🇬🇧 1 week to go - new immigration system 1 December 2020!

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Dear customers of 1st 4Immigration and Multi Travel Visas,
 
 
The new Points-Based Immigration System is about to come in force in just 1 week’s time - 1st December 2020. It mainly affects the work migrants, such as those sponsored by their UK employers. As we mentioned earlier, it is being made easier and faster to sponsor foreign workers with the same rules applying to workers from all over the world, i.e. both Europeans and non-Europeans. Yes, the EU citizens will now need visas to work and live in the UK (as well as to study, join family etc).  However, the new system will make it easier for all workers - including non-EU citizens - to come and work in the UK. Or to remain in the UK by switching from another visa category, such as Tier 5 YMS, Tier 2 ICT and even from a family visa, none of these was possible until now.  
 
A quick reminder of what’s being made easier: no annual limit on the number of work visas, no need to advertise jobs to settled workers prior to choosing a migrant, no cap on the number of years spent in the UK. Plus, a wider range of acceptable jobs, lower salary thresholds (still subject to going rates) and tradable points in some cases, such as for jobs in shortage occupations. 
 
We also have a Health and Care ‘NHS visa’ now in place, a Hong Kong BNO visa coming in January 2021, and a promise of the revived Post-Study Work visa from summer 2021! 
  

 

 

1st 4Immigration team 

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