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Online CPD course 7 hours, British Citizenship - a Dream for Many!

  For our colleagues Immigration Advisers and Solicitors: Our online training course is accepted by The OISC and SRA, CPD ref number EJE/14IM. British Citizenship - a Dream for Many! 7 hours CPD credit. The course includes criminality changes from 13 December 2012 and rules for EEA nationals including Bulgarian / Romanian (EU2) whose applications can be submitted from 2013 onwards.  Download from our website, study in your own time on any computer, iPad or iPhone, complete the test and we will award your CPD hours and send you a certificate. Visit website now to download or to read a detailed table of contents, objectives and extracts:   http://www.1st4immigration.com/training/british-citizenship-a-dream-for-many-cpd.php   The course is offered by our company, 1 st 4Immigration Ltd, which is a practising immigration company, registered by The OISC at a highly respectable Level 2, based at the Royal Mint in Central London. We’ve had 100% success rate in 2012! 1 s

New Testimonial on Unmarried Partner visa to come to the UK when the British partner is returning after working abroad

“A massive thank you to you and the rest of the 1st4immigration team for helping me with my visa. I received my passport with the visa yesterday and I'm so excited. So thanks again, you have been fantastic! I would not hesitate to recommend your service to anyone looking for advice/help throughout the process. You have been incredibly thorough and helpful...not to mention answering the million and one emails I sent quickly.”    Mckenzie, American national, who applied as an Unmarried Partner of a British citizen. In this case the British partner had been working in Europe for a few years, then was offered a job in London, so we helped the American partner to secure an Entry Clearance. We used a Category A, employment with the same company for at least 6 months, plus a job offer in the UK. For an individual advice or to make an application please contact us:  info@1st4immigration.com  or visit  www.1st4immigration.com   If you are an Immigration Adviser or a Solicitor

Online CPD course 4.5 hours What's Next after Post-Study Work and Tier 4 Visas?

For our colleagues Immigration Advisers and Solicitors: Our online training course is accepted by The OISC and SRA, CPD ref number EJE/14IM. What’s Next after Post-Study Work and Tier 4 Visas? 4.5 hours CPD credit.   Download from our website, study in your own time on any computer, iPad or iPhone, complete the test and we will award your CPD hours and send you a certificate.   Visit website now:  http://www.1st4immigration.com/training/whats-next-after-post-study-work-and-tier-4-visas-cpd.php   The course is offered by our company, 1 st 4Immigration Ltd, which is a practising immigration company, registered by The OISC at a highly respectable Level 2, based at the Royal Mint in Central London.   We are also accredited by the UK Border Agency in Croydon and submit applications using Premium service for accredited representatives. We provide biometric appointments every week (ILR, Tier 1, Spouse/Partner etc) and we have permanent slots to submit S

If one spouse has been in the UK for 5 years and qualifies for British Citizenship, can the other spouse apply at the same time, like with an ILR?

This question seems to create confusion because there are different rules for including spouses in the ILR and Citizenship applications. With ILR applications some can include spouses, even if a spouse has only arrived in the UK ‘yesterday’ (Work Permit or Ancestral). Applicants under the Points-Based System can include a spouse in an ILR application if the spouse has spent 2 years in the UK, this is if a Dependant visa was issued before 9 July 2012. In this case the main PBS applicant can apply for Citizenship 1 year after an ILR while the spouse would need to spend his/her own 5 years in the UK. In this case the Citizenship timing will be different for a dependant spouse from the point of application for an ILR. However, PBS applicants can include a spouse in an ILR application if the spouse has spent the whole 5 years in the UK, if a Dependant visa was issued before on or after 9 July 2012. In this case husband and wife may have to apply up to 5 years apart for either an ILR

Online OISC LEVEL 1 Course. CPD 16 Hours. Including a mock Level 1 Assessment and real case studies from a practicing OISC-accredited immigration company.

The wait is over! This is a most requested training course and you can now download our OISC Level 1 training course to your computer and study in your own time - to prepare for your OISC accreditation and Level 1 Assessment. No need to travel to a classroom, no need to wait for the next date. You can start your immigration training right now! As we are a practicing OISC-accredited immigration company, we have designed this basic level course to be of practical help for those who are preparing for OISC accreditation at Level 1 (Initial Advice) and for compulsory Level 1 Assessment. Or perhaps to those who are planning to open a UK immigration consultancy based overseas. It would also be of interest for practicing advisers and immigration lawyers as well as for community group advisers, council or Citizens Advice Bureau workers, volunteers etc. This is not a boring coverage of the Immigration Rules! We tried to keep the language as simple and entertaining as possible. See the Co

Another successful case of Entry Clearance for a Spouse and children of a UK citizen

“Happy to report we got the visas! Sometimes just two words can have a lot of content behind them: THANK YOU. Fantastic job.  I will write back with some questions about the future a little later, after we drink some Champagne. :)” This came from Mr N who applied for Entry Clearance in Israel for his Spouse and 2 children. This case was very interesting because we were able to combine earnings of the Sponsor from self-employment in Israel with a job offer in the UK. Furthermore, self-employment earnings were from the Sponsor’s limited company in Israel, meaning we could use the salary earnings in the last 12 calendar months, rather than in the last ‘financial year’ as the case would have been for owners of the UK-registered companies. We did not need to wait for the company accounts or tax documents.    For an individual advice or to make an application please contact us:  info@1st4immigration.com  or visit  www.1st4immigration.com   If you are an Immigration Adviser or a So

Switching to a Dependant visa inside the UK is allowed from 1 October 2013!

A very welcome change in the Rules: it is now possible to switch while in the UK from any visa (other than a visitor)   to a PBS Dependant visa for spouses and partners. For example, to switch from a Tier 4 visa to a Tier 2 Dependant partner visa. Or from a Tier 2 visa to a Tier 1 Dependant partner visa. Or, a very common situation, from a Tier 2 main visa to a Tier 2 Dependant visa. Before 1 October 2013 it was not possible, a 1 st Dependant visa had always started from abroad, then the partners could follow the main applicant as dependants all the way to an ILR (but they had to apply from outside the UK for the 1 st Dependant visa). This is a welcome change, plus such applications can be processed on the same-day service at the UKBA, which we can help with. For an individual advice or to make an application please contact us:  info@1st4immigration.com  or visit  www.1st4immigration.com   If you are an Immigration Adviser or a Solicitor please visit our immigration