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immigration-for-family-members/new-rule ... l#p1589475secret.simon wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 11:01 pmYes.
Regulation 13 of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 of 21st August 2017 specifically excluded "chargeable assisted conception services" from the purview of Regulation 11 of the original NHS Charging Regulations 2015, which exempted people whose latest immigration applications were decided before charging for overseas patients was brought into force.
Also see the Explanatory Memorandum for the 2017 Amendment Regulations, from Paragraph 7.36.
Also see this Mumsnet forum thread, which looks at alternatives, such as relocating to other countries for the purpose of IVF.
vinny wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2018 2:18 pmGuidance on overseas visitors hospital charging regulations wrote:Assisted conception services
5.15. Since 21 August 2017, those exempt from charge under Regulation 10 (health surcharge arrangements) or 11 (transitional arrangements) are not exempt from charge in relation to assisted conception services.
Even those born British citizens can be billed at 150% of NHS costs for treatments. Some of these would have paid all their working taxes to the UK (40+ years) and have contributed for the hospitals to be built/equipment needed by the NHS. If anybody has grounds for complaint, it is these pensioners.SettledStCitizenUK wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 10:10 pmIsn't it kind of unfair if a British person wants kids but isn't allowed to get this on the NHS because the wife isn't a citizen/IRL person? Feels a bit discriminating to me, given that one parent would be a citizen.
SettledStCitizenUK wrote: ↑Fri Sep 24, 2021 2:40 pmJust to add that I was born British Citizen but my parents moved to Italy when I was 3 years old. I've been living in London since university.
Your wifeSettledStCitizenUK wrote: ↑Fri Sep 24, 2021 2:36 pm...I have also paid taxes and NI for two decades in the UK, ...
As you were born a British citzen and have been living in the UK for the last 20 years, how is your wife on a EEA Family permit? As that expires in 2024, does that mean she only came to the UK/became your wife in 2019?
@secret.simon I did think about the British born citizen using Surinder Singh for an EU Family Permit for his wife in 2019, but couldn't work that out either as he had said he had been living back in the UK since university and had paid two decades of taxes and NI to the UK.secret.simon wrote: ↑Sat Sep 25, 2021 4:22 amTo @JB007, assuming that the OP disclosed his dual citizenship, the OP's application may have been considered under the Surinder Singh route, as Lounes is plainly not applicable (to the OP, Lounes is the case law that applies to dual British-EU citizens who naturalised in the UK; Surinder Singh is the case law that applies to British citizens that exercised treaty rights in the rest of the EU while simultaneously living with non-British family members).
JB007 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 24, 2021 3:33 pmSettledStCitizenUK wrote: ↑Fri Sep 24, 2021 2:40 pmJust to add that I was born British Citizen but my parents moved to Italy when I was 3 years old. I've been living in London since university.SettledStCitizenUK wrote: ↑Fri Sep 24, 2021 2:36 pm...I have also paid taxes and NI for two decades in the UK, ...
SettledStCitizenUK wrote: ↑Fri Sep 24, 2021 7:54 pm"As that expires in 2024, does that mean she only came to the UK/became your wife in 2019?" correct
Indeed, in this case, I am inclined to agree that the OP may not have made the correct application for his spouse (not that making the correct application would give them access to free fertility treatment either).JB007 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 25, 2021 6:17 am@secret.simon I did think about the British born citizen using Surinder Singh for an EU Family Permit for his wife in 2019, but couldn't work that out either as he had said he had been living back in the UK since university and had paid two decades of taxes and NI to the UK.
As secret.simon has explained, unless they qualified for the EU Surinder Singh route, a British born citizen sponsored their non-EEA partner to the UK on a spouse visa. The partner pays the Immigration Health Surcharge with their visa application.SettledStCitizenUK wrote: ↑Fri Sep 24, 2021 2:36 pmDo you happen to know if any other treatments, once my wife is pregnant, are also not covered because she only is an EEA Family Permit holder? E.g. ultrasounds, giving birth at the hospital, follow-up check-ups on the baby, etc. Are these costs then free on the NHS? Or are these deemed essential (ultrasounds, giving birth at the hospital, follow-up check-ups on the baby, etc.)?