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If you are in the UK on a skilled worker visa you may be wondering if you can change your employment. After all, with a recruitment crisis in many sectors...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/can-i-change-job-on-a-skilled-worker-visa/
Inflation is in the news. Read any newspaper, or turn on the TV, and you can’t get away from news on the cost of living crisis, inflation, and talk of...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/inflation-and-divorce-spousal-maintenance-payments/
With the global pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and threats of recession, Brexit has slipped down the list of news items in most news programmes and newspapers. For EU nationals...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/converting-pre-settled-status-to-settled-status/
Legal Internship Salary: Unpaid Location: City of London Category/Industry: Legal/Immigration Hours: Flexible Job Description OTS Solicitors are offering a Legal Internship. The Internship is normally full-time lasting 1-3 months. Prospective Interns will have recently...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/about/careers/legal-internship/
If you have invested time and commitment into the UK by moving here to live and work under a sponsored visa route it can be uncomfortable when you realise that...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/skilled-worker-visas-what-happens-if-my-uk-employer-loses-their-sponsor-licence/
As London family law solicitors, we get asked a lot of questions about alcohol and its relevance to divorce, child custody and contact, and financial settlement proceedings. In this blog...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/the-role-of-alcohol-in-divorce-child-custody-orders-and-financial-settlements/
Whether you are going to the family court for a hearing about your children and a child arrangement order, or for a financial settlement after your divorce, you need to...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/getting-ready-for-a-family-court-hearing/
Are you a ‘creative’ looking to move to live and work in the UK? Are you a UK business wanting to hire a creative? In this guide our immigration solicitors...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/a-guide-to-creative-work-visas/
Immigration solicitors know that key personnel tasked with the management of a sponsor licence for a UK business take their responsibilities seriously. That isn’t just because their job depends on...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/sick-leave-and-skilled-workers-a-guide-for-uk-businesses-with-sponsorship-licences/
Your immigration solicitors may know what they are talking about when they mention 3C leave but do you? Even the best immigration lawyers can drop into legalese and start talking...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/what-is-3c-leave/
According to a recent House of Lords committee report, the Home Office life in the UK test is a ‘random selection of obscure facts’. That’s hardly a ringing endorsement but...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/what-is-the-life-in-the-uk-test-or-british-citizenship-test/
Whilst there are pessimists writing about the threat of UK recession and inflationary pressures, others see Brexit as offering exciting opportunities to set up a branch or subsidiary of their...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/an-immigration-lawyers-guide-to-setting-up-a-branch-of-an-overseas-business-in-the-uk/
There is an assumption that everyone speaks English as it is the ‘international language’ but that isn’t always the case. It is also assumed that all UK employers need their...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/sponsoring-skilled-workers-and-the-english-language-requirement/
Divorce and immigration lawyers can find it hard to explain the legal concept of habitual residence to some parents who struggle to understand why an English court has the power...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/what-is-habitual-residence-and-why-it-is-best-to-check-it-out/
Are you a tenant whose landlord or agent is threatening to change the locks or entering your home without permission and without the required notice? Your landlord may be behaving...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/services/landlord-and-tenant/harassment-for-tenants/
Are you a landlord in need of assistance with serving the correct notice to a tenant or beginning possession proceedings? Or are you a landlord looking to reclaim outstanding rent?...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/services/landlord-and-tenant/tenant-eviction/
Housing disrepair claims are a common issue and they can be challenging to resolve. Whether you are a tenant or a landlord who needs help navigating this type of dispute,...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/services/landlord-and-tenant/housing-disrepair-claims/
If you employ Tier 2 (General) visa holders, or you are an employee in the UK on a Tier 2 (General) visa, you may question what happens at the expiry...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/can-you-extend-a-tier-2-general-visa/
Immigration lawyers say the Home Office test for a UK spouse visa or partner visa isn’t ‘are you in love?’ However, to meet the eligibility criteria to secure a family...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/are-you-in-love-the-uk-spouse-visa-genuine-and-subsisting-relationship-test/
For immigration solicitors, recent Home Office research into sponsor licences and skilled worker visas makes interesting reading. In this blog, our Sponsorship Licence lawyers take a look at the latest...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/the-driver-behind-sponsor-licence-applications/
When you are in a relationship, talk of family law agreements can seem a bit formal and even a bit unromantic. In this article our family law solicitors explain why...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/should-i-ask-my-partner-to-sign-a-cohabitation-agreement/
When your business is making changes the last thing on your mind will be your sponsor licence to sponsor overseas workers. After all, business structures and immigration law do not...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/company-changes-and-your-sponsor-licence/
The new scale up visa is due to open to applications on the 22 August 2022. In this guide our immigration solicitors answer your questions on the sponsored scale up...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/a-guide-to-the-scale-up-visa/
The high potential individual visa opened to applications on the 30 May 2022. Our immigration solicitors are receiving enquiries about the new visa and being asked whether it is the...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/london-immigration-solicitors-guide-to-the-uk-high-potential-individual-visa/
Immigration solicitors talk a lot about applications for British citizenship and advise on how best to secure entry clearance to the UK on a work visa or family visa so...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/could-you-be-at-risk-of-losing-your-british-citizenship/
Financial control can affect your decision to separate, and the timing of it, as well as influence the decision to start divorce, financial settlement and children law proceedings. In this...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/separation-divorce-and-financial-control/
Our immigration solicitors take a look at the UK expansion worker visa – the replacement for the sole representative visa for overseas parent companies looking to set up a branch...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/the-uk-expansion-worker-visa-is-it-working/
If you need a sponsor licence to recruit overseas workers, the likelihood is that you need your sponsor licence fast. That way you can recruit staff quickly and get their...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/sponsor-licence-applications-and-using-the-home-office-sponsor-licence-priority-service/
There was once a widely held belief that marriage was for life and that couples should stay together ‘for their children’. We have moved away from that view but when...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/how-to-divorce-if-you-have-children/
UK business owners are no different from anyone else in their loathing of rules that seem unnecessary or that get in the way of focussing on the important stuff. For...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/sponsor-licence-compliance/
Once a business has obtained its sponsor licence to recruit and sponsor overseas workers, it is easy to let sponsor licence reporting and recording duties and compliance issues slide, especially...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/sponsor-licence-management-services/
It is wedding season and to immigration solicitors that means applications for marriage visas and civil partnership visas under the visitor visa route. In this article, our Spouse Visa Solicitors...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/marriage-and-civil-partnership-visit-visas/
By Maryem Ahmed, of OTS Solicitors As immigration lawyers, we understand all too well the frustrations of waiting for Home Office decisions on immigration and visa applications. The wait can...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/changes-to-the-home-office-immigration-priority-visa-services/
Getting divorced is difficult enough but especially so where you and your husband or wife are working together in a family business. Our family law solicitors take a look at...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/getting-divorced-where-there-is-a-family-business/
When you read about UK visa eligibility criteria there is often a throwaway line that says that in addition to meeting all the positive eligibility criteria for the specific work,...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/an-immigration-solicitors-guide-to-the-general-grounds-for-refusal/
The journey to being in a position to apply for British citizenship can be long and hard for some naturalisation applicants. For others, on UK work visas, the time can...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/your-options-if-your-british-citizenship-application-is-refused/
Are you planning a quick trip abroad to catch some extra sun or an extended trip to see family? If you are thinking about overseas travel with your children after...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/overseas-travel-with-your-children-after-a-separation-or-divorce/
In 2022 every UK business is keenly looking at their overheads to limit the impact of inflation on their company. However, businesses are also juggling balancing the need to employ...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/immigration-solicitors-guide-to-the-immigration-skills-charge-2022/
If you are separating from your husband, wife, or civil partner and you do not plan to start divorce proceedings then you may need a separation agreement. If you are...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/do-i-need-a-separation-agreement/
The scale-up visa is now open to new applications. It is getting interest from UK businesses as well as skilled overseas workers. That’s because it has advantages for both UK...
https://www.otssolicitors.co.uk/news/an-immigration-solicitors-guide-to-the-new-uk-scale-up-visa/
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