By Annie Ee – Senior Legal Associate
The Entrepreneur Visa class is now not open to new entrants. However, present Tier 1 Entrepreneur migrants can nonetheless lengthen their keep and settle within the UK. In this submit we’ll take a better take a look at the job creation requirement and the way the requirement will be met in Tier 1 Entrepreneur visa extension and Tier 1 Entrepreneur visa ILR purposes.
Understanding the Entrepreneur Job Creation Requirement
Tier 1 Entrepreneur Extension Applications
The requirement for job creation in an Entrepreneur extension utility is about out in Table 5 in Appendix A: Attributes to the Immigration Rules:
The applicant has:
(a) established a brand new enterprise or companies that has or have created the equal of no less than 2 new full time jobs for settled staff, or
(b) taken over or invested in an present enterprise or companies and their companies or funding have resulted in a web improve within the employment supplied by the enterprise or companies for settled staff by creating the equal of no less than 2 new full time jobs for settled staff.
The jobs will need to have existed for no less than 12 months throughout the applicant’s most…