PBS dependent short of 3months to ILR

Tripletrouble wrote:https://www.gov.uk/remain-in-uk-family/eligibility

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... -form-flrm

s0787671 wrote:Hi,

My partners pbs dependent extension visa expires in sep 2016 and she needs 3 months more to complete 5 year term in UK, for ILR. I am a british citizen thru tier 2 visa 5y route. So could some one inform what application should be used or is there any transitional visa which is a short visa to cover this time.

As now a days there are visa fees + NHS fees to pay, which is just too much for just 3 months visa.


Thank you

geriatrix wrote:CR001, January 2013.

OP,
Apply for leave to remain as PBS dependant by post, before her current leave expires.
If the application remains undecided on the day she becomes eligible for settlement then vary the LTR application to settlement application.

s0787671 wrote:Could you give me the link to the correct application. And finally do we have to pay for Nhs as well with this extension application.

vinny wrote:

Applications wrote:This means a valid variation will look like a new application.

s0787671 wrote:I have a query, do they charge NHS Fees for whole 2y extension, but my wife only will have 3 months before ILR. You have to pay for the duration or whole of the extension period.

Secondly my wife would complete 10y by 2019 sep, as she arrived in UK as a student in 2009, so But won't she qualify for ILR as PBS Dep based on 5 years residence earlier?

strangely, if we do a tier 2 extension next year for the sake of 3 months which makes her eligible for ILR, and 3 months apply for ILR, and a year later apply for citizenship, it concides with her completing 3 years anyways, so I just complete the tier 2 extension and then use the 10 years route for her citizenship. What do you mean '10 year route for citizenship'?? She still needs ILR. If you are BC already, she can apply for BC the day after she gets ILR, she DOES NOT have to wait 12 months on ILR.

Does the above make sense.

Thank you

s0787671 wrote:Thanks.

I am not sure how the NHS fees workout, if we have 3 months for ILR and to cover that period we get the tier 2 extension, wont the NHS fees system see that she has 3 months to complete her and term and not charge for the whole term, which ever they give her. No, it won't. It is a computer processes IHS. You have to pay the full fee otherwise she cannot apply. Dependent visa applications have nothing to do with ILR in this sense. Its kind of a lot of meny spent on it, and then within 3 months reapply for ILR and the day that goes thru again apply for BC the day after, I have BC.

I am finding a way to close this gap and reduce the cost.

So please do suggest if there is any such router. Both me and my daughter have BC and my wife is on Tier 2 extension at the moment.

CR001 wrote:Tier 2 General Dependent is an online application only. There is no paper form for this category anymore.