Changes to Immigration Rules: statement of policy
Non-substantive changes for sponsors and migrants coming to the UK under the following routes of the points-based system.
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皇冠体育appse include non-substantive changes for sponsors and migrants coming to the UK under the following routes of the points-based system:
- Tier 1聽- entrepreneurs and investors
- Tier 2聽- skilled workers, including changes for senior intra-company transfers
- Tier 4聽- students, including extending the interim limit
- Tier 5聽- temporary workers, including the requirements for the government-authorised exchange category and private servants in a diplomatic household
- sponsorship聽- revised sponsorship guidance will be published in December
In addition, there are changes to the rules affecting:
Criminality
- establishing a more robust and clear criminality framework to assess immigration applications against which immigration applications will be assessed
- recalculating the length of time, based on the length of sentence, before we will revoke a deportation order
- introduction of a re-entry ban, for some foreign national offenders who have been removed from the UK as part of a conditional caution and additional powers to end (curtail) a migrant鈥檚 visa or leave
- creation of a 鈥榬oute鈥� for ex-armed forces to remain in the UK.
Settlement
- amendments to clarify聽 the absences from the UK that are allowed during the聽 continuous residence period for Tier 1 (General), Tier 2 and pre-points-based system work routes (for example work permits, self-employment and business person).
Family and private life
- minor changes to the child and parent routes to make them as clear and comprehensive as possible
皇冠体育appre will also be some changes to the youth mobility scheme quotas and the Tier 4 loan letters in early 2013.
You can check these 聽on the UK Border Agency website.