IMMIGRATION

The new Appendix EU has been introduced into a consolidated version of the Immigration Rules. As of today, students who enrolled to study at the following universities or who is on a payroll of the following NHS Trusts, are eligible to apply for limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain in the UK:

• Liverpool Hope University

• Liverpool John Moores University

• The University of Liverpool

or:

• Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

• Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

• Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

• East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

• Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

• Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

• Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust

• Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust

• The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust

• The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust

• Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

• Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

An application can be made by an EU citizen or/and a non-EU citizen who has been issued by the Secretary of State with a residence card or a permanent residence card under the EEA Regulations 2016 on the basis of an application made on or after 6 April 2015 as a family member or former family member of an EU national.

Should you require any assistance with an application to be made under Appendix EU of the Immigration Rules, please do not hesitate to contact our Immigration team.

Please note that the information on this page is for general purposes only and is not intended to replace legal advice.

On 23 August 2018 the Home Office released statistics for in-country visa applications, which were recorded on the Casework Immigration Database. In this article we would like to highlight some of the published data.

A total of 1,173 Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) applications were received in the Q2 2018, which is 29.34% lower than in Q3 2017. There were no statistics released on the number of entrepreneur applications which fell for refusal in Q2 2018, however, according to the data released by the Home Office for Q1 2018, out of 1,140 Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) applications, 16 were refused. For the same quarter, 99.6% of straightforward applications were decided by the Home Office within service standard processing time which is 8 weeks.

Interesting data was released on the sponsorship applications. In Q1 2018 the Home Office received in total 1,522 applications, which were decided within 8 weeks service standard processing time. None of the received in Q1 2018 sponsorship applications were refused.

In-country work in progress figures show that as at 2nd July 2018 the Home Office were dealing with 37,799 complex applications, 24,681 settlement cases, 28,937 European cases and with 26,589 British Citizenship applications. Despite the high number of applications, at Chan Neill, 100% European and British Citizenship applications have been surprisingly decided within 2 months from the submission date.

Further details on in-country statistics can be found on Gov.UK website.

Should you require any assistance or legal advice in relation to your UK Immigration matters, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Please note that the information on this page is for general purposes only and is not intended to replace legal advice.

On 20 July 2018 the Home Office published a new Statement of Changes, which introduces a new Appendix EU into a consolidated version of the Immigration Rules.

The new changes concern EU Citizens and non-EU Citizens who have been issued with a residence card or permanent residence card under the Immigration Regulations 2016 based on an application made on or after 6 April 2015. Appendix EU comes into force on 28 August 2018, but only for applicants from 15 hospitals and 3 Liverpool universities.

Under the new Rules, EU nationals and their family members will be required to hold valid status in the UK. Those applicants, who have completed continues qualifying period of 5 years in any of the categories which will be listed in paragraph EU10 of Appendix EU the Rules, would be granted an Indefinite Leave to Remain status.

Those applicants, who at the point of application have not resided in the UK for continues 5 years’ period, would be able to apply for limited leave to remain in the UK.

New pilot scheme would allow the Home Office to address any issues before the scheme fully goes live in March 2019.

Our immigration team has many years of experience assisting EU nationals and their family members with their UK Immigration matters. Should you require any assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us.

A brief background on Brexit can be found here.

Please note that the information on this page is for general purposes only and is not intended to replace legal advice.