"Thanks for your email, I have checked our records and can see that your current right to work expires on 03/12/2014. It is a legal requirement, to retain the Right to Work on your previous Visa status and an application must be made prior to the expiry of your current Visa." So annoying.... Feels ...
I'm married to a EEA national and on a Tier2 visa. Does that mean, even if I don't have a EEA2 residence card : 1) I can switch job anytime without needing a sponsor so long I remain married? In law, yes. In practice, no. If you weren't who you said you were, your employer could be fined £20,000 if...
Can a visa national never personally refused entry to or expelled from Ireland lawfully enter the Republic of Ireland by land without a visa in the company of her genuine British spouse if the spouse is unencumbered by Irish nationality?
We've been discussing what seems to be the same case on Thaivisa. Dmax/Dirtycash is dual British-Irish and it seems no third EEA host state is involved (so no Surinder Singh), so it seems that since McCarthy the wife no longer counts as a family member of an EEA national for entry without a visa or ...
I have two fresh points to add: From the answer to Q13 in Frequently asked questions about the illegal working civil penalty scheme : An Indefinite Leave to Remain stamp in an expired passport is not acceptable because it is insecure, easily forgeable and the person might no longer have their indefi...
See also Employers can now accept evidence of indefinite leave to remain (ILR) in an expired passport Do check if this is still in practice? There's no reason for it to be - the relevant change in the regulations came in in May this year (2014), while that announcement seems to date back to 2010. I...
M4HON, your employer didn't need to check you every year. Before May 2014, you had a List A document, which is as good as a British citizen passport, so checks did not need to be repeated. I don't believe there is a requirement to check that a List A document accepted in the past would still be a Li...
As those working on ILR who don't intend to naturalise may have to obtain a BRP (if one does not already have one), I've been looking at the mechanism for renewing the BRP - it expires every 10 years (5 years for children). I'm wondering if my analysis is correct, so I'd welcome other people's thoug...
Children born in the UK subject to immigration control don't need leave to remain or enter until they have left the UK (I think read Common Travel Area for UK, but I'm not sure).
On various sites I've found the following two paragraphs, though without clear attribution: However, the UKBA has reviewed the policy and, under the UKBA’s illegal working civil penalty regime, from 2 August 2010 it has been decided that if you are an employer you can accept indefinite leave to rema...
I am a British citizen lacking any EU-privileges; my wife is Thai and currently has ILR. My wife has the potential problem that the evidence of permission to work in the UK is an ILR vignette in an expired passport. She also has a letter recording the grant of ILR. It seems that a new employer will ...
I can definitely see problems for landlords having to keep a check on the expiry date of their tenants' visas. I suppose the expectation will be that when this happens, the lease will have to be broken and the tenant evicted unless the tenancy is only given for the duration of the visa. There doesn...
What happens to current tenants, without valid visas, whose lease may not end for another year to two? Clause 30 'Transitional Provisions' excludes pre-existing tenancies unless there has been a change of tenant, in which case it is as clear as mud. The bill doesn't read as though limited right to ...
This law requires that the tenant has valid visa or leave at the time of renting or for the whole renting period? For example, if there is only 6 months left of my leave at the time of my tenancy renewal, I cannot renew as the landlord rents only for 1 year???? However, I believe that some form of ...
I suppose that the British/settled spouse may do the renting. I had assumed that is what would be done. But the problem is that it is not just the tenant himself who will need to not be disqualified. All of the adults whom the landlord permits to reside at the property must themselves not be disqua...
Am I right in thinking that the 2013 Immigration Bill would effectively outlaw the use of privately rented accommodation for adults when they first arrive on a settlement visa? There seems to be the chicken and egg situation that the incoming spouse cannot be granted permission to reside in the acco...
The most up to date tally of deprivations 'conducive to the public good' I know of is at An Act of Exile . So far the only person to be deprived that had a deep-rooted British ancestry is David Hicks, and he had a prior nationality. I'm wondering whether the power will come to be applied to ordinary...
