UK Visas and British Citizenship

  If you are on a UK Skilled Worker visa (or its predecessor Tier 2), your immigration status is tied to your employer. If your job ends earlier than on your COS, through redundancy or loss of Sponsor licence, what are the options?     You have a 60-day grace period to either make a new visa application or leave the UK. If you find a new Sponsor, you can apply for a new Skilled Worker visa. Or you can switch to another category, if eligible , such as Global Talent, Student, Youth Mobility Scheme, High Potential Individual, even Start-up visa.    You can also switch to a Partner visa if you are married or in a relationship with someone who is British, settled in the UK, pre-settled EEA citizen; or someone with a Worker visa so you could be their dependant.    The same grace period applies if you choose to resign from your job. If you cannot do anything on time and have to leave the UK, you can come back as soon as you can meet the requirements again - there is no cooling-off period.   

  If you are looking to secure a UK Spouse, Partner or Fiancee visa quickly , there is a fast-track service! Applying outside the UK :  Priority service is finally back! It takes approximately 6 weeks, as opposed to the standard waiting time of up to 6 months. In practice, we have lately seen decisions within 3-4 months, but we are still often asked about the faster service. The Government charges extra £573 for this.  Applying inside the UK:  Decision by next working day! As opposed to the standard waiting time of up to 8 weeks. The Government charges extra £800 for this.  We are here to help if you wish to talk to an Immigration Lawyer or to start the process of preparing your visa application.  The best start is to book an online consultation on our website here .  As always, a consultation fee counts towards our full service!  1st 4Immigration is one of the most experienced UK immigration law companies, OISC - accredited at the highest Level 3. We have been in business for over 15

  We are following up on our earlier post, called Indefinite Leave is not “indefinite” . Neither is ILR issued under the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS), more known as a settled status. It can be lost if you leave the UK for more than 5 years in a row. At least it is more than 2 years, which is the case for non-EUSS ILR. If you have a pre-settled status under EUSS, you won’t lose it if you leave and come back to the UK within 5 years. So, both settled and pre-settled statuses remain valid, as long as you don’t leave the UK for more than 5 years in a row. If you have a pre-settled status and hoping to get a settled status after 5 years, then you can only leave the UK for maximum 6 months per each year. If you leave for longer, you won’t lose the pre-settled status (as above), but you will lose the continuity for settlement. So, in this scenario, you’d need to come back to the UK and start “your” 5 years again. If your pre-settled status expires before that, you can apply to extend it. To ta