Mexican citizen seeking UK citizenship... HELP!

I illegally entered the USA when I was 4 (I'm 21). My father is a legal permanent resident, but my mother and I are illegal citizens (we're both Mexican citizens). I've graduated high school, and I'm attending a college working towards a degree. What can I do to become a UK citizen after receiving my degree? I think I must apply for a work visa first, but I'm still very confused with the process. Should I look for a job in the UK before getting there? Should I go back to Mexico and apply from there? I'm very confused... any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

PS. Please don't be rude about my nationality/situation. I never asked to be brought into the USA. I'm grateful for the education and opportunities I've been given, but I don't 'exist' to the US government, and I've never lived in Mexico (apart from my first 4 years). I don't feel a part of either country, I'm looking to make the United Kingdom my home.

It may probably be better if can you regularise your stay in the USA.

You probably have to apply for a work related entry clearance from Mexico. Subsequently, you may apply for settlement. It may be at least six years, possibly longer, before you are eligible to apply for naturalisation.

Keef21Moon wrote: I don't feel a part of either country, I'm looking to make the United Kingdom my home.

Why? you appear to have even less connection with the UK than with Mexico or USA.

vinny wrote:It may probably be better if can you regularise your stay in the USA.

You probably have to apply for a work related entry clearance from Mexico. Subsequently, you may apply for settlement. It may be at least six years, possibly longer, before you are eligible to apply for naturalisation.

So what you're saying is that upon receiving my degree, I go to Mexico and settle there for a bit? Then, apply for a work related entry clearance from Mexico?

Let's say I receive a Computer Science degree in the US... can I move to Mexico, and use my degree to seek work in the UK, but first apply for entry clearance on the basis of work? Does that make sense?

Mr Rusty wrote:

Keef21Moon wrote: I don't feel a part of either country, I'm looking to make the United Kingdom my home.

Why? you appear to have even less connection with the UK than with Mexico or USA.

Why?? I didn't know I needed a legitimate reason. I've always wanted to live in the UK. The best music and musicians came from the UK. I read about Wembley, and Sheperd's Bush, and Piccadilly Circus, and the Isle of Wight... I read about all these places in their biographies. That's my reason for wanting to live there, and it's as good as any other if you ask me.

You would have to apply from somewhere were you are living legally.

Read the links posted above. It isn't simple. Either you come as a highly skilled worker (Tier 1) or sponsored worker (Tier 2).

If you want apply for Tier 1 you will need to show a high previous salary.

For Tier 2 you need to find a position that no one in the UK and EU has applied for or where none of the candidates meet the basic requirements. The UK is not short of people who can work in the IT industry, and much is outsourced to India.

By the time you come to apply the schemes could be closed or the criteria made more stringent.

The other option is a student visa, but you would need lots of cash up front.

That is about it.

Piccadilly Circus is a grotty statue in a polluted busy junction full of tourists and pickpockets who prey on tourists who have just very usefully shown the world where their camera is after taking pictures.

Shepherd's Bush is bedsit land.

I've never been to the Isle of Wight but I suppose you could pass a few pleasant days there.

The problem is if it all goes wrong and you lose your job or don't get a job, where will you go if you haven't regularised your stay in the US?

You may hate it in the UK.

PaperPusher wrote:Piccadilly Circus is a grotty statue in a polluted busy junction full of tourists and pickpockets who prey on tourists who have just very usefully shown the world where their camera is after taking pictures.

Shepherd's Bush is bedsit land.

I've never been to the Isle of Wight but I suppose you could pass a few pleasant days there.

The problem is if it all goes wrong and you lose your job or don't get a job, where will you go if you haven't regularised your stay in the US?

You may hate it in the UK.

Piccadilly Circus sounds perfect! If it all goes wrong, then I guess I'll walk somewhere with my bindlestick.

You mean a staff.

You could walk to Newham if your cheery optimism enables you to survive the walk down Whitechapel Road without getting a smack.

If you leave the US without regularising your stay, you may never be able to go back.

PaperPusher wrote:You mean a staff.

You could walk to Newham if your cheery optimism enables you to survive the walk down Whitechapel Road without getting a smack.

If you leave the US without regularising your stay, you may never be able to go back.

This is probably the wrong place to ask, but what is the process for regularizing my stay in the States? I've looked everywhere, but I always hit a dead end. Sometimes, I just want to give up, go to Mexico, and live a mediocre life.

I know if you had been in the same situation in the UK, lived here For 17 years, if you had applied for the right things when you were eligible you would be a citizen by now.

You need decent legal advice in the US, and I would not know where to start.

I am being serious about getting your status sorted out. If you are in the UK, mum in the US and falls ill, you have the choice of the UK or Mexico or more visa applications.

People live mediocre lives all over the world, you can stay where you are and do that if you want, or you could try your best to turn things around so they are where you want them.







If that fails you will be older and hopefully wise enough to see the dirt through the mist in the postcards of the UK. If you still want to move, well see you at Cookes Pie and Mash on Goldhawk Road.

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