? Foreign tourists were less numerous late spring in the United Kingdom. Indeed, the number of foreign visitors, tourists and businessmen between April and June 2018 fell by 7.7%. This is the largest decline in almost a decade.

The right of more than 700 wealthy Russians to live in the UK with a Tier1 UK investor visa is under review as the british government mulls new ways of curtailing the power and influence of the Kremlin following the Salisbury poisonings.

International student numbers in UK ‘flatlining’ as it fails to compete against likes of US, France or Australia. British universities have called on the government to reintroduce a visa that would allow overseas students to stay in the country to work for up to two years after graduation.

The monthly CoS (Certificate of Sponsorship) allowance for a Tier 2 British visa was reached again in June, after 7 consecutive months of capping in its allocation. However, since doctors and nurses have been removed from the quota since July 6, 2018, there are technically more CoS available for july and even august.

At the end of 2016, the British Visa Center changed the system for acceptance of documents for a British fiance visa and British spouse visa. From that moment, applicants must visit the visa center with the first sheet of the application form and with their passports. What to do with the rest of the documents? They must be sent to the UK by yourself.

The end of the school year is approaching and you have to prepare for the next term if you are a Tier4 student in the UK. This visa also allows you to bring your relatives under certain conditions, if they make a British visa Tier4 dependant.

Home Office just released a new pilot program for british Tier 4 visa on the 4th of june 2018. According to this program, a Tier4 student can qualify if his Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies (CAS) is for a master course at level 7, of 13 months or less, and issued by a specific list of universities. Those Students will benefit from documents differentiation that no longer need to be submitted. Also they benefit from a 6 months leave to enter UK at the end of their course.

With GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation ) in effect since May 25, the European Union strengthens and unifies the protection of personnal data for individuals in its member states. The British government has responded with the Data Protection Bill 2017, which includes a large number of exemptions from immigration control, in contrast to the openness of the GDPR.

Since December 2017, the Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) award cap were reached five months in a row before the end of each month. It is therefore much more difficult for Tier2 work visa applicants to get a positive answer, if they are not in Shortage Occupation List. Thus, the minimum salary required is also increasing, compromising the ability of many small businesses to hire.

It happens very often when applicants submit documents for a touristic visa, hiding the actual purpose of the trip. Thus, people believe that telling the truth about why they are travelling to the UK can complicate the process to get their visa.

Since January 2018 it is no longer needed to wait for your final exam results under your student TIER4 General visa to have the possibility to apply for a work TIER2 General visa from within the UK.

For those who follow the life of members of the royal family, and those who like large-scale events, the 19th of May will be one of the most anticipated moments of this year: Prince Harry and Megan Markle's Wedding.

To show or not to show you friends and relatives in the UK? That is the question. Unfortunately, many visa agencies take the easy path when they advise their clients. What do we mean? For example, a client has a boyfriend in the UK. The first advice that this client receives from such visa agencies is NOT to show her boyfriend in the UK.

If you wish to attend Wimbledon Tennis Championships in 2018, you can do it 2nd July till 15th July, 2018. This year the prize is more than 30 mln GBP. You will be able to watch the matches of players from more than 60 nations.

In March 2018 Gov.uk published the detailed statistics on how many UK visas were issued in 2017. A total of 2,710,000 visas were issued, 339,000 visas were refused.

TIER category (points based system) - is the British immigration opening for migrants to come to study and work in the UK. According to each TIER visa you need to obtain a certain amount of points. The points are awarded if you meet all the requirements.