Gary McIndoe

This Q&A looks at the ability of an EU national to apply for naturalisation, where they have a stamp in their passport confirming the condition attached to the grant of leave to land is cancelled.

This Q&A considers when the subject of an EEA decision may appeal against that decision to the First-tier Tribunal.

This Q&A considers whether an immigration officer needs a warrant to enter a client’s home address.

This Q&A considers whether IA 1971, s 3C operates to extend leave on claiming Asylum under the 1951 Convention, provided that the Asylum Claim was made when an individual had valid leave to remain as a student for the purposes of ten-year long residence route to settlement.

This Q&A considers whether an application can switch to leave to remain as a partner, after a family permit refusal under the Surinder Singh route, under the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016, SI 2016/1052.

This Q&A deals with the evidential requirements where a Tier 1 (Investor) applicant wishes to rely on cash funds not yet invested.

This Q&A considers the application for entry clearance for the post flight spouse of a refugee.

This Q&A considers citizenship for European Economic Area (EEA) national children born in the UK, children born in the UK with ten years residence, and EEA national children born outside the UK.

This Q&A considers how to apply the suitability provisions of Appendix FM in relation to spouse entry clearance options where the applicant was convicted of crimes as a minor.

This Q&A will consider what applications can be made where a British citizen lives in the UK and wants to bring a domestic worker from a non-EEA country to live in their house.

This Q&A deals with Global Talent immigration applications, and their document requirements.

This Q&A considers whether a sponsor company must apply for a new sponsor licence where a share sale results in the company having a new immediate owner, but that new owner company does not want the company added to their existing licence.

This Q&A considers whether Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) migrant was outside the UK for over 180 days in a 12-month period because of compulsory military service in their home country could count as an exceptional circumstances when the Home Office can grant the applicant indefinite leave to remain (ILR) when their continuous leave is broken.

This Q&A considers the requirements that must be met for an investor whose initial leave was granted before 6 November 2014.

This Q&A considers whether a Tier 2 (General) migrant can switch into a Tier 2 (General) dependant visa if their leave has been curtailed, and also whether a dependent child of a Tier 2 (General) migrant can switch from depending on one parent to the other.

This Q&A considers the extension of a Tier 2 (ICT) leave to remain if a new project has been acquired.

This Q&A considers what would happen to sponsored workers if a Tier 2 sponsor is selling their business to another company.

This Q&A looks the requirements of a Tier 4 student switching to the Tier 2 (General) category with the same employer.

This Q&A considers whether, should an individual apply for a visa (eg a Skilled Worker visa) outside the UK, but travels into the UK as a visitor while the application is pending, will this have an impact on their pending visa application?

This Q&A considers whether existing Student permission will be impacted if someone with permission as a Student makes an application to switch to the Skilled route but then withdraws the application before it is decided.