I am regularly defending such refusals in the courts.

Send me a copy of the refusal and I will see what can be done about that.

As for your family passports. The UK BA is usually only sending them to the port of exit provided you sent them copies of your flight tickets a few weeks in advance.

You may, especially if you would be applying to return to the UK as a Returning Resident. I have seen such a refusal just a week a so ago. The chap wrote in his RR application (prepared by his secretary) that he was return to the UK to check his flat... Probably he will lose his appeal now, as it wa...

Hello: (1) Is this process correct ? Can the UKBA withhold issuing the first visa (RR) if he does not withdraw his second appeal (EDP) ? - I have seen this before. The HC is confused because your father lodged a 2nd application while appealing the 1st refusal of the 1st application. The HC is now in...

We have set slots as well as are normally able to get further slots 5 days a week, but we are in Birmingham, therefore we are accredited with PEO Birmingham.

Mind, though, that we are a private legal firm and that we do not sell slots.

It has been announced today that the Immigration Advisory Service (IAS) went into administration: http://www.legalservices.gov.uk/civil/cls_news_12838.asp 2 weeks ago I was in the court (IAC) and I happen to see some 4 IAS appeals listed in one of the court rooms on that day. IAS had quite a number ...

About 3-4 months on average, on the basis of the clients' applications. We normally receive Certificates of Applications within 1-3 weeks. In some cases we had to ask for the CoAs to be re-sent. Tony Dalton, a Chief Caseworker at the Nationality and European Casework was quite helpful in the past, i...

Came across an interesting letter from the UK BA. Briefly, the Worker Registration Scheme (WRS) will be abolished on the 30th April 2011. Unfortunately, those A8 EU nationals from EU, who joined EU in May 2004 had to be registered under the Worker Registration Scheme (WRS) in order to be eligible fo...

Good News. Certificates of Approval During a Commons’ Committee debate on Monday, the Immigration Minister indicated that the Government planned that the Certificates of Approval scheme would be formally scrapped on 9 May 2011 (the Lords are to debate the Remedial Order to scrap this scheme on the...

No, you cannot.

2 options:

- if you still have a valid visa - withdraw your application, do the business in your country, return and re-apply

- if your visa has already expired, but you do need to go, withdraw the application, do your business and apply for an EEA Family Permit from your country

As long as the 5 year period was a qualified period under the Immigration (EEA) Regulations 2006, that is, you had be be a family member of an EEA national.

A non-EEA citizen must reside in the UK as a non EEA family memmber for 5 years to qualify for Permanent Residence.

Your wife will have to prove that she has been economically active for a period of 5 years, too.

This is because they are not generally accepting any bookings at PEOs between 23-12-2010 and 04-01-2011.

This also includes law firms, as we got a letter from them a few weeks ago informing us that they would be not accepting legal reps for the above period, too.

Treasury solicitors confirmed on 20 July that the Secretary of State will not be appealling Secretary of State for the Home Department v Pankina [2010] EWCA Civ 719 to the Supreme Court. I understand from members that UK Border Agency staff various both in and out of the UK have apprised them of the...

Indeed nice PEO, normally there on Fridays. On average if there were no gaps, problems etc they grant ILR on the basis of 10 years in about 2 hours. Some hard cases, when I feel it, I advise to obtain a copy of a file under FOI/SAR. To obtain a FOI/SAR costs £10 and takes about 2 months. What else ...

You can trace your case here: http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/asylu ... g-my-case/

From my experience the average turn around was 6 months from submisison of the file to the Home Office.

Bombarding may help, although if everyone does it, the system will be clogged up. Our average time for eea2 is 1.5 months, eea1 - around 4 weeks. I do remember some cases from last years, when indeed the waiting time was in excess of 6 months. The problem would be normally solved after a quick conve...

You were short of some time on your visa, and instead of seeking extension you were advised to do something else ?

What exactly were you promised by your legal rep ?

In most cases NCS will be OK.

Our average case consideration time was 3 weeks for naturalization based on marriage and WP. Max - 3 months for the case when there was a number of category switching.

If her visa was issued for more than 6 months, she could switch in the UK.

My guess would be FLRM. The reason is that they cannot apply for anything in line with you, so they have to wait for you. You will be, hopefully, Settled with ILR. In this case they should be applying with FLRM. Wht not with SETM - they should have been dependants of someone who is British or Settle...

You can check the team that is working with your case here:

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/asylu ... g-my-case/

Our current end to end process was around 3-6 months with simialar cases.

If no removal orders (IS151A/D) were made, you could have your ILR granted, provied you meet all therequirements of the Rules. If you were served (even on file, without your knowledge, say, when the Home Office sent you a letter and you did not recieve it), your "immigration" clock was stopped and y...

In most cases - yes.

ILR is a UK grant of status and refers to the UK only.

- passport - 2 recent photos - marriage certificate (with certified translation, if not in Engslish) nothing else really hallo am anewbie, want your help i have a PEO appointment coming soon and am a WP holder my husband adn 2 kids are my dependants, wanted to find out if they need any of my husband...

Under the EU law/Regulations 2006 you can remain in the UK if you can prove that: - you have been married in excess of 3 years - BOTH of you were economically active for at least 12 months in the UK - you are divorced when you lodge your application to remain on the above grounds to the Home Office ...