Ownership

It's not good enough.

I think, I think the manager and the fans, as I've written before now, both been badly let down by the ownership.

Ownership, even if they wanted out, they should have made sure when it got to the 1st of September, the end of 1st of September, that Everton were, were in good nick.

And [smacks lips] okay, say they were unlucky with what happened with Balogun, but you know, shouldn't have left that to the 11th hour to get your, your biggest signing of, of the summer coming in.

And again, the right-back, um, issue, you know, um, could've got the lad Doue who ended up going Leverkusen for just 25 million.

And of course, if you have a startup that is like, you know, just starting, uh, off the ground, like, you know, they don't have any investment, they have barely like anything but like, you know, $50,000 in their bank account, it will be a difficult project, right? So, um, you know, not, y- you know, the, the immigration law doesn't show the startups needs to do this, but they definitely have, um, some qualifications that might not qualify if you are a brand, brand-new company.

And so Raquel, how does the immigration analysis change when the foreign national is a founder or has an ownership interest in the company?

Oh, this is one of the most, um, nuanced areas of, uh, business immigration.

In general, we try to be very careful with these type of cases.

Owning, um, having an ownership interest does not automatically prevent the sponsorship for, for a foreign national.

Um, instead, we're willing to examine whether the requirements for the, um, particular visa remain satisfied.

So for example, uh, it can be recognized that, um, a beneficiary-owned company may still petition for their owners under certain circumstances.

So for example, if, um, a person has invested a big amount of money in this business, but, um, and it has a controlling, um, a controlling ownership interest, as long as there are other...