by Ryan Rennison | Dec 15, 2016 | News
As things begin to wind down and South Africans finally begin to relax with year end festivities, we thought we would share some of our office experiences. As you hopefully know by now, Move Up serves South Africans nationally and internationally from our Cape Town... 
by Ryan Rennison | Dec 12, 2016 | British Passports, News, UK Birth Rights
Effective 1 December 2016, South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs (DHA) issues a new type of birth certificate known as a “full” birth record. This adds to their Unabridged, Abridged and Vault copy of birth certificates issued. This new birth... by Ryan Rennison | Dec 7, 2016 | British Passports, Family Dependency
South Africans looking to relocate to the UK with their British partner are faced with one of the UK’s most technical and challenging visa applications. Commonly referred to as the “spousal visa”, the UK settlement visa has the one of the... by Ryan Rennison | Dec 5, 2016 | News
Move Up has taken 2 years to finally get this new infrastructure up and running. In 2014, we began to roll out a three phase business development plan. Move Up took on new office premises, trained and developed key immigration consultants (phase 1) and aligned our... by Ryan Rennison | Aug 26, 2016 | News, Opinion Piece
The events building up to the 23rd June EU referendum vote as well as the chain reactions thereafter have served as an interesting learning experience. Especially when it comes to making predictions based on speculation. I am the first to admit that my previous... by Ryan Rennison | Mar 30, 2016 | Opinion Piece
o help give context to my subjective opinions relating to UK immigration legislation and how it impacts fellow South African passport holders in 2016, it is best to take past developments into consideration. This helps understand the motivations that serve as a... by Ryan Rennison | Mar 30, 2016 | Opinion Piece
As of the Friday (18th March 2016), the British government and their department of UK Visas and Immigration have implemented an annual fee increase. The biggest concern I have is that they have implemented a 25% increase on visas that grant working and settlement... by Ryan Rennison | Mar 30, 2016 | Opinion Piece
Starting off, let me clarify that I have taken into consideration that I might have over analysed this situation and I would not be surprised to hear from readers that I have drawn conclusions based on past events that might not necessarily be true. I stand to be... by Ryan Rennison | Feb 13, 2015 | Family Dependency, News, Opinion Piece, UK Visitor and Transit Visas, UK Work Permit, Unique Visas Available, Visas
Given that we are already half way through February, this year seems to be getting off to a busy start. We are nearly ready to roll out phase 1 of our business improvement plan (running a bit behind schedule but excited nonetheless). Over the past few months, the UK... by Ryan Rennison | Dec 4, 2014 | Move Up, News
What an interesting year 2014 has been. As the year begins to come to an end, I just want to take this opportunity to thank our fellow South Africans for your support and making us your favourite immigration consultancy. Office Closures? A common question that comes...