The Home Office UK Visa and Immigration department has announced that the Tier 1 exceptional talent visa, which was previously only awarded to people in science, humanities, engineering, medicine, digital technology or the arts, is now open to fashion designers. As part of the government&...

The UK visa status of hundreds of foreign nationals living in Britain is at risk after important personal documents were lost by the UK Visas and Immigration department at the Home Office some months ago. A number of similar incidents has led to calls for the government agency to make imm...

Foreign authors invited to appear in the Edinburgh festival are being discouraged by a complicated UK visa process, which organisers have described as Kafkaesque. The complexity of getting permission to visit the country could damage its reputation, according to organisers, who suggest it...

Nine-year-old chess prodigy Shreyas Royal and his family have been granted a UK visa that will allow them to remain in the country ahead of his father’s work visa expiring in September. Home Secretary Sajid Javid stated that he made a “personal decision” to allow the UK ...

Net migration targets should be scrapped once Brexit officially takes place, according to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). Targets should be replaced with a new system that makes sure those entering Britain are able to make a positive contribution to the economy, the business ...

A gang has been jailed after police discovered they were producing fake UK immigration documents for people trying to move to the UK illegally. Seven men and three women from Cardiff, Newport and Merthyr Tydfil were jailed following a hearing at Cardiff Crown Court, where Nick Jupp of UK ...

A citizen ID registration scheme that would cover everyone in the UK has been proposed by a think tank, as part of a package to strengthen border controls after Brexit. According to Policy Exchange, a proposed scheme scheme to register EU citizens who wish to stay in Britain should be rol...

A citizen ID registration scheme that would cover everyone in the UK has been proposed by a think tank, as part of a package to strengthen border controls after Brexit. According to Policy Exchange, a proposed scheme scheme to register EU citizens who wish to stay in Britain should be rol...

Although demand for UK tier 2 work permits is still competitive, the salary threshold now appears to have lowered, according to a group of lawyers. Demand for UK tier 2 work permits has reduced slightly as a result of various roles within the NHS being excluded from the UK immigration lim...

The Home Office is granting UK visas to the foreign husbands of British women and teenage girls forced into abusive marriages, and thus failing to protect British citizens, according to charities. According to statistics, officials dealt with almost 90 cases of victims trying to block UK ...