I still don't understand what 'interview' you are referring to?? How did he apply for ILR, in person or by post?? Ancestry visa to ILR is one of the easiest and least complication routes, trust me. If it's the easiest route I don't understand how so many people still managed to give the wrong ...
Hi, still trying to get to the bottom of what could happen here. The responses cut off after I confirmed that his dad got his visa through descent, fair enough. We are all unpaid volunteers. It is difficult to offer advice via a third party and usually it is better for the person concerned to post ...
I've posted in another subforum about my brother-in-law's failed ILR application - but my current query refers to his ancestry route 5-year visa. He put in an ILR application right at the end of a 5 year visa, so that when it was refused, he was already an overstayer. He was given a 14 day grace ...
Hi, still trying to get to the bottom of what could happen here. The responses cut off after I confirmed that his dad got his visa through descent, fair enough. Now my question is whether you think there is a strong likelihood that his 5-year visa will come through with no issues in about a month's ...
Get the additional info and then we can advise further. Sooner rather than later to help him. Thank you! As keeps happening, it's more complicated than I thought. His father was born in Bulawayo to British parents. So he got his citizenship by descent, his wife got hers through marriage to him, and ...
I've been told that his mother had some kind of limited window of time within which to register him with some sort of travelling ambassador in Zim before he turned one. Only relevant for him to be British otherwise than by descent. If his parents were married at the time of his birth or anytime ...
Not sure why none of the 'experts' never raised this issue or why he got an Ancestry visa instead of a passport. I know! I've been trying to get to the bottom of this for ages! I have to look into whether his parents' parents are British, but as far as I know they are! I've been told that his ...
In the UK. I believe he moved to Zim as a teenager, and then was back in the UK for a few years as an adult, and then back to Zim again for 20 or so years, and back to the UK again about 7 years ago.
Thanks. I don't understand what they expect a small family with a mortgage and a wife on maternity leave, to live on, if they don't allow him to work. I don't even understand why he isn't allowed to have citizenship off the back of his son, wife, parents and siblings all being citizens. I know other ...
The ancestry visa has to either be approved before he is eligible for ILR or he can vary that application to ILR if the application is still pending when he becomes eligible. In the meantime he cannot work unfortunately Thanks - and I suppose there's no point in asking how long that might take? How ...
I think there are many immigration experts on this forum. I'd really appreciate it if someone could offer advice on what to do next in this case. Is it really just a case of waiting (suspended and unpaid) and hoping that the visa application goes through?
I do not understand what does 'temporary visa' even mean in your story (FLR ??!) but the moment any new application is put forward within that 14 days, the section 3C cover comes to an end and the person becomes an overstayer. Therefore he has no right to work unless the pending application is ...
Sound familiar to anyone? My brother-in-law's story: Background My sister's husband was born in Zimbabwe, to an English dad and Zambian mother. His parents had both his older siblings in the UK, and then moved back to Zim and had him. They are all British citizens (his mother through marriage), but ...
