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UK immigration update: CTA ETA recognition, student sponsor agent duties, EUSS automation and cancellation, asylum right to work and accommodation scrutiny, refugee move-on, modern slavery JR (16 April 2026)

Published on: 16 April 2026

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  • Key developments
  • UK immigration control: how it works
  • Sponsored work
  • Business, investment, and non-sponsored work
  • Students
  • Long residence, discretion and human rights
  • EU law rights and EU Settlement Scheme
  • Challenging immigration decisions and enforcement
  • Daily and weekly news alerts
  • New and updated content

Key developments

Future developments—Immigration calendar and Immigration White Paper

Our Immigration calendar highlights key upcoming milestones for business immigration advisers. Separately, the Practice Note: Immigration White Paper 2025—summary, tracker and resources offers a regularly updated overview of measures linked to the May 2025 White Paper ‘Restoring control over the immigration system’, including the ‘Earned settlement’ plans. It distils the main proposed changes for business immigration practitioners, adds commentary on likely implications, and continually tracks implementation, with links to relevant resources.

UK immigration control: how it works

CTA guidance amended for mutual recognition of ETAs

The Home Office has revised Common Travel Area caseworker guidance to reflect that the Crown Dependencies—Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man—have each introduced separate, legally distinct electronic travel authorisation schemes...

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