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UK immigration weekly highlights for practitioners: HC 1691, sponsor guidance overhaul, EUSS processing delays and judgments, Adults at Risk policy changes, right to work extension—12 March 2026

Published on: 12 March 2026

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In this issue:

  • Key developments
  • UK immigration control: how it works
  • Sponsored work
  • Business, investment, and non-sponsored work
  • EU law rights and EU Settlement Scheme
  • Challenging immigration decisions and enforcement
  • Preventing illegal working
  • Daily and weekly news alerts
  • New and updated content
  • Latest Q&A
  • Key developments
  • Future developments—Immigration calendar and Immigration White Paper

Our Immigration calendar highlights major upcoming developments relevant to business immigration advisers. Alongside this, the Practice Note: Immigration White Paper 2025—summary, tracker and resources delivers an up-to-date, panoramic overview of activity around the May 2025 White Paper ‘Restoring control over the immigration system’, featuring the ‘Earned settlement’ proposals. It distils the headline planned changes for business immigration practitioners, offers commentary on potential implications, and follows progress as implementation unfolds. It also connects readers to associated resources.

UK immigration control: how it works

New Statement of Changes reforms refugee leave and makes miscellaneous amendments

On 5 March 2026, the Government presented Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules HC 1691 to Parliament, accompanied by an Explanatory Memorandum (EM). The package encompasses substantial revisions to protection leave, a time-limited ‘visa brake’ affecting certain Student and Skilled Worker applications, and the introduction of a...

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