UK Immigration Categories We Handle

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Comprehensive List of Matter Categories We Handle:

Navigating the UK Immigration System can be complex, with a wide range of immigration categories and eligibility legal requirements. At Noble Rose Immigration Service, we provide expert UK immigration legal services across all major UK immigration routes whether you are coming to the UK to work, study, join family, invest, or visit.

As a regulated immigration law firm, we are here to help you understand your options and guide you through the legal procedure with clarity and confidence. Below is an overview of the visa and immigration categories we regularly handle. Whether your case is straightforward or involves more complex circumstances, our team is equipped to support you at every stage of your immigration journey.

  • Visitor: For individuals coming to the UK for short stays, such as tourism, business meetings, or visiting family and friends.

  • Student: For international students accepted onto a course at a UK educational institution allowing study and limited work rights during the study course.

  • Graduate: Allows international graduates of eligible UK educational institutions to stay and work (or look for work) in the UK for up to 2 years after completing their degree (3 years for PhD graduates).

  • Skilled Worker: For individuals with a job offer from a licensed UK employer in an eligible skilled occupation, enabling long-term work and a route to settlement.

  • Health and Care Worker: A sub-category of the Skilled Worker route for qualified health and social care professionals, offering reduced fees and fast-track processing.

  • Global Talent: For leaders or emerging talent in fields such as science, research, arts, and digital technology, allowing flexible work options without a sponsor.

  • Start-Up/Scale-Up: The start-up route is for entrepreneurs starting a new, innovative business in the UK for the first time. The scale-up route is for individuals with a job offer from a fast-growing UK business, offering more flexibility after initial sponsorship.

  • Innovator Founder: For experienced entrepreneurs with a scalable, innovative business idea endorsed by a UK-approved body. This category offers a pathway to permanent residence.

  • Temporary Worker: This is for short-term roles in specific sectors such as Creative Worker, Charity Worker, Religious Worker, Government Authorised Exchange, International Agreement, and Seasonal Worker.

  • Youth Mobility Scheme: For young people (usually aged 18 to 30 years) from certain countries to live and work in the UK for up to 2 years without sponsorship.

  • Intra-Company Transfer: For employers of multinational companies being transferred to a UK branch, either as senior staff or graduate trainees.

  • Global Business Mobility: This is a wide route for businesses moving staff to the UK as Senior/Specialist Worker, Graduate Trainee,, UK Expansion Worker, Secondment Worker, and Service Supplier.

  • Spouse/Partner: For the husband, wife, civil partner, or unmarried partner of a British citizen or settled person enabling them to live and work in the UK.

  • Fiancé(e)/Proposed Civil Partner: Allows entry to the UK to marry or enter into a civil partnership with a British citizen or settled person within 6 months.

  • Unmarried Partner: For long-term partners (not married or in a civil partnership) of British citizens or settled persons, provided they have lived together for at least 2 years.

  • UK Ancestry: For Commonwealth citizens with a UK-born grandparent, allowing them to live and work in the UK for up to 5 years.

  • Hong Kong British National (Overseas): For eligible BN(O) status holders and their families to live, work, and study in the UK with a route to settlement.

  • Domestic Worker (Private Household): For overseas domestic workers such as cleaners, cooks, or nannies accompanying their employer to the UK for a short-term stay (up to 6 months).

In addition to the above our specialism in the above UK immigration categories we handle, we also specialise in British Citizenship, Nationality, Registration, and Naturalisation. Our services also cover:

  • Naturalisation as a British Citizen

  • Registration of Children Born in the UK or Abroad

  • British Citizenship by Descent

  • Dual Nationality Considerations

  • Good Character and Residency Requirement Assessments

  • Complex or Discretionary Applications, including Refusals and Reconsiderations

Citizenship is a major milestone and often the final step in your UK immigration journey.

We are here to make the process as smooth and secure as possible.