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The £15,000 is not a typo. That is what it is!Casa wrote:I'd just finished reading through them. Surely £15,000 must be a typo!
Incredible!
Seems to be an error with Nationality applications - single.
At present the fee is £720 and the table shows less.
haaaa. thanks for explaining that. was really confused there. I suppose the ceremony fee could increase as wellnewperson wrote:The £15,000 is not a typo. That is what it is!Casa wrote:I'd just finished reading through them. Surely £15,000 must be a typo!
Incredible!
Seems to be an error with Nationality applications - single.
At present the fee is £720 and the table shows less.
The nationality application fee under Section 6(1) is correct, it just doesn't include the £80 ceremony fee. Section 6(1) naturalisations were £575 in 2008/9, £640 in 2009/10, and will be £655 now. But as before, these all don't include the £80 ceremony fee. The total price in early 2010 will be £735.
According to feedback on another site, there have already been inquiries for bookings at the £15k rate. So I guess it's a matter of create a product, create demand.sac wrote:The near doubling of fees in the dependent relative category is extremely unfair, though. As for the ridiculous £15,000 biometric 'premium plus' service, i can think of only two potential customers for that - Lakshmi Mittal and Roman Abramovich
newperson wrote:According to feedback on another site, there have already been inquiries for bookings at the £15k rate. So I guess it's a matter of create a product, create demand.sac wrote:The near doubling of fees in the dependent relative category is extremely unfair, though. As for the ridiculous £15,000 biometric 'premium plus' service, i can think of only two potential customers for that - Lakshmi Mittal and Roman Abramovich
Lolz Sac and you think Lakshmi Mittal and Roman Abramovich are that DUMB to give £15k to UKBA for a STAMPThe near doubling of fees in the dependent relative category is extremely unfair, though. As for the ridiculous £15,000 biometric 'premium plus' service, i can think of only two potential customers for that - Lakshmi Mittal and Roman Abramovich
I completely agree with you. They push around migrants because migrants can't vote or do anything about the increases really. People will pay crazy fees because they desperately want to live in the uk so IMO it'll just keep going up as people will keep paying.sac wrote:but surely there has to be some upper limit?? i mean, they surely can't have the constitutional licence to just charge any amount they damn well please like and say 'pay up or f**k off', right?
can you imagine the uproar if the government arbitrarily decided to henceforth charge all UK citizens £5,000 per person per year in council tax, justifying it by saying, 'well too bad matey, it costs only a fraction of that to run a council, but pay up if you want your trash collected etc etc - after all you benefit from the system don't you'?
i think this attitude - both from the government and some forum posters - of 'well they're only migrants so we/the govt can do whatever we like and they can't do anything' just sucks.
most migrants are middle-class at best, i don't see why the fees have to be the equivalent of one (or more, if it's a family) month's wages of a hard working tax paying man, just because the blatantly inefficient Labour government and UKBA love to piss away criminally vast sums of money on white-elephant schemes like ID cards and whatnot.
instead of keeping money in people's pockets so they can buy a house, pay for a good education, have a comfortable lifestyle, save up for a rainy day, keep the economy going etc, they charge amounts that encourage, indeed force, credit card debt and dent savings. anyone still wondering why the recession happened?
and then they add insult to injury by saying, in polite officialese, 'oh shut up now and take it up the ars*, there's a good migrant'. they'd do well to remember, today's migrant is tomorrow's citizen - and voter.
I've always said I live in UK plc....newperson wrote:I think it might help to see this process through a cynical lens. It's not really about building a civic contract, official statements to the contrary. It's pure economics, driven by the bottom line. The ideal migrant comes to the UK as a young adult, already fully and highly educated and ready to work. He or she works here for their whole career contributing to the Exchequer the entire time and then leaves the UK at retirement age. No kids, no problem. In fact, that's even better.
Because that ideal scenario is so rare, the Government tinkers at the edges to extract as much as it can. High fees and moving goalposts are part of that scheme. But again, that's all business. I just wish they'd be more upfront about it.
True it is all about economics. But it's all about economics in the us as well and they charge about 1/2 the price (this is if we pretend that there is no currency difference). Yet they still make tons of money on migrants. It just sucks is what I'm sayin . Thing is though, I would rather pay more and have my stuff processed quickly. I'm the most impatient person you'll ever meet.newperson wrote:I think it might help to see this process through a cynical lens. It's not really about building a civic contract, official statements to the contrary. It's pure economics, driven by the bottom line. The ideal migrant comes to the UK as a young adult, already fully and highly educated and ready to work. He or she works here for their whole career contributing to the Exchequer the entire time and then leaves the UK at retirement age. No kids, no problem. In fact, that's even better.
Because that ideal scenario is so rare, the Government tinkers at the edges to extract as much as it can. High fees and moving goalposts are part of that scheme. But again, that's all business. I just wish they'd be more upfront about it.
The service is called Mobile Biometric Enrolment & Case-working (Premium+)...So I guess you can ask them to come at your house and do biometric and fill in the forms any time you want, i.e. even 2am in the morning and get your passport stamped immediately! Is good to be rich isn't it?boulevardofbrokendreams wrote:No the £15,000 is not an error. An advisor told me that this is for the rich people (really really rich people!) that can't be bothered doing things the simpleton way.