Earlier this week, in a guest post on our blog, Dawn Robertson, an employment law specialist at Rooney Nimmo, wrote about what is involved from an employment law perspective in the sale of UK companies to companies based in other parts of the world.

Whether you are selling your business to a US company or buying a UK business, our guest blogger, Dawn Robertson, an employment law specialist with international corporate law firm, Rooney Nimmo, tells us what is involved from a people perspective.

Victims of domestic violence, who have been admitted to the UK as the spouse or partner of a British citizen can apply for leave to remain under the domestic violence concession. They must be able to show that the relationship has permanently broken down as a result of the DV.

As the UK’s departure from the EU approaches many European citizens in the UK are turning their attention to applications for British citizenship. Becoming a citizen is not necessary in order to secure your status in the UK – obtaining settled status is enough. However many decide that they would like to take the extra step of becoming a British citizen.

As of today, the Start-up and Innovator visa categories have opened to applicants.  The Home Office have today published a full list of authorised endorsing bodies that can issue endorsements for the Start-up visa and another for the Innovator list.

What is it? Another new visa route presented in the immigration white paper of December 2018, set to go live this Friday. The Innovator visa was initially proposed in the white paper as a route: “For experienced business people who want to set up a business in the UK that is innovative, scalable and viable.”

On 7 March 2019 the Home Office released its statement of changes setting out proposed changes to UK immigration rules which come into effect on the 29th March 2019.

What is it? A new visa route announced in June 2018, and presented in the immigration white paper published in December 2018. The Start-up is designed specifically for those with an innovative business idea and appropriate commercial experience. It is one amongst many new or reformed “specialist routes” recently proposed by the Government for who they deem “highly valuable migrants and workers”.

The Upper Tribunal recently issued a judgement addressing the rights of extended family members of EEA nationals in the UK. The case is Kunwar (EFM – calculating periods of residence) [2019] UKUT 63 (IAC).

In our most recent contribution to the Free Movement blog, John Vassiliou discusses why he took a client’s appeal to the media instead of the immigration tribunal for the first time in his career.