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UKVI News and Updates- Guidance: Register of licensed sponsors: students
- Guidance: Register of licensed sponsors: workers
- Guidance: Single protection interview: caseworker guidance
- Guidance: Information booklet for asylum applications
- Prove your English language abilities with a secure English language test (SELT)
- Guidance: Pakistan: country policy and information notes
- Migration transparency data
- Form: Information for your immigration bail reporting appointment
- Guidance: Document checks and charges for carriers
- Guidance: Sponsor a seasonal worker
- Global Corporate Law
- Key Features of the Singapore Convention on Mediation
- What is the test for a ‘one man company’?
- LIBOR: The Final Nail in the Coffin?
- Banking and Misconduct: A Critique of the Cure of Culture
- Court of Appeal Opens the Door to LIBOR and Benchmark Misrepresentation Claims
- Habib Bank Expelled From New York
- Supreme Court: Equity’s Darling and Guidance on Enforceability of Trusts where the Institution is Unknown
- Conduct Costs on the Rise (2012-2016): No End in Sight
- Supreme Court Clarifies the Law on Security and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitration Awards
- FSMA and Third Party Rights: Victory for FCA in Supreme Court
- Immigration News
- Shabana Mahmood hints she could water down plans on leave to remain
- Shabana Mahmood says Labour party wants to create ‘fairness in our immigration system’ – UK politics live
- Three people dead, including a child, in attempt to cross Channel to UK
- UK to open new refugee resettlement routes for Afghan women and Palestinians
- Facing up to the threat that Reform poses to our democracy | Letters
- UK politics live: Pat McFadden tells Labour activists they should not defend benefits system ‘status quo’ because it ‘writes off’ claimants
- ‘We’ve done everything by the book’: EU citizens left in limbo after UK government strips post-Brexit residency status
- Angela Rayner stands by attack on care worker visa reforms ahead of Labour conference
- Ukrainians in UK fear homelessness over host scheme funding cuts
- Londoners get £3bn a year subsidy because structure of council tax biased against north, says thinktank – UK politics live
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Category Archives: Skilled Worker
The label on the tin is obviously important: AI hallucinations and false authorities in the Upper Tribunal
R (Munir) v SSHD (AI hallucinations; supervision; Hamid) [2026] UKUT 81 (IAC) (17 November 2025) In this case, the Upper Tribunal (Judges Lindsley, Keith and Blundell) made a series of observations about the use of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) and gave … Continue reading
Posted in AI, Cases, Evidence, Hamid, Judicial Review, Removals, Skilled Worker, Tribunals
Tagged AI, Authorities, Hamid, Legal Resources, SRA, Tribunals, Witnesses
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“Earned” settlement and citizenship: What lies ahead?
“Earned settlement” and “earned citizenship” were the mottos of this summer’s White Paper Restoring Control over the Immigration System (May 2025, CP 1326). Earned settlement is mentioned on pages 68 and 69 of the White Paper and earned citizenship is … Continue reading
Posted in British Citizenship, ILR, Immigration Rules, PBS, Permanent Residence, Settlement, Skilled Worker
Tagged ILR, Immigration Rules, Settlement, Skilled Workers
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Changes to the Skilled Worker route from 22 July 2025
Statement of changes to the Immigration Rules: HC 997, 1 July 2025 makes wide-ranging changes relating to the Skilled Worker and other work routes as set out in the Immigration White Paper, “Restoring control over the immigration system”, published on … Continue reading
Posted in Employment, Immigration Rules, Skilled Worker, UKSC
Tagged Immigration Rules, Skilled Workers
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HC 590: Changes to MIR, Skilled Worker and other rules
Statement of Changes in the Immigration Rules HC 590 introduces much higher new minimum income requirements (MIR) which were announced by the Home Office on 4 December 2023 in what the Home Secretary James Cleverly called his “five-point plan” to reduce … Continue reading
Posted in Appendix EU, Appendix FM, Article 8, ECHR, Immigration Rules, MIR, Settlement, Skilled Worker, Spouses
Tagged Article 8, Immigration Rules
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Three year delay in making decision on application is lawful
Zhou & Ors, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] EWCA Civ 81 (07 February 2024) The Court of Appeal has held that UT Judge Frances had not erred in refusing a family … Continue reading
The new graduate route and beyond
March’s Statement of changes to the Immigration Rules: HC 1248 is the first set of changes to the Immigration Rules for this year. It introduces the highly touted Graduate Route. HC 1248 makes changes to the Skilled Worker Route, the EU Settlement … Continue reading
