WEB 3080 ILPA Student Sponsors Conference (In-person)
Event
Details
Date:
March 27
Time:
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Venue
Friends House
173-177 Euston Road London,
England
NW1 2BJUnited Kingdom
We invite you to attend ILPA’s first Student Sponsors Conference, hosted as a hybrid event. This all day conference will take place in person at Friends House in London and online via Zoom. The conference, created by education immigration law experts Tom Brett Young, Anna Blackden and Nichola Carter, will examine the Immigration Rules and Home Office Policy Guidance relating to the sponsorship of international students in the UK. The conference will be aimed principally at student sponsorship in independent schools, colleges and pathway providers. However, those working at or advising higher education providers holding a student sponsor licence (and who recruit from pathway providers) would also find the content useful. We will also be examining the Home Office’s recently announced changes to the Child Student visa route with significant new rules relating to child safeguarding, nominated guardians and permissible UK living arrangements.
Tom Brett Young and Anna Blackden will chair the conference with Jacqueline Amos, Head of Study Services at the UKVI attending as our Key Note Speaker – so an unmissable opportunity to hear more from the UKVI about the forthcoming Child Student route changes.
Joe Middleton, Kings Counsel and barrister from Doughty Street Chambers is also a guest speaker along with highly experienced immigration practitioners in the field of student sponsorship as further detailed in the agenda below.
09:30-10:00 Registration and Networking Breakfast
10:00-10:05 Chairs’ Welcome (Tom Brett Young, VWV Solicitors and Anna Blackden, Doyle Clayton Solicitors)
10:05-10:45 Applying for and Maintaining a Student Sponsor Licence (Julie Moktadir, Stone King Solicitors)
10:45 -11:30 Home Office Compliance Visits (and Student Sponsor Duties) (Nichola Carter, Carter Thomas Solicitors)
11:30- 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 -12:30 Child Student and Student Visa Applications (Esyllt Beagrie, Eversheds Sutherlands Solicitors)
12:30-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-14:15 Sponsoring U18’s and Safeguarding (Tom Brett Young and Kris Robbetts, VWV Solicitors)
14:15-15:15 Home Office Enforcement Action (Strengthening Sponsor Compliance and Challenging Licence Revocations) (Anna Blackden, Doyle Clayton Solicitors and Joe Middleton, KC, Doughty Street Chambers)
15:15-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30- 16:30 Key Note Speaker and Q&A- Jacqueline Amos, Head of Study Services, UK Visas and Immigration
16:30-17:00 Panel Discussion and Q&A – Anna Blackden and Tom Brett Young to chair discussion
