If you have lived in the UK for the first ten years of your life and do not have absence of more than 90 days per year, you can register as a British citizen using Form T . The custodial sentence may however put a spanner in the works as you may thus fail the good character requirements You can appl...

See similar thread.

Thanks for clarifying that, CR001 . my Annual Salary is 25,700. Is this enough to support 4 dependents No. An additional gross annual income of £3,800 is required for the first child sponsored in addition to the Partner and an additional £2,400 for each further child. The level of the financial requ...

They will need to switch visa and apply on FLR(M) and meet all the requirements, English (for spouse) and Financial. They do not qualify for ILR as you have ILR based on long residence and not the PBS route, where they would have qualified with you as Tier 2 General dependents. http://www.immigrati...

God knows what status I have after refusal: illegal Without claiming any recourse to divine knowledge, I can advise you that EU citizens in the UK can not be illegally present within the UK. The EU Treaties (and the EEA Agreement) allow you to be present anywhere in the EEA at any time. But residen...

Obie wrote:you are a person who has huge interest in law, politics and research.

Why, you charmer, thank you.

Research also involves asking people who may have the knowledge to share that knowledge. Which is what I did here.

It seems the OP's views may not have been an aberration.

Inside the British Asian Brexit vote – and why it contains a few surprises

Also see sticky above on Older dependent relatives.

we got separated 2 years ago Are you just living separately and legally married or are you legally divorced? My wife never work in last 5 years Can you give us your wife's UK immigration history? When did she arrive? How has she exercised treaty rights in the UK during her entire stay here? How lon...

You can start by looking at the IND.nl website . If you are open to working anywhere in the EU, including the Netherlands, you may also wish to look at the EU Blue Card, which allows you to work across the EU (excluding the UK, Ireland and Denmark). Have a look at the Netherlands page for EU Blue Ca...

In other words, do the years spent in the country as a non EU national count towards the 6 years? No. You need to have five continuous years of residency under the EEA Regulations to automatically acquire PR under EU law. Periods of staying in the UK under visas issued under the UK Immigration Rule...

You can also write to the Home Office to make a Subject Access Request for a copy of the data they have on you and the dates they have on their records. That may help you understand the case against you and give you grounds to progress. I came in Feb 2004 as tourist and converted my visa to student ...

As only few months left to his PR and wife is already on PR but has stop working recently after getting PR. Suppose everything is fine between husband and wife and he complete his five years. Will it not affect his application for PR as his wife is not exercising anymore? So long as wife has acquir...

Obie wrote:If there is a child and arrangements are made for the child to stay in the UK and see the father, then the 3 years requirement is not applicable.

But, would that not move the case from RoR under the Directive to a Chen/Zambrano "derivative rights not leading to settlement" case?

What is the relevant ECJ/CJEU case law on "marriage of convenience"?

Tanya0044 wrote:does the fact that I'm now British help in anyway?

Yes. You can register your child as a British citizen using Form MN1 under Section 1(3). But that will cost £936.

It appears both were just registered and not naturalized. That is absolutely fine. Before 1983, Commonwealth citizens acquired British citizenship by registration, not by naturalisation (which was reserved for non-Commonwealth citizens). After 1983, children acquire British citizenship by registrat...

The professional referee can be any nationality, but must meet the professional requirements . The other referee must be a British citizen with a British passport. One referee must be a person of any nationality who has professional standing, such as a minister of religion, civil servant or a member...

As far as I know, it is up to the Home Office to prove that I am not eligible for naturalisation so the fact that they destroyed my file shouldn't be an issue. It is actually the other way round. It is your responsibility to prove that you meet the requirements, not theirs to disprove. There is no ...

On what basis is your partner in the UK? If your non-EEA partner is already in the UK legally, he should be able to apply for a Residence Card, not a Family Permit. Family Permits are for non-EEA citizen family members of EEA citizens to enter the UK. The rights of your non-EEA partner in the UK wil...

Good spot. At almost exactly a year between hearing and judgment, it is one of the longest pending cases in UK Supreme Court history (which of course only started in 2009).

Perhaps this thread may be more relevant in the Family Members immigration forum. May the mods consider moving it there?

Surely if they search for him they will know he is British I have his date of birth? I could be wrong, but there is, to the best of my knowledge, no central database of British citizens. So, the Home office can't just search for it. The British citizenship or other immigration status (such as EEA c...

The complicating factor is that Chinese law automatically considers people of Chinese descent living in Hong Kong as Chinese citizens. Hence, BNOs of Chinese descent can not register under any section of British law that requires you to hold no other nationality. So, it comes down to your ethnicity....

Your cousin's mother was a CUKC without Right of Abode in 1983, which is why she became a British Overseas citizen and not a British citizen in 1983. She was subsequently registered as a British citizen because she did not have any other citizenship. Your cousin can only inherit the status of the mo...

Tanya0044 wrote:His father has refused to sign the passport form to get my son a passport can I still apply for it and use the DNA test to prove that he is eligible?

If the father is uncooperative, how will you prove that he is a British citizen? You will need proof of that, in addition to the DNA proof.