....and you are prepared to be hugely inconvenienced by having to travel to your spouse's country of residence then stay there for as long as the application can take to process (which can be several months in some cases) - then maybe you are indeed docile and submissive enough to be led by the nos...
Thebook is being revised / reformatted and the test is also being revised, but the Home Office have said there is no expiry date on a successful test pass.
Although the BritainUSA website makes it difficult to contact visa offices in the USA without taking out a second mortgage, the Foreign Office website has both a fax number and an email address for the LA consulate, so it might be worth giving one of those a try - if others don't come up with a bett...
If your baby is holding a Stateless Document and was born in the UK he is automaticaly is British. You need to apply for a British passport without the need for registration/naturalisation. An application for a British passport should be made to your regional Passport Office. Application forms can ...
After consulting with his line manager the adviser said that he suspected that the lack of a three-year referee - for whatever reason - might result in the caseworker refusing the application. Which would almost certainly be illegal if registration was an entitlement. And while it might be theoreti...
Cheers John - I've only got Acrobat Reader, I'm afraid. But that's OK - I don't want to do anything elaborate - I just find it handy occasionally to be able to copy odd bits of text from the guidance notes, to use as quotes when answering queries. (I'm the world's worst typist, so copy & paste is mu...
I've just had a (depressing) word with the helpline... After consulting with his line manager the adviser said that he suspected that the lack of a three-year referee - for whatever reason - might result in the caseworker refusing the application. He made the point (which had occurred to me) that th...
I don't think that's a good idea at all, as a first step...
It isn't as if IND are uncontactable. There are bricks & mortar and email addresses on their website, and they have a nationality enquiry telephone number. Why not just ask them and see what they say?
Why do you think that? Form TOC is to enable people to transfer their own limited leave to their new passport (should they wish to pay the hefty fee to do so). It is not for the purpose of transferring leave to the passport of their child. You have made this point three times in various topics. I am...
Given the unseemly and desperately unproductive rush that has accompanied the new forms, I'd guess that the instructions are being redrafted at the moment - the person I spoke to earlier tonight in the enquiry bureau had that distinctive sound of someone quite sensible, pedalling as fast as he could...
0845 010 5200 - open 9am-9pm. FYI, I spoke to them earlier (not on your particular question) and - (you could have knocked me down with a feather) - they weren't yet fully briefed on the new forms but thought that my speculation that they might use the tried & tested IPS list, rather than spend mont...
I'd guess so, to both questions... To save people scrolling through the new guide AN(TD), it says One referee should be a person of professional standing, such as a doctor, a minister of religion, civil servant or a member of a professional body eg accountant or solicitor (but not representing you w...
....I would also question the requirement on form AN page 12 which states that the second referee "should hold a British citizen passport". Have they forgotten that not all British citizens possess a passport? I doubt it - I think they've probably taken a conscious decision that they only want refe...
That'll be fine, H - the moment you get ILR, your child will be entitled to registration as a British citizen, wherever she or she is living. The Embassy in your home country may be slightly surprised to receive the application (which must b submitted through them, and not direct to IND) so a little...
Academic in your case, since you haven't been living together anyway, but you may have seen in recent posts in this forum that the "four year option" (ie immediate settlement where the couple have been living together for more than four years) is set to disappear in April, coinciding with the introd...
As far as I understand it you can't normally apply for an unmarried partner visa (UPV) without having 2 years cohabitation. Others will be able to advise on whether there's any flexibility here.... Para 13.14 of the Entry Clearance volume of Diplomatic Service Procedures (=staff instructions) on th...
I think you may have misread the original post, Anton.... My reading is that the were not married at the time the fiancé visa was applied for, in July, but they then married in November. But I cannot see how an appeal against refusal of a fiancé visa can possibly succeed when the applicant is no lon...
I don't think so, Rob - it seems to me that it would take a change in primary legislation to achieve it. The new requirements for ILR are explicitly for ILR and, as you know, ILR is only one of the ways in which IND consider that a person can meet the requirement "that on the date of the application...
I doubt that there would be any, would there? Although Bermuda is a British Overseas Territory, its immigration legislation is entirely separate from that of the UK. The only possibility that comes to mind is to naturalise as a British Overseas Territories citizen, and then to follow that up with an...
I do wish you would stop peddling this line, Jeff. The rule says that entry clearance should "normally" be refused. It DOES NOT prohibit the issue of entry clearance, as you claim. And there are many instances where overstayers have indeed successfully applied for entry clearance...
I'm no expert here but I'm reasonably sure her 10 years to ILR will start again in March 2007 so ur looking at 2017. Seems fair to me, anyway. I agree that the gaps appear to put paid to a long-residence ILR application in 2007, but if Heinz_Tomato's friend is coming back on a work permit, it seems...
