Settlement as a Sole Representative Visa Holder – UK visa news

The Consultant of an Abroad Enterprise class was closed on 11 April 2022, however many people who’re already within the Sole Consultant route might be trying to prolong their depart or apply for indefinite depart to stay (ILR). On this put up, we offer an summary of the necessities when making use of for settlement on the Sole Representative of an Overseas Business route. Now we have additionally included transient info for dependants who could also be eligible to use similtaneously the principle applicant.

Companies that want to ship their senior managers and specialist staff to the UK to increase their abroad enterprise, might take into account the Global Business Mobility – UK Expansion Worker route. Additional particulars are defined in our earlier put up here. 

Overview of Sole Consultant of an Abroad Enterprise Route

With a view to be eligible for settlement on the Sole Consultant route, you will want to indicate that:

• You meet the validity necessities, which incorporates finishing the proper software kind and paying the appliance payment;
• You will need to not fall for refusal underneath the suitability necessities;
• You should be within the UK and have, or have final been granted, permission as a Consultant of an Abroad Enterprise;
• You’ve got spent a steady interval of 5 years within the UK earlier than the date of software with permission as a Sole Consultant of an Abroad Enterprise;
• You may present English language capability; 
• You meet Data of Life within the UK requirement;
• You might be nonetheless required to proceed your work;
• You meet the work and enterprise necessities;

In case your software is profitable, you’ll be granted settlement. Do test our web site for info on making use of for British citizenship by naturalisation if that is the following step you keep in mind. 

Steady residence in ILR functions

A person could also be eligible to use for ILR after 5 years lawfully within the UK.  You will need to have spent the final 5 years earlier than the date of software within the UK with permission as a Consultant of an Abroad Enterprise and meet the continual residence requirement. In accordance with House Workplace steerage, steady residence signifies that:

“The applicant should present all the following: 

• they’ve lived within the UK with related permission 
• their residence is lawful 
• they haven’t been absent for greater than the desired durations, except for permitted causes”

The House Workplace might test your immigration historical past to see whether or not you have got hung out within the UK with the related permission. The interval of steady residence signifies that your absences outdoors the UK should be not more than 180 days in any 12 month interval except an exception applies, equivalent to compelling and compassionate private circumstances. 

Contemplating the work and enterprise necessities for settlement as a Sole Consultant

Work requirement

The work requirement for the Sole Consultant in a settlement software means offering proof that the abroad enterprise has been energetic and buying and selling and its headquarters continues to stay outdoors the UK. As a consultant of the UK enterprise, you could have been employed by and dealing full time for the abroad enterprise you characterize or for the enterprise’s UK department or subsidiary all through the related interval. You additionally should not have undertaken work for different companies or engaged in enterprise of your individual.  

Enterprise requirement

When it comes to the enterprise, the House Workplace steerage states that:

“If the applicant has or final had permission as a Sole Consultant and is making use of for settlement, all through the qualifying interval they will need to have met the next necessities: 

• they need to not have had a majority stake in, or in any other case owned or managed a majority of the abroad enterprise they characterize, whether or not that possession or management was by way of a shareholding, partnership settlement, sole proprietorship or another association
• the applicant will need to have established after which supervised the registered department or wholly owned subsidiary of the abroad enterprise they characterize within the UK, the place that department or subsidiary was actively buying and selling in the identical kind of enterprise because the abroad enterprise”

To fulfill this requirement, particular paperwork are required by the House Workplace and you will need to search authorized recommendation to make sure that you present the suitable documentation.

English Language and Life within the UK take a look at

One of many necessities to be eligible to use for settlement as a Sole Consultant is that you’ll want to indicate that you simply meet the English language  and Knowledge of Life in the UK necessities, except an exemption applies. For instance, if you’re aged 65 or over, you do not want to display adequate information of the English language and Data of Life within the UK.

Dependants of Sole Consultant of Abroad Enterprise candidates

In our earlier put up, Applying for ILR as a Dependant on Business Routes, we set out the particular necessities for the dependants of people who’re within the UK on the enterprise routes. As talked about within the put up, dependants embody

• Spouses 
• Civil companions 
• Companions who will not be married or in a civil partnership however who’ve lived collectively in a relationship much like a wedding or civil partnership for a minimum of 2 years 
• Dependent youngsters underneath the age of 18 on the date of software 
• Dependent youngsters over 18 who had been final granted permission as a dependent youngster of their mum or dad(s)

Dependent companions should be over 18 years previous and the connection should be real and subsisting. Kids making use of as a dependent youngster of a Consultant of an Abroad Enterprise migrant need to be underneath 18 years of age on the date of software, except the final permission was as a dependent youngster and the applicant isn’t main an impartial life. 

For settlement functions, the dependent accomplice and dependent youngster should be making use of similtaneously the principle applicant except the principle applicant is already settled within the UK or has turn into a British citizen whereas holding permission on the identical route. They have to even be final granted depart to stay as a dependent accomplice or dependent youngster of the principle applicant except the dependent youngster was born within the UK and is making use of as a baby of the principle applicant. 

Each the dependent accomplice and dependent youngster might want to meet the English language and Data of life within the UK necessities except an exception applies. 

The place of the dependants is additional mentioned in our earlier put up, The Sole Representative Visa is Closed – But Not for Dependants!  

Contact Our Immigration Barristers

For professional recommendation and help with a settlement software as a Consultant of an Abroad Enterprise, contact our enterprise immigration barristers on 0203 617 9173 or full our enquiry kind under.