Dear moderators, May I suggest that the stickies on the various forums be tidied up a bit. Some stickies (such as this , this and this ) have had no posts in the past three years and it is likely that the rules regarding those topics has moved on since then. It may be worth revisiting them and revie...

Which category of Tier 2 are you on? Some categories, such as Tier 2 ICT, are not eligible for ILR.

The UK Residence Card is available to non-EEA spouses of either non-British EEA citizens or British citizens returning from the EEA (the Surinder Singh route). As your wife is in the UK under a visa issued under the UK Immigration Rules, she is not eligible for a Residence Card, which is issued unde...

Report stage of the Immigration Bill 2015 in the Lords is on 9th and 15th March. If anybody wants to lobby peers to vote for an amendment that makes it easier to allow older dependent parents to come to the UK, now is the time. The members of the House of Lords who are members of the All-Party Parli...

Also see Page 22 of the internal guidance linked to below.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... _0_EXT.pdf

British Protected Persons (BPPs) were not British subjects, CUKCs (Citizens of the UK and Colonies) or British citizens. BPP status was also lost on acquisition, voluntary or otherwise, of another nationality. So, I doubt if you would have acquired any claim through your ancestors working or living ...

Oh, the EEA route is significantly simpler. To give you a sense of perspective, I am a non-EEA migrant to the UK. To settle in the UK, there was a required minimum salary requirement that I had to meet (which has gone up significantly since my arrival. It is now £35,000.) and if I did not meet it, w...

Further reading
Deprivation of British citizenship and withdrawal of passport facilities

Chapter55: Deprivation and Nullity of British citizenship

There is one big difference. While those who naturalise as British can be deprived of Britishness for extreme disloyalty (I forget the exact definition) even if it makes them stateless, those who are registered as British cannot be so deprived if it would make them stateless. The term you are looki...

If I was not from EU, I would qualify purely through Surinder Singh route, How would you have qualified under SS? it is like I am being punished for being EU national. Don't get me started on how privileged EEA citizens are in the UK in terms of immigration law. Timeline looks something like this -...

To the best of my knowledge, the Channel Islands are a part of the EU for the purposes of free movement of goods, but not a part of the EU for the purposes of immigration or freedom of movement. Indeed, you yourself mentioned that you were "issued Guernsey work permit" for working in Guernsey, which...

Do you have a national identity card in addition to a passport? You can use that to travel within the EU.

I don't really know what the hell I'm talking about so go easy on me, but is it possible that the other 28 member states agreed with Cameron's renegotiation proposals because they knew they'd never hold up in the European court? :o I think so too. That is what I meant when I said that the deal was ...

I am not sure if it also includes the time while your application is still under consideration and hasn't been decided yet. No. Here is where there is a major diversion between the UK Immigration Rules and the EEA Regulations. Under the UK Immigration Rules, if you have valid leave and you make an ...

Which citizenships do you have and when did you acquire them?

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I am a naturalized British citizen.. previously I had held an Indian Passport. My wife is on her Permanent residence of UK with an Indian passport. I presume that you mean that your wife is on ILR, not PR. If both of you are British citizens and the child is born in India -The child is born solely ...

I would not get too excited about that report. You are correct that the ECHR is a different beast from the EU and that the UK was a founding member. But, the ECHR (European Court of Human Rights) can not force the government to change the laws, it can only suggest to the government. It is typically ...

Be aware that as somebody on a dependent visa, there are limits on your visa that do not apply to your father. Be aware that you may have issues with your visa renewal and with getting ILR, let alone naturalisation, which is years in the future. Being aware of these details, take your decision. At t...

I am currently on a Settlement visa accompanying my mother whother is also not a BC First things first. Citizenship rules and immigration rules (ILR and settlement visa) are different and unrelated. Which one are you talking about? Secondly, which specific visa are you on? Are you on a visa issued ...

However, seeing that I will be working for the same company but in Netherlands, although getting paid over there in the bank account and paying taxes locally, would that pose an issue? Nope, you are practically embodying the principle of free movement of labour. So long as you have moved the center...

The Representation Of the People Act 1918 was repealed in its entirety in 1985 by an Act of the same name . The current law on elections & electoral rules is the Representation of the People Act 1983 . The requirement that a Commonwealth citizen must have leave to remain was inserted by Tony Blair's...

vinny wrote:CSIC during the entire time you were/are a student, unless you were also a family member of a qualified EEA national parent in the UK.

If you have worked part-time continuously during your student years, you could qualify as a worker rather than as a student.

12 months after PR, if you are not married to a British citizen. Typically, if you have been married to an EEA citizen, you would become eligible after 6 years (5 years to get PR+12 months). But the correct way of understanding the rule is PR+12 months. As an aside, you will need to meet the KOLL re...

A Subject Access Request is a copy of all the data that the Home Office (or other government department) has on you. You don't submit an SAR to the Home Office, as it is a copy of the Home Office data anyway. What you do is go through the Home Office data in the SAR and make sure that your evidence ...