Chapter 26 Annex 2 Sections 21-25
Chapter 26 Annex 2 Part 5
Wording for refusals: Sections 21-25
| 21.1 | Not recruited or taken on as an employee outside the UK | "...but I am not satisfied that you have been recruited and taken on as an employee outside the United Kingdom as a representative of the firm." |
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Paragraph 144(i) |
| 21.2 | Firm already represented in the UK | "...but I am not satisfied that the firm does not already have a branch office/subsidiary/ representative in the United Kingdom." |
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Paragraph 144(i) |
| 21.3 | HQ/principal place of business not outside UK | "...but I am not satisfied that the firm has it’s headquarters and principal place of business outside the United Kingdom." |
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Paragraph 144(i) |
| 21.4 | Authority | "...but I am not satisfied that you are a senior employee with full authority to take operational decisions on behalf of the overseas firm for the purpose of representing it in the United Kingdom, or establishing and operating a branch office or wholly owned subsidiary of the firm." |
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Paragraph 144(ii) |
| 21.5 | Intention to work only part- time | "...but I am not satisfied that you intend to be employed full-time as a representative of that overseas firm." |
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Paragraph 144(iii) |
| 21.6 | Majority shareholder | "...but I am not satisfied that you are not a majority shareholder of that overseas firm." |
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Paragraph 144(iv) |
| 21.7 | Other employment | "...but I am not satisfied that you do not intend to take employment other than as a representative of that overseas firm." |
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Paragraph 144(v) |
| 21.8 | Maintenance and accommodation | "...but I am not satisfied that you can accommodate yourself and any dependants adequately without recourse to public funds." |
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Paragraph 144(vi) |
22. Domestic workers in diplomatic or private households
| 22.1 | Over/under/wrong age | "...but (on evidence of date of birth available) I am not satisfied that you are aged over 18 years." |
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Non-Appealable | Paragraph 152(i) |
| 22.2 | Employer not diplomat or member of diplomats family/ household | "... but I am not satisfied that [he/she] is a: member of staff of a diplomatic/consular mission who enjoys diplomatic privileges and immunity within the meaning of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic and Consular Relations/ member of the family forming part of the household of such a person." |
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Paragraph 152(i) |
| 22.3 | Intention to work part-time | "... but I am not satisfied that you intend to work full-time as a private servant in a diplomatic household." |
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Paragraph 152(iii) |
| 22.4 | Domestic Worker, private households only - do not meet terms of H.O. Concession (see 18.10) | "... but you have applied for EC for employment with ……. for which a Work Permit is required, but you do not hold one.” (A separate letter must also be issued. See 18.10.) |
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Non-Appealable | Paragraph 152(i) |
23. Overseas government employee
| 23.1 | No satisfactory evidence of status | "...I am not satisfied that you are able to produce satisfactory evidence of your status as an overseas government employee." |
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Paragraph 163 |
| 23.2 | Intention to work part-time | "...I am not satisfied that you intend to work full-time for the [government/organisation] concerned." |
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Paragraph 163 |
| 23.3 | Other employment | "............. other than as an employee of [an overseas government/the United Nations Organisation/..(an international organisation)]." |
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Paragraph 163 |
| 23.4 | Not an international organisation which of which the UK is a member | "...but this is not an international organisation of the United Kingdom is a member." |
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Paragraph 163 |
| 23.5 | Maintenance and accommodation | "...but I am not satisfied that you can maintain and accommodate yourself (and dependants) adequately without recourse to public funds." |
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Paragraph 163 |
24. Ministers of religion/Missionaries/Members of religious orders
| 24.1 | Minister of religion - lacking relevant experience/training | "...but I am not satisfied that you have either been working for at least one year as a minister of religion/you have been ordained as a minister of religion as prescribed by a religious faith as the sole means of entering the mission, following at least one year’s full-time/two years part-time training for the ministry." |
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Paragraph 170(i)(a) |
| 24.2 | Missionary - lacking relevant experience/training | "But I am not satisfied that you have: been trained/worked as a missionary." |
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Paragraph 170(i)(b) |
| 24.3 | Missionary - not sent by overseas organisation | "...but I am not satisfied that your are being sent to the United Kingdom by an overseas organisation." |
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Paragraph 170(i)(c) |
| 24.4 | Member of religious order not going to live in community | "...but I am not satisfied that you are going to live in a community maintained by the religious order of which you are a member." |
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Paragraph 170(i)(c) |
| 24.5 | Member of religious order - to teach outside order | "...but you are intending to teach and in view of ............ I am not satisfied that you do not intend to do so save at an establishment maintained by your order." |
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Paragraph 170(i)(c) |
| 24.6 | Intention to work part-time | "...but I am not satisfied that you intend to work full-time in this employment." |
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Paragraph 170(ii) |
| 24.7 | Other employment | "...but I am not satisfied that you do not intend to take employment other that as a: minister of religion/missionary / member of a religious order." |
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Paragraph 170(iii) |
| 24.8 | Minister of religion - not to fulfil appropriate functions | "...but I am not satisfied that you will be a religious functionary whose main duties will comprise the leading of a congregation in performing the rites and rituals of the faith and preaching the essentials creed." |
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Paragraph 170(iii) |
| 24.9 | Missionary - not directly engaged in spreading religious doctrine | "...but I am not satisfied that: you will be directly engaged in spreading a religious doctrine/ your work will not of the essence be administrative or clerical." |
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Paragraph 170(iii) |
| 24.10 | Maintenance and accommodation | "...but I am not satisfied that you can maintain and accommodate yourself (and dependants) adequately without recourse to public funds." |
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Paragraph 170(iv) |
25. Airport based operational ground staff of overseas owned airlines
| 25.1 | Not transferred to UK to take up duty as a manager | "...but I am not satisfied that you have been transferred to the United Kingdom to take up duty at an airport as a station/security/technical manager." |
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Paragraph 178(i) |
| 25.2 | Not overseas owned airline | ...but I am not satisfied that they are an overseas owned airline." |
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Paragraph 178(i) |
| 25.3 | Intention to work part-time | "...but I am not satisfied that you intend to work full-time in this employment." |
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Paragraph 178(ii) |
| 25.4 | Other employment | "...but I am not satisfied that you do not intend to take other employment." |
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Paragraph 178(ii) |
| 25.5 | Maintenance and accommodation | "...but I am not satisfied that you can maintain and accommodate yourself (and dependants) adequately without recourse to public funds." |
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Paragraph 178(iv) |
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