EU transition period updates

• Updated Visa Guidance

The Home Office has updated it’s guidance on visas to say that if you are a business that is sponsoring a person coming to the UK under the following routes

• Skilled Worker visa
• Health and Care Worker visa
• Intra-company Transfer visa
• T2 Worker visas
• T5 Temporary Worker visas

And they are waiting for their work visa application to be decided, you may allow them to start work before their visa application has been decided if:

• you’ve assigned them a CoS and either:
  • they are applying under the Health and Care visa
  • their CoS was assigned before 1 January 2021
• the employee submitted their application before their current visa expired
• the role they are employed in is the same as the one on their CoS

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-advice-for-tier-2-4-and-5-sponsors