The wealthy offered fast-track UK visa option
January 21 2010 by Liam Clifford
New UK visa service aimed at fooballers will cost £15,000!
As part of the Home
Office's new UK visa fee increases, wealthy immigrants living in the UK on
highly skilled work visas are being offered the chance to pay £15,000 to extend
their UK visas without having to wait in line.
This ‘premium’ service is
being marketed to super-rich highly skilled migrants such as international
football players working in the UK and will allow them to avoid delays and other
inconveniences.
The service will include the offer for UK Border Agency
staff to visit the UK visa holders to sort their visa applications and to take
the biometric information. Previously, these applicants would have to have their
biometric information taken at collection centres or post offices.
The
scheme will be launched as a pilot to begin with, with 50 appointments being
bookable from April this year for the 12 months following. The UK Border Agency
admits that the actual price of providing the “mobile biometric and case
working” service is just £1,982.
The pilot is intended to help the UK
immigration department to work out whether the activity is working as a means of
raising revenue for the department.
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