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Global Business Mobility Visa Promises a New Solution for Companies Moving Staff to the UK Author: Vanessa Ganguin, Esq.
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Vanessa Ganguin, Esq.
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K immigration practitioners are eagerly awaiting to see how the UK Government’s latest immigration reform to reflect the global nature of business pans out. The Global Business Mobility visa is set to commence in Spring 2022 and will provide more new solutions for companies moving staff to the UK – whether or not they have a presence there.
“Immigration routes that may once have worked for business, no longer do; they have not evolved in tandem with businesses,” a recent Government briefing admitted. It promised the new Global Business Mobility visa route would “enable an overseas business to temporarily send an employee to the UK for a specific corporate purpose that could not be done by a resident worker.” Global Business Mobility visas should prove helpful for firms establishing a UK footprint or transferring trainees, senior and specialist staff to the UK as well as secondments to UK firms on big contracts.
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What problems does the Global Business Mobility visa solve?
Examples of the kind of immigration solutions the Global Business Mobility visa is set to advance includes setting up a subsidiary in the UK and being able to send a whole specialist team of “expansion workers” - not just the sole representative currently allowed. There will now be a route for businesses with no UK presence to send workers to establish a branch or subsidiary which is much more handy than existing routes. An easy transition to sponsor these workers in more permanent roles once a UK branch is operational is promised too.