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Home Office tightens up rules on secondee visas.

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Employers planning to bring workers from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) into the UK as business visitors should be aware that new guidance from the UK Border Agency (UKBA) has reduced the scope of the secondee category.

Those unaware of the immigration directorate instructions (IDIs) published on November 27 may wrongly believe that the secondee category is a way for overseas firms to bring non-EEA labour into the UK for up to six months without having to fulfil the sponsorship requirements and labour-market tests under the UKBA's points-based system.

The IDIs stipulate that the UK firm must have a contract with an overseas client company to supply goods or services, and that the foreign company is not part of the UK group.

In this case, an individual from the client company may be seconded to the UK firm to gather information in order to deliver work agreed under the contract, but the actual work must be done abroad.

"Initially, the secondee route seemed an obvious way...

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