Explore the 2026 updates to the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage in the UK, their impact on workers, employers, and links to immigration salary rules.
Indefinite leave to remain reforms propose doubling the qualifying period and linking settlement to contribution, character, and integration.
From 25 Nov 2025, eligible international students can switch to the Innovator Founder visa in the UK, easing their path to entrepreneurship.
Discover how the UK is reshaping its global talent strategy with visa reforms, industrial growth plans, and new initiatives to attract top researchers and skilled professionals.
Discover how the UK’s new Part Suitability rules reshape immigration decisions, unifying conduct, compliance, and character assessments across all major visa routes.
Learn how the Statement of Changes HC 1333 impacts UK student visas, Graduate and HPI routes and strengthens child safeguarding in the latest immigration reforms.
UK plans to extend the indefinite leave to remain qualifying period and introduce contribution-based criteria. Stay informed on proposed ILR reforms.
Explore key updates in the Statement of Changes HC 1333, including English requirements, Graduate route duration, and streamlined UK immigration rules.
Explore the MAC Stage 1 report on Temporary Shortage List, detailing UK plans for targeted mid-skilled migration and workforce strategy reforms.
A case study on reinstating sponsor licence in the care sector in the UK, highlighting how City Legal secured reinstatement through strategic representations.
This sponsor licence case discusses a business owner wanting to sponsor a relative.
This business case is involved around self-sponsorship and how we helped our client from a creative background establish their business in the UK.
The organisation, operating within the care sector, encountered the suspension of its sponsor licence due to concerns raised by the UK Home Office.
A sponsor licence case solved by City Legal’s corporate immigration team.
A complex case of dependant visa successfully granted to the applicant.
A business case on how our team of expert solicitors assisted with the case of Sponsor Licence suspension.
In order to be eligible to naturalise as a British Citizen, the applicant must normally satisfy a range of criteria including immigration status, length of residence in the UK, future intentions, knowledge of the English language and life in the UK as well as good character.
