Changes to student visa route will reduce net migration

New government restrictions to student visa routes will substantially cut net migration by restricting the ability for international students to bring family members on all but post-graduate research routes and banning people from using a student visa as a backdoor...

UK-accredited TB screening centre now opens in Honiara

Solomon Islanders who wish to travel to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will now be able to test for tuberculosis (TB) in Honiara in order to get a UK Visa. Visitors from Solomon Islands don’t need a visa to visit the UK for less than 6...

UK Nationals arriving from Sudan to have access to benefits

Emergency regulations, which come into force on Monday 15 May, will ensure UK nationals, Irish nationals and those with Home Office leave which provides recourse to public funds, who left Sudan as a result of the violence, will be exempt from the residency tests and...