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How to relocate from South Africa to the UK – UK immigration visa routes for South Africans South African citizens who would like to immigrate and settle in the UK have a wide range of UK visa categories to choose from. The most popular UK immigration routes chosen by South Africans & leading to ILR and British Citizenship, are the UK Ancestry Visa, spouse/family visas and work visas. We discuss those UK immigration options…

Overseas Domestic Worker visa Overseas Domestic Worker visa route is for those who seek to come to the UK to work for up to a maximum of 6 months as a domestic worker with their current employer. Dependant family members are not permitted to join the main applicant Domestic Worker on this route. You may see from the above, that Domestic Worker visa is not suitable for domestic workers who…

Overseas Criminal Record Certificate Overseas Criminal Record Certificate (OCRC) are mandatory only for some UK visa categories. The OCRC requirement means that in addition to disclosing your criminal offences just like you would need to do for any other visa application, you must also provide the criminal record certificates as one of the supporting documents for your application. How and where to obtain the certificate. It is important to bear…

What is Leave Outside the Immigration Rules application Leave Outside the Rules (LOTR) on compelling compassionate grounds may be granted where the decisionmaker (Home Office) decides that the specific circumstances of the case include exceptional circumstances. For the leave to be granted, those circumstances must mean that a refusal would result in unjustifiably harsh consequences for the applicant or their family, but which do not render refusal a breach of…

Traffic offences and naturalisation application Applicants for British citizenship may have one, two, three, or more traffic offences or parking tickets and may wonder what impact those will have on their applications. Luckily, traffic offences, parking tickets and fare dodging only in some circumstances can lead to refusal of naturalisation application. Therefore, before submitting the naturalisation application, it is important to take sometime to understand the Home Office guidance relating…

General grounds for refusal – suitability (‘good character’) In addition to all the specific requirements for the chosen UK visa category, applicants have to meet additional conditions set out in ‘General Grounds for refusal’ which are called ‘Suitability Grounds’. In simple words those are linked to the applicant’s ‘Good Character’. Applicants who fall under any of the ‘General Grounds’ may get their immigration application refused (discretionary refusal), or, in certain…

Skilled Worker (former Tier 2 General) ILR A person applying for ILR as a Skilled Worker must apply online on the gov.uk website on the specified application form and must be physically present in the UK on the date of application. To qualify for Skilled Worker ILR applicant must meet requirements that we explain further below. Suitability (‘good character’) requirements for settlement as a Skilled Worker The applicant must not…