The UK Home Office has brought forward plans for two new visa routes to be introduced for skilled businesspeople in a bid to attract more international talent, Caroline Noakes MP, Immigration Minister announced.

This will also reform the current Tier 1 investor route.

The two new routes, the Start-up visa route and Innovator visa route, will open on 29 March 2019, the date the UK is set to leave the European Union.

Philip Barth, head of immigration at national law firm Irwin Mitchell Private Wealth believes this is “a welcome move from the Home Office.”

However, “the devil will be in the detail...