Lesley Kemp
Solicitor
Lesley is a solicitor with over 20 years’ experience in immigration law. A former partner at Magrath, Reed Smith and Kingsley Napley, Lesley established the immigration department at Kingsley Napley from scratch, and at that time gained a reputation as a leader in the field with regular recommendations in Chambers and Legal 500 Legal Directories. She now specialises in global talent visas for the arts, complex nationality applications, EUSS and out of the box applications.
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PRACTICE NOTES
UK immigration: change of circumstances—reporting duties, sponsorship/endorsement changes, and cancellation or curtailment across work, study and family routes; process, notices, travel risks, and BIDs/eVisas
Changes in a person’s circumstances which occur after the grant of entry clearance or permission:
can result in cancellation or curtailment of a person’s stay in the UK where their leave to enter or remain is limited, and
will frequently need to be notified to the Home Office
Notifying the Home Office of a significant change of circumstances can, in itself, prompt cancellation or curtailment. This Practice Note addresses both matters.
The withdrawal of a person’s permission is described as:
cancellation, when this happens at the port of entry or while the person is outside the UK, or
curtailment, when the individual is already in the UK
From 1 December 2020, the Immigration Rules, Part Suitability (and before it, Part 9) no longer uses the term curtailment, referring instead to cancellation throughout. For the purposes of the Rules, cancellation is defined to cover cancellation, alteration of duration, or curtailment of entry clearance or permission, which may take effect straightaway or at a set future point, and whether the person is in the UK or abroad. Accordingly, both concepts are now generally gathered, in the Rules, under the single term cancellation...
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