The Immigration (Leave to Remain)(Prescribed Forms and Procedures)(Amendment No.2) Regulations 2006

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Immigration (Leave to Remain)(Prescribed Forms and Procedures)(Amendment No.2) Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on 8th November 2006.

Amendment

2.  The Immigration (Leave to Remain)(Prescribed Forms and Procedures) Regulations 2006(1) shall be amended as follows.

3.  For regulation 4 substitute—

“4.   The form set out in Schedule 2 is prescribed for an application for limited leave to remain in the United Kingdom:

(a) for work permit employment,

(b) as a seasonal agricultural worker,

(c) for the purposes of employment under the Sectors-Based Scheme, or

(d) for Home Office approved training or work experience,

for the purposes of the immigration rules.”

4.  After regulation 4, insert—

“4A.   The form set out in Schedule 2A is prescribed for an application for limited leave to remain in the United Kingdom as a highly skilled migrant for the purposes of the immigration rules.”

5.  For the form set out in Schedule 2, there is substituted the form which is set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

6.  After Schedule 2, insert as Schedule 2A the form which is set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

Transitional provisions

7.  An application for limited leave to remain in the United Kingdom:

(a) for work permit employment,

(b) as a seasonal agricultural worker,

(c) for the purposes of employment under the Sectors-Based Scheme, or

(d) for Home Office approved training or work experience,

for the purposes of the immigration rules, which is made on the substituted form shall be deemed to have been made on the form set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations if made within 27 days of these Regulations coming into force.

8.  An application for limited leave to remain in the United Kingdom as a highly skilled migrant for the purposes of the immigration rules, which is made on the substituted form shall be deemed to have been made on the form set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations if made within 27 days of these Regulations coming into force.

Liam Byrne

Minister of State

Home Office

31st October 2006