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By Oshin Shahiean of OTS Solicitors On the face of it, the deal struck between Turkey and the European Union, in a desperate bid to stem the influx of migrants...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/going-cold-turkey-why-the-euturkish-migrant-deal-causing-controversy-in-the-eu-brexit-debate/
With all the turmoil and uncertainty over Brexit, you may question who would contemplate establishing a branch office or a wholly owned subsidiary company in the UK with just one...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/going-solo-sole-representative-of-overseas-business-visa/
You may be questioning what good character has got to do with British nationality. Immigration solicitors would say that it is a good question because if you are born British...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/good-character-and-british-nationality/
By Vishal Makol of OTS Solicitors As we highlighted in a recent blog our team of top London Immigration lawyers has been concerned for some time at the use of...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/good-character-refusals-applications-hold/
In a major victory for Immigration law advocates and spouse visa applicants, the British Government has amended the Immigration rules surrounding the minimum income threshold to make it easier for...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/government-amends-immigration-rules-to-allow-more-flexibility-to-minimum-income-requirement/
By Teni Shahiean, CEO at OTS Solicitors In late December 2018, the government published its ‘good work plan’. It did not receive a lot of publicity, primarily because all the...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/government-announces-its-good-work-plan/
Home Secretary, Amber Rudd has announced that the child refugee scheme (known as the Dubs scheme), in which the Government pledged to accept 3,000 unaccompanied child refugees is to close...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/government-closes-its-child-refugee-scheme/
OTS Solicitors is highly recommended in the Legal 500 for Immigration and Human Rights law. We have also been selected by the 2017 Global Excellence Awards as the Most Trusted...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/government-doubles-the-number-of-tier-1-exceptional-talent-visas/
It hasn’t been widely reported in the press but the government has extended the ban on landlords evicting most residential tenants until the 11 January 2021. The previous ban on...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/government-extends-ban-most-residential-evictions-until-the-11-january-2021/
By Oshin Shahiean, managing partner at OTS Solicitors Amidst all the deal or no-deal Brexit news, you may have missed the Home Office saying that they plan to introduce appeal...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/government-set-to-introduce-right-of-appeal-right-for-extended-family-members/
With Brexit negotiations finally underway, the UK Government appears to finally be making plans to confirm the legal status of the 3 million EU nationals living in the UK. According...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/government-to-announce-stocktake-of-eu-nationals-living-in-the-uk/
Deep breath – this does not happen often. We are delighted to announce that the Government has reversed its 500% increase in fees which came into effect in October 2016....
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/government-u-turn-500-increase-in-fees/
There has never been a better time in history for young people to say adieu to corporate life and embark on starting their own business venture. Many international students who...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/graduate-entrepreneur-visa-calling-the-young-bright-and-talented-to-britain/
The government keeps saying that whatever happens with Brexit, the UK is open to business and innovation. If you are a graduate with a business idea, then one means of...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/graduate-immigration-the-graduate-entrepreneur-visa-advice/
The Home Office has announced that migrants affected by the Grenfell Tower fire will be granted 12 months’ Immigration amnesty. On 14th June 2017, the 24 story Grenfell Tower block...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/grenfell-towers-fire-survivors-granted-immigration-amnesty/
The government is slowly releasing information on its planned new UK’s points based Immigration system, the latest in the series of Home Office announcements being dated July 2020. With the...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/guide-for-hr-staff-and-recruiters-sponsoring-workers-and-the-new-points-based-immigration/
In January 2018, over 70,000 bank accounts will be checked and could be closed or frozen, in the British government’s latest attempt to crack down on illegal migrants. The new...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/guide-for-uk-overstayers-how-to-become-legal/
From the 1 December 2020 UK employers can start to recruit non-EEA workers on the new skilled worker visa to start their Employment as soon as their visa applications are...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/guide-how-to-apply-for-home-office-sponsor-licence-to-sponsor-skilled-workers/
Going from being on a Tier 2 visa to ILR is a big step and, for many, it spells freedom from bureaucracy of Immigration control. It is not just you...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/guide-moving-from-work-visa-to-indefinite-leave-to-remain/
Whilst all business owners are heartedly sick of hearing and reading about Brexit the reality is that with the end of free movement many small and medium UK businesses are...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/guide-to-business-immigration-for-small-and-medium-businesses/
In August 2017, heterosexual couple, Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan entered the Supreme Court to fight for the right to enter a civil partnership. At present, only same-sex couples can...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/guide-to-civil-partnerships/
Many skilled workers don’t know where to start when they first think about coming to work in the UK from overseas. For EEA nationals the thought of being subject to...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/guide-to-coming-to-work-in-the-uk-from-overseas-the-skilled-worker-visa/
As specialist Immigration solicitors we are often asked what is meant by the term ‘long residence’. To some Immigration clients, with international families and frequent job changes, if they stay...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/guide-to-long-residence/
A Prohibited Steps Order is issued by the court in family cases to prevents either parent from carrying out certain acts or making decisions in relation to their children without...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/guide-to-prohibited-steps-orders/
Immigration solicitors are warning UK business owners applying for their first sponsor licence, and companies who hold sponsor licences to employ skilled migrant workers on Tier 2 or Tier 5...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/guide-to-sponsorship-licence-inspection-visits/
Back in 2018, the government said that they would be introducing the Start-up visa. The March 2019 statement of changes to the Immigration Rules and guidance from the Home Office...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/guide-to-start-visas-from-our-immigration-lawyers/
The third national lockdown in the UK and devastating COVID-19 statistics has really emphasised the need for migrants to come to the UK to fill health care vacancies. In this...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/guide-to-the-health-and-care-worker-visa/
In December 2019, the Home Office updated the rules on the Life in the UK test. Those reforms were not widely published or the subject of much media coverage, having...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/guide-to-the-ilr-life-in-the-uk-test/
Just as UK companies are looking to set up business in the EU in the post Brexit world, overseas companies are looking afresh at the UK as a suitable business...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/guide-to-the-sole-representative-visa-your-questions-answered/
A spouse visa interview is probably the most important interview that you and your sponsor spouse will ever participate in. If you thought that a job interview was stressful then...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/guide-to-the-spouse-visa-interview/
When you are considering an unmarried partner visa in the UK and are in a long distance relationship, whether it is UK to the Philippines or UK to India, the...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/guide-to-the-uk-partner-visa/
When it comes to knowledge of the types of visa applications available, top London immigration solicitors find their UK and international clients do not often know about the option of...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/guide-to-youth-mobility-visas/
With the end of free movement for EU citizens more UK employers are having to make their first Sponsorship Licence application to the Home Office to enable them to recruit...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/guide-what-to-do-if-your-sponsor-licence-application-refused-the-home-office/
OTS Solicitors are delighted and very proud to announce that Hans Sok Appadu has been promoted to a junior partner after five years of working at OTS Solicitors in London....
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/hans-sok-appadu-promoted-to-partner-at-ots-solicitors/
From all the Solicitors and teams at OTS Solicitors, we welcome everyone into the Chinese New Year, the Year of the Dog! In March 2017, the firm’s founding partners, Mr...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/happy-chinese-new-year-to-all/
If you are in immediate danger, please call 999. You can also call the National Domestic Violence 24-hour helpline on freephone 0808 2000 247. OTS Solicitors is highly recommended in...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/help-at-hand-domestic-violence-and-immigration/
By Teni Shahiean of OTS Solicitors With a proposal tabled in the House of Lords last week to withdraw the Tier One Investor Visa in January 2017, high-net-worth investors will...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/help-for-investors-wanting-to-obtain-tier-one-entrepreneur-visa/
Are you one of the thousands of students deported from the UK illegally by the Home Office in 2014? If so, you may be entitled, not only to re-entry into...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/help-for-students-deported-illegally-from-the-uk/
If your business has had its sponsor licence revoked or knows that it is at risk of getting its Sponsor Licence revoked it is time to take specialist legal advice...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/help-with-sponsor-licence-revocation/
The Government has won a victory in the latest Brexit challenge today. The high court has blocked a legal challenge to the government’s strategy for leaving the single market and...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/high-court-blocks-fresh-legal-challenge/
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