Working In The United Kingdom

Entry to work in the United Kingdom now takes place under the Points Based System or PBS and Dele Adedeji Associates Ltd is on hand to show and support the application depending on the applicable category.

The Points Based System consists of:-

A 5 Tier Points Based System [PBS]:-

Underpinning the new immigration system is a five tier framework. This will help people understand how the system works and direct applicants to the category that is most appropriate for them. The tiers are:-

Tier 1: Highly skilled individuals to contribute to growth and productivity;

Tier 2: Skilled workers with a job offer to fill gaps in United Kingdom labour force;

Tier 3: Limited numbers of low skilled workers needed to fill temporary labour shortages;

Tier 4: Students;

Tier 5: Youth mobility and temporary workers: people allowed to work in the United Kingdom for a limited period of time to satisfy primarily non-economic objectives.

The five tiers have different conditions, entitlements and entry-clearance checks.

Tiers 3 and 5 are temporary routes and migrants in them will not be able to switch out of them once they are in the United Kingdom.

Those in tiers 1, 2 and 4 will be eligible to switch between these tiers subject to meeting the requirements of the Tier they want to switch to.

Tiers 1 and 2 will potentially lead to settlement if settlement requirements are met at the time of that application.

Dependants are allowed under tiers 1, 2, 4 and 5. However, dependants are not be allowed to work where accompanying a student (Tier 4) or a temporary worker (Tier 5) who has been given less than 12 months leave in the United Kingdom.

Tier 1

Tier 1 has four categories:

General: For highly skilled employment in the United Kingdom, or are self-employed or setting up a business;

Investor: For persons making a large investment in the United Kingdom;

Entrepreneur: For persons investing in the United Kingdom by setting up or taking over the running of a business;

Post-study: For persons studying now or who have studied in the past in the United Kingdom.

Tier 2

Tier 2 has four categories:

General: For a skilled worker with a job offer from a licensed sponsor coming to fill a gap in the workforce that cannot be filled by a settled worker;

Intra-company Transfer: For employees of multi-national companies who are being transferred by an overseas employer to a skilled job in a United Kingdom based branch of the organisation;

Minister of religion: For people coming to the United Kingdom as a religious worker within a religious organisation for more than two years;

Sportsperson: For elite sports people and coaches who are internationally established at the highest level, and will make a significant contribution to the development of their sport.

Tier 5

Tier 5 has six categories:

Temporary worker - creative and sporting: For people coming to the United Kingdom to work or perform as sports people, entertainers or creative artists for up to 12 months;

Temporary worker – Charity Worker: For people coming to the United Kingdom to do voluntary work for charity, which is not paid work.

Temporary worker – Religious Worker: for people coming to the United Kingdom to work temporarily as a religious worker for a maximum of two years.

Temporary worker - government authorised exchange: for people coming to the United Kingdom through approved schemes that aim to share knowledge, experience and best practice and experience the social and cultural life of the United Kingdom.

Temporary worker - international agreement: for people coming to the United Kingdom under contract to do work that is covered under international law, including the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), similar agreements between the United Kingdom and another country, employees of overseas governments and international organisations, and private servants in diplomatic households.

Youth mobility scheme: For young people from participating countries who would like to experience life in the United Kingdom. This has replaced the Working Holiday Scheme and the only participating countries are Australia, Canada, New Zealand [the big three White Commonwealth Countries supplying over 70% of working holiday makers under the former Working Holiday Scheme] and China.

There are no Black Commonwealth Countries included and some would say this is an effective and seemingly legitimate way of excluding the youth of all non-white Commonwealth Countries from youth mobility scheme.

Our Immigration Work

Dele Adedeji Associates Ltd is registered with the United Kingdom Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC) as a Level 3 or Specialist Immigration Service Provider.

We are supervised to undertake immigration work in the following categories:-