Monthly Archives: February 2014

Restricted Certificate of Sponsorship

A Restricted Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) is used in the most part for ‘out of country’ applications which are subject to the Immigration Cap. Unrestricted CoS’s are used in the case of ‘In Country’ extension or switching applications which do not have any effect on the Immigration Cap. To apply for a restricted CoS a […]

Statoil Is Not On An Artic Roll

Extracting oil is never an easy job and neither is balancing the needs of national governments, shareholders and environmentalists. Statoil, the Norwegian oil company, with a majority holding of 67% by the Norwegian government is presently navigating these choppy waters. The Arctic seemed to offer unlimited riches but the small issue of finding the oil […]

The Single Market is Not a Swiss Cheese

“The single market is not a Swiss cheese. You cannot have a single market with holes in it.” said Viviane Reding, vice-president of the European Commission,  when speaking to the FT An historic vote in the Swiss cantons is sending ripples of surprise throughout the EU. Switzerland is not part of the EU but it has […]

The Brightest and The Best | The UK Needs You

Business leaders have repeatedly warned of a serious shortage of British graduates qualified to fill key engineering jobs, a position justified by a report authored by Prof. John Perkins and published by the Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) in November 2013. The dearth of skilled home grown graduates has led to migrants filling one fifth […]