Since January 1, 2021, all EU citizens may need to apply for a UK visa depending on duration and purpose of their trip. Even if after checking you don't need to apply for a UK visa, you need to prepare necessary documents and take them with you. You may be asked these documents at the boarder in the UK. (read more...)

In case you stay in the UK during the Covid-19, and your visa expires within the period from January 24, 2020 to July 31, 2020, you can request an extension for your visa until July 31, 2020. This rule was introduced due to travel restrictions and self-isolation. (read more...)

Since the 6th July 2019 you can no longer apply for UK Tier 1 Graduate Entrepreneur visa. It was replaced by UK Start-up visa. The main similarity in obtaining both two visas is that the applicant must have a unique idea for starting a business in the UK. (read more...)

The new system of documents electronic upload of the UK Visa Application Centre TLS Contact, introduced at the beginning of the 2019 year, leaves much to be desired. (read more...)

The UK has suspended the issuance of Tier 1 "golden visas" scheme to wealthy foreign investors until 2019. The UK government made this decision on Friday, 7 December. (read more...)

On November 14, 2018, the UK Visa Application Center introduced a trial electronic document loading system. This option is valid for applicants who apply for a UK visa in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Yekaterinburg and Novosibirsk. (read more...)

Since October 17, 2018, it has become obligatory to go on Gov.UK website to fill in UK visa application forms. Now Visa4uk.fco.gov.uk website is used certain visa types only. (read more...)

Has Brexit an impact on tourists in the UK? Foreign tourists were less numerous late spring in the United Kingdom. Indeed, the number of foreign visitors, tourists and businessmen between April and June 2018 fell by 7.7%. This is the largest decline in almost a decade. (read more...)

The right of more than 700 wealthy Russians to live in the UK with a Tier1 UK investor visa is under review as the british government mulls new ways of curtailing the power and influence of the Kremlin following the Salisbury poisonings. (read more...)

With GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation ) in effect since May 25, the European Union strengthens and unifies the protection of personnal data for individuals in its member states. The British government has responded with the Data Protection Bill 2017, which includes a large number of exemptions from immigration control, in contrast to the openness of the GDPR. (read more...)

It happens very often when applicants submit documents for a touristic visa, hiding the actual purpose of the trip. Thus, people believe that telling the truth about why they are travelling to the UK can complicate the process to get their visa. (read more...)

In March 2018 Gov.uk published the detailed statistics on how many UK visas were issued in 2017. A total of 2,710,000 visas were issued, 339,000 visas were refused. (read more...)

TIER category (points based system) - is the British immigration opening for migrants to come to study and work in the UK. According to each TIER visa you need to obtain a certain amount of points. The points are awarded if you meet all the requirements. (read more...)