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Our immigration lawyers can also help if you want to track your UK visa status. We work closely with you throughout the entire process, communicating with you regularly and giving you regular updates. For a confidential discussion, contact our friendly client care team to discuss your case. A quick search online for the processing times for your particular visa will bring back very frustrating search results. VEVO can only provide information about people who have their details available in our systems. You may not have a searchable record if you migrated to Australia before 1990 and have not since travelled out of Australia.
Our expert immigration lawyers are ready to assist you with your case, no matter how complex your case is. This guide outlines everything you need to know about how to check the progress of your application. You can provide a copy of your Australian citizenship certificate or your Australian passport to prove your citizenship. If you are awaiting a decision on an application for a UK visa, tracking the progress of your application can be crucial to planning ahead, especially where you are time-pressured for a decision. You’ll need to get the employee or potential employee’s permission to make the check. You will not have a UKVI account if you went to a Visa Application Centre or Service Support Centre to prove your identity when applying for a visa.
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You only need to use this service if you cannot check the applicant’s right to work online using their share code or check the applicant’s original documents. You can no longer request a manual check on a biometric residence permit holder's right to work. Immigration status can be checked online using the Right to Work Checking Service, although any prospective worker will first need to access and view their Home Office right to work record and then provide you with a share code.
It could also be because an existing employee has an outstanding appeal, review or application with the Home Office. The easiest and quickest way to check someone’s immigration status and right to work is online using the Home Office’s ‘Right to Work Checking Service’. If you have applied overseas for a UK visa and attended an appointment at a visa application centre, you can go to the GOV.UK online tool to track your VFS application status.
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Contact DavidsonMorris’ business immigration solicitors for expert advice on compliance with the UK right to work regime. Where a check has been properly conducted, an employer should be able to establish a statutory excuse against any civil liability. Your dedicated immigration lawyer will work closely with you to understand your case and identify your goal. We work with you throughout each step of the process, from assessing your eligibility, to completing your application, to liaising with UKVI on your behalf.
Equally, employers were given a grace period up until this deadline date, where you could continue to check an EEA or Swiss applicant’s passport or national identity card to confirm their right to work. Since 1 July 2021, with the exception of Irish citizens, an EEA or Swiss worker must be able to show valid immigration status under either the EU Settlement Scheme or by way of a work visa in the same way as other foreign nationals. They can no longer rely on an EEA passport or national ID card to prove their right to work. In this guide, we look at how to check someone’s immigration status before you hire them, when further follow-up checks are required during the course of their employment and the issues of failing to carry out right to work document checks. Your statutory excuse against civil liability will continue from the expiry date of your employee’s permission for a further 28 days to enable you to obtain positive verification.
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We also share general guidance on the standard and premium visa processing times (although the guidance given is not taking into account any delays that may be currently caused as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic). U.S. consular officers have decision-making authority regarding nonimmigrant visa applications. While you are not eligible to reapply for a visa if the officer denies your application, you can apply for a waiver instead. It’s also a criminal offence for you to employ someone who is subject to immigration control if they’re disqualified from working by reason of their immigration status, and you know or reasonably believe that this is the case. This includes where you’re aware or suspect that a worker doesn’t have leave to enter or remain in the UK, any prior permission has expired, or they’re not permitted to do certain types of work.
Application Registration Cards must state that the work that you’re offering is permitted. If an applicant or existing employee cannot show their documents or online immigration status, you must ask the Home Office to check their right to work using the online ‘Employer Checking Service’. This could be where an applicant arrived in the UK before 1989 and doesn’t have any documents to prove their immigration status.
If you submit your visa application from outside the UK, you will be required to attend a visa application centre in the country where you are resident. For super priority service appointments attended on a Saturday or Sunday, the appointment will be deemed as attended on the next working day. Where there is a bank holiday the next working day will be classed as a Tuesday, but in most cases this will be a Monday. This means, for example, a Saturday appointment will usually be deemed as attended on the Monday after the weekend, and the decision on your visa application completed and dispatched by the end of the next working day. For those of you applying for a visa from outside the UK, it is estimated that 90% of non-settlement applications will be processed within 3 weeks, 98% within 6 weeks and 100% within 12 weeks of the application date, where 1 week is 5 working days.
For eligible EEA and Swiss nationals, this will typically include permission under the EU Settlement Scheme , whilst for non-EEA nationals, or for those without settled or pre-settled status under the EUSS, this will usually be by way of a work visa. Use VEVO to send proof of your visa conditions to others, for example, employers, landlords or the government of a country you would like to visit. When you first submitted your application for a UK visa, you will have been asked to provide your passport. Once your application has been successfully submitted, you should then have been given a case reference number. You will need to have this number to hand when you phone or email UKVI to check your UK visa status and the progress of your application.
The online service allows the migrant worker to provide their employer with a share code which is then used to view their right to work in the UK. The online service operates on the basis of the migrant worker first accessing their own Home Office right to work record, where they can then share this information with someone else, including their employer, using a code generated giving you permission to view their status. This could be due to backlogs in processing applications by UKVI, both generally and, more recently, because of the coronavirus pandemic. This could also be because your supporting documents need to be verified and/or you are required to attend an interview, or because of your personal circumstances, such as any adverse immigration history or criminal convictions. If you applied for a priority or super priority visa and it is not possible to meet the applicable timescale, your application will still be put at the front of the queue at every stage of the decision-making process.
If there is insufficient evidence in support of your application, or a question mark over whether you qualify for a particular visa or satisfy the general requirements to come to or remain in the UK, further investigations may be warranted. If, however, your application is more complex, the usual times may not necessarily apply and you may need to wait longer for a decision. If your application is delayed, you will be informed by letter as to what will happen next within the relevant timescales for your visa. For those applying for settlement from outside the UK, it is estimated that 98.5% of settlement applications will be dealt with within 12 weeks of the application date, and 100% within 24 weeks of the application date, where again 1 week is 5 working days. To check your status, you may contact UK Visas and Immigration ( the Home Office body in charge of processing visas in the UK). The process to track your UK visa status is different depending on whether you apply from inside or outside the UK.
VFS are the commercial partners used by UKVI to help deliver their overseas visa services. You will be given the option of contacting UKVI by either telephone or email, although email enquiries are more likely to be directed to the caseworker dealing with your application. As with in-country visa applications, you will not receive a decision on your application at your appointment to enrol your biometric information and provide your supporting documentation. When applying for a visa from outside the UK you will need to attend a visa application centre in the country from which you are applying to provide your biometric information, together with all necessary documents in support of your application. On a final cautionary note, additional sanctions may flow from failing to check an applicant’s immigration status, including a possible downgrade, suspension or revocation of your sponsor licence, impacting your permission to hire migrant workers. Based on the current official wait times, for those of you applying to remain in the UK on a temporary basis, including as spouses, workers, students, and Tier 1 general and entrepreneurs, the standard processing time is 8 weeks.
