All Articles: Shortage Occupation List
One in ten jobs eligible for work visa priority in proposed new Shortage Occupation List
An influential government advisory group has recommended a major expansion of the list of jobs that get priority for work visas. The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), a crack team of economists that advises the government on immigration, published i ...
30th May 2019Tier 2 chef tripped up by TripAdvisor review
The Ganges and Gurkha is the 60th most popular restaurant in Plymouth. It serves Nepalese and Indian food, and was shortlisted for the British Curry awards in 2013. In 2015, it had a Tier 2 sponsor licence, meaning that it could sponsor workers from o ...
16th March 2018Strasbourg dismisses compensation claim for not allowing asylum seeker to work
Daniel Negassi v the United Kingdom (application no. 64337/14) was an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights with a complaint that the Home Office’s failure to grant Mr Negassi permission to work, while waiting for a decision on his asylum cla ...
23rd November 2017Tier 2: chefs at restaurants with a take-away service not eligible
According to UK immigration rules, if a chef works at a restaurant which provides a take-away service, he is less skilled than one who plies his trade at a restaurant that does not. As a result, restaurants which provide a take-away service cannot off ...
21st November 2017