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The Immigration Employment Document (Fees) (Amendment No.3) Regulations 2003

S.I. 2003/2626 · Made 8 October 2003

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IMMIGRATION

Made 8th October 2003

Laid before Parliament 10th October 2003

Coming into force 31st October 2003

In exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 122 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002f1, the Secretary of State hereby makes the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2002 c. 41.

Contents

  1. 1Regulation 1
  2. 2Regulation 2
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Immigration Employment Document (Fees) (Amendment No.3) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 31st October 2003.

2

(1)

The Immigration Employment Document (Fees) Regulations 2003f1 shall be amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 4, after “4C,” there shall be inserted “4D,”.

(3)

After regulation 4C, there shall be inserted:

“Fee in relation to an application made in respect of a highly skilled migrant

4D.

Subject to regulation 5(a), an application made in respect of a person seeking to enter, or remain, in the United Kingdom under the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme shall be accompanied by a fee of £150.”.

(4)

In regulation 5, paragraph (b) is hereby revoked.

Signature

Caroline Flint

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Home Office

8th October 2003

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Immigration Employment Document (Fees) Regulations 2003 in two ways. Firstly, by inserting a new regulation 4D in those Regulations, they provide that an application for an immigration employment document made in respect of a person seeking to enter, or remain, in the United Kingdom under the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme shall be accompanied by a fee of £150 (regulation 2(3)). This requirement does not apply to an application for an immigration employment document made in respect of a citizen or national of an excepted country. This is the first time that applications for immigration employment documents of this type have been required to be accompanied by a fee.

Secondly, to reflect this new fee, the Regulations delete an application made in respect of a person seeking to enter or remain in the United Kingdom under the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme from the exceptions from the requirement to pay a fee (regulation 2(4)).