Moving to the UK
Information about UK for this wanting to arrange removal to the UK
In Q3- 2010, UK saw nearly 300,000 more people in employment compared to the same quarter of 2009. Foreigners moving to the UK took 50% of these jobs, including the 33% taken by workers moving to the UK from the new EU members.
The data goes to prove that people considering moving to the UK for work as a viable option are increasing.
EEA nationals moving to the UK has no problems to face on the rules relating to movement and work. At the airports, they have a separate channel marked 'EEA / EU' and the officers will check the passport or national identity card to make sure that it is valid and that it belongs to the person who has arrived. Though after moving to the UK, they can stay for three months only, this is not a constraint because they only need to be a qualified person to continue to stay and any EEA national who is a job seeker, worker, self-employed, student can be a qualified person.
With the right to live in the UK, the person moving to the UK can stay for any length of time without getting a registration certificate, or registering with the police.
EEA nationals do not need a work permit to work but may need to register as a worker under the Worker Registration Scheme.
If the family members of an EEA national (including Swiss national) are also EEA nationals they have the same rights to live and work after moving to the UK.
In respect of the Non - EEA family members moving to the UK, the requirement is that they should get an EEA family permit. Non-EEA family members who have a valid residence card do not need to get an EEA family permit each time they enter the UK after travelling abroad.
A family member of an EEA national moving to the UK to join the EEA national in the UK can work without a work permit. Family members who are moving to the UK as mentioned are generally not required to register under the Worker Registration Scheme
Bulgarian and Romanian nationals moving to the UK looking for work UK will need permission to work before starting any job.
Nationals of Czech, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia moving to the UK to work need to register under the Worker Registration Scheme.
If a British citizen is living in another EEA country, his non-EEA family members, for moving to the UK in order to continue to be with him on his own return to the UK, need to apply for an EEA family permit. This however is simpler if it is a genuine case and can be satisfactorily proved.
Nationals of certain countries moving to the UK are required to register with the police if they are entering the UK for more than six months; this will be specified in the visa
Applications from people desirous moving to the UK and would like to have a long-term visit visa are being considered based on parameters which include business requirements or family needs and previous travel history.
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