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An investigation by The Guardian has revealed that the Home Office is gleaning up to 800% profit from some Immigration visa transactions. The paper analysed fees for application figures and...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/money-for-nothing-home-office-makes-to-800-profit-some-visa-transactions/
Analysis by the Liberal Democrats has revealed more than a quarter of EU permanent residence Card (PRC) applications are being rejected by the Home Office. At OTS Solicitors, our dedicated...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/more-than-quarter-of-eu-pr-applications-rejected/
– By Teni Shahiean of OTS Solicitors As 2015 draws to a close, we have taken the liberty of evaluating employment law developments over the course of the year so...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/ots-academy/most-important-developments-in-employment-law-from-2015-to-2016/
In 2015, the UK Border Agency (UKBA) granted 35,124 American citizen’s entry clearance into the UK. These figures exclude exit and transit visas, which means that those individuals came to...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/moving-across-the-pond-americans-seeking-british-citizenship/
Following divorce, it is not unusual for one member of the divorced couple to move away. When children are involved, and the relocation will take children away from their other...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/moving-away-considering-international-relocation-post-divorce/
A visit visa is available to someone who wants to come to the UK for less than 6 months and for many with relatives and friends in the UK, it’s...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/my-family-visit-visa-has-been-refused-what-can-i-do/
Today’s announcement that the Leave campaign has prevailed has come as a shock to many people. Not only have the British public chosen to exit the EU, but the UK...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/nation-in-disbelief-what-happens-now/
Citizenship is one of those funny concepts, difficult for anyone who is not a top London Immigration solicitor to define, but we all know that citizenship is important. It helps...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/naturalisation-as-british-citizen/
naturalisation sounds as if it is a process to do with the environment but it is in actual fact the name for applying to become a British citizen. Once you...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/naturalisation-as-british-citizen-0/
By Najma Ali of OTS Solicitors British naturalisation is a process in which you can become a British citizen thus allowing you to work and live in the UK without...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/need-help-understanding-how-to-apply-for-british-citizenship/
Statistics released show net migration of EU nationals has fallen by 75,000 in the past year. The latest quarterly figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that total...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/net-migration-of-eu-nationals-falls-75000/
Figures released this week show that net migration increased to 333,000 in 2015, the second highest upsurge on record. The net figure is the number of people moving to the...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/net-migration-rise-to-333000-leave-campaigners-quick-to-blame-eu-membership/
The Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, chose London Tech Week to announce a new ‘start-up’ visa route that is expected to be open from Spring 2019. Immigration solicitors have welcomed the...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/new-start-visa-launched-during-london-tech-week/
Hot on the heels of new Home Office guidance on Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) applications where there are apparent financial or tax discrepancies, there is now a reported immigration...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/new-court-case-tax-discrepancies-and-immigration-applications/
– By Oshin Shahiean of OTS Solicitors If you are settled in the UK and wish to bring an elderly parent into the country so you can help take care...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/new-decision-brings-hopes-to-families-wishing-to-bring-adult-dependent-relatives-to-the-uk/
By Oshin Shahiean, managing partner at OTS Solicitors On the 31 December, the Home Office issued updated guidance on UK Visas and Immigration inviting migrant applicants to participate in DNA...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/new-guidance-issued-the-home-office-dna-evidence-to-establish-biological-relationships-in/
On the 16 January 2020, the Home Office published guidance on Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) applications by those in the UK on Tier 1 visas where there are tax...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/new-home-office-guidance-tax-discrepancies-and-ilr-applications/
The Home Office has finally announced a date for a raft of changes to the Immigration Rules, the first part of which will be implemented on 24th November 2016. The...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/new-immigration-law-changes-introduced-24th-november-2016/
EU nationals living in the UK will not have to send in their passport when applying online for a Registration Certificate or permanent residence Card using the EEA(QP) or EEA(PR)...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/new-passport-return-service-launched-for-eu-nationals/
It looks like Immigration solicitors will be busy again getting to grips with yet more proposed immigration law changes. This time the focus isn’t on skilled migrant workers and the...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/new-plan-for-immigration/
Applying for a Home Office sponsor licence may be on your “to do” list but with Brexit, the end of free movement and the introduction of the new points based...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/new-points-based-immigration-system-your-business-eligible-to-apply-for-sponsor-licence/
By Oshin Shahiean of OTS Solicitors In two weeks time, on 1st February 2016, all private landlords will have an obligation to check perspective tenants’ Immigration status before they allow...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/new-right-to-rent-checks-summing-the-rights-and-obligations-of-landlords-and-tenants/
A report by the British Institute of Directors has found that migrants are making an incredibly positive contribution to the UK economy. Far from taking jobs, workers from inside and...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/new-study-shows-migrants-are-creating-jobs-for-british-people-not-taking-them-away/
For employers hiring skilled workers from outside the EEA, hiring international talent is going to be more expensive from next month. From 6th April 2017, several changes which were introduced...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/new-tier-2-and-tier-5-visa-rules-to-come-into-effect-next-month/
Immigration solicitors know that many employers are exhausted with dealing with the impact of Covid-19 on their business, are weary of Brexit and wonder just how much more change their...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/new-uk-points-based-immigration-system-your-business-ready-for-the-end-of-free-movement/
top London immigration solicitors may speculate why the 5 November was chosen by Home Office officials to launch the new UKVI Immigration application process. Maybe it is not an auspicious...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/new-uk-visa-and-immigration-application-process-has-now-commenced/
By Oshin Shahiean of OTS Solicitors Earlier this week the Royal College of Nursing sounded out an alarming warning to the UK Government that the new Immigration rules due to...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/new-uk-visa-immigration-rules-affecting-nhs-nurses-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/
A New Zealand couple who missed a deadline for their Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) application are facing deportation from the UK. Louise and John Talbot have lived in Dorset...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/new-zealand-couple-ancestry-visa-denied-indefinite-leave-to-remain/
London employment law solicitors were reminded again last week just how complex the UK’s minimum wage provisions are. In a decision that care provider organisations have welcomed, the Court of...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/no-entitlement-to-minimum-wage-for-call-carers/
It is the news that top London divorce solicitors have been waiting for: the introduction of no fault or no blame divorce proceedings in England and Wales. The Lord Chancellor...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/no-fault-divorce-lawyers/
The ‘remove first, appeal later’ provisions of the Immigration Act 2016 (the Act) came into force on 1st December 2016. Under section 63 of the Act, the Home Office now...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/no-more-in-country-appeals-from-1st-december-2016/
Top Immigration lawyers in London weren’t the only cohort to eagerly anticipate the publication yesterday of the Migration Advisory Committee’s report on EEA Migration in the UK. As the organisation...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/no-preferential-treatment-for-eu-citizens-migration-advisory-committee-report-eea-migration/
In an extraordinary move, the British government has blocked a bid to add protections for EU citizens in amendments to the Brexit bill in the House of Commons on Wednesday...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/no-protection-for-eu-citizens-in-brexit-bill/
British Prime Minister, Theresa May is in India this week, paving the way for the country’s first post-Brexit trade deal during a three-day whirlwind visit. Mrs May was quoted today...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/no-relaxation-of-immigration-rules-for-indian-nationals-says-pm/
Employment law is always throwing up interesting points for UK employment lawyers to consider – and learn from, and a recent case relating to notice of termination of Employment is...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/notice-of-termination-of-employment-only-effective-once-received-employee/
Many people don’t like to talk about domestic violence. However, the reality is that domestic violence happens to both men and women on a daily basis throughout the UK and...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/obtaining-indefinite-leave-to-remain-after-domestic-violence/
The EU’s chief negotiator for Brexit has announced today that Britain will have less than 18 months to negotiate Brexit and will end up with a worse deal than it...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/obtaining-permanent-resident-card-important-following-new-eu-announcement/
To a migrant employee it must feel as if an employer company holding a Sponsor Licence has enormous power over them and their future in the UK. As a result,...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/obtaining-sponsor-licence/
In a new Home Office policy Human Rights Applications refused before 6 April 2015 may fall within the criteria for reconsideration leading to a possible right of appeal before the...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/old-human-rights-applications-and-new-human-rights-appeals/
Just over a year ago, our senior partner, Teni Shahiean, appeared on BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire Show to discuss what would happen to EU citizens living in the UK and British...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/one-year-after-senior-partner-teni-shahiean-appeared-the-victoria-derbyshire-show-what-has/
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