Criminals The Home Office earlier published a consultation paper on making it a condition of entry that spouses who apply for visas to join husband or wife in the UK should have to pass a basic English test. Around 47,000 spouses were admitted to the UK last year. So spouses who don't speak english...
Well... as a side note, I have read several articles and conclusions that the fingerprinting technology is not perfect or fool-proof. There have been many cases where innocent people have been prosecuted purely because their finger print matched with one in a crime scene. There was also once case of...
I liked this comment from one guy who posted his comment in the times online :-) in regard to this news item as link referenced in the OP's post above. Of course, he is referring to British passport here, but i am sure he did mean British citizenship though! :-) Anyway, his view point is absolutely ...
As regards what you have posted, what are you trying to prove? That the Daily Mail has an anti-immigration stance? If that is the case, well it is hardly big news, is it! Well, leaving all that daily mail thing aside, defenitely it is news to us all that one can sponsor their family (parents etc.) ...
Have to say, seems slightly odd. But if it ain't broken, I would prefer not to try and fix it! If you think it was issued in an error, remember that if it always better to fix it. I have read numerous cases in this very board, where people have been issued visas wrongly in spite of the fact that it...
lancoalase, Reading through the recent posts on similar threads (like driving offence declaration) , i think you may already have a problem with your ILR itself! Others may be able to confirm on this to you and i may be wrong too! Are you sure you had declared these driving offences in your ILR appl...
Hi All, Finally, we have the grand news from the HO today (or should I say BIA now ;-)) My wife's ILR application has now been granted successfully! :-) We are so so happy today! It was worth the wait - the last 4 weeks! Pretty quick turnaround, i would say! :-) Incidentally, the fantastic/sweet coi...
I guess this directive is not really being practised well across the Union. I have read somewhere that Belgium, Italy, Finland and Luxembourg have informed the Commission that they will not meet the transposition deadline (30 April 2006). I am not sure what the status is now, but i would not be surp...
Think of what will happen from next year, once hte ID card regime comes into law books and you have to get one... and the criminals get hold of it before even it reaches your address :-( With ID cards stolen, your entire identity will be stolen in minutes and misused against you and you (the innocen...
Hi, Sorry for nicking your thread to post a diferent question to you: can you tell me the timeline of your Canada PR processing - i.e. from start to the approval, how many months/years it took to get it done? And your citizenship (if it had any favourable impact in the processing!) In the meantime, ...
Just to update on things: We sent out the postal application (SET(M) for ILR) with loads of evidence (nicely bound and indexed etc.), nice cover letters (mine and my wife's) :-) The HO recd. it on 20th March and i called them up today find out the status. They said it will take about 14 weeks :-( As...
relatively easy access to US job market, Nope, that is not true! Just having a canadian PR does not give you rights to acces US job market. In fact, it does not give you any easy way to travel to US if you hold a visa-national Passport. You will need appropriate visas to enter the US. better living...
ECO assessing my husbands application ignored all evidence of relationship and insisted we would not live together I see. Now add this to the list: The ECOs are not only blind and they do lie on record , but its also that they think they are God! :-) who can tell everybody's present and future ;-) ...
The ECO could not have read it. My self-employed status became "unemployed" despite all bank and income records, doubt as to frequency of contact was made despite copious original phone records showing time/date/duration and number called three times a day *every* day, emails, text messages, etc. e...
Hi, I think visa-nationals will have to go out of UK, to their home country, to switch visa category, but i am not too sure about this considering the Immigration laws change too frequently in this country these days. Havig said that, I hate this technicality of flying out all the way to home countr...
As i read and hear more and more of these appalling events in this country, i feel so proud about my ex-home country India! In my 27 years of my stay in India, i have never heard of stuff like this! And remember it is a developing nation as well! (unlike the so-called developed nations!) Appalling, ...
The answer is that the ECOs or as a matter of fact none of the Immigration officers can read! They are practically blind! There is abundant evidence for this across several posts in this forum, and so we don't need a poll for this :-) Read one other case here (especially the experience narrated by o...
However, criticisms of this nature pre-empting an OISC investigation are tantamount to defamation. Please edit your post to remove this. If this practice of threats are encouraged, then i guess the next thing will be the IND which will say "please complain any problems of our service quality to app...
Sorry to hear about all that, Rajeev. What pains me most is having worked for almost 4 years in the UK legally, I was not even given a chance to explain what happenned. What strikes me is that on one hand they say you have to leave as soon as possible, on the other, they cause the delay. That is Bri...
Hi, I am going to apply for PIO card for my daughter (who is a British citizen, and she was born in India) . I am an ex-indian, now a British citizen with Indian PIO card. My wife is an Indian citizen. I will need to post my wife's Indian passport along with other documents for her postal applicatio...
