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What employers need to know about changes to UK business immigration law in 2022
07/04/2022
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Vikki Wiberg is a senior counsel in Taylor Wessing’s employment, pensions, and mobility team
Vikki Wiberg is a senior counsel in Taylor Wessing’s employment, pensions, and mobility team

Another year sees yet more changes to the UK’s “new” points-based system that was only introduced in December 2020. Is this simply a Home Office rebranding exercise or are the changes more substantial?

Right to work

In a further shake-up of the UK’s right to work rules, from 6 April 2022 companies will need to carry out online right to work checks on new hires or employees who apply for a visa extension where those employees hold a biometric residence permit (BRP) card, biometric residence card, or frontier worker permit.