Isle Of Wight

Dear All,

i am a non-Eu national with EC rights , i am offered a job in the Isle of Wight and i want to know if the Home office considers the Isle a part of the UK - for the purpose of counting absence from the UK as i cannot exceed 6 months outside the country.

if they don't consider it a part of the UK, anyone has experience commuting everyday to the Isle ? like living in UK mainland and takin a ferry everyday to work ? is that practical ?

thanks

UK_BR5 wrote:Dear All,

i am a non-Eu national with EC rights , i am offered a job in the Isle of Wight and i want to know if the Home office considers the Isle a part of the UK - for the purpose of counting absence from the UK as i cannot exceed 6 months outside the country.

if they don't consider it a part of the UK, anyone has experience commuting everyday to the Isle ? like living in UK mainland and takin a ferry everyday to work ? is that practical ?

thanks

Course it is!

Wanderer wrote:

UK_BR5 wrote:Dear All,

i am a non-Eu national with EC rights , i am offered a job in the Isle of Wight and i want to know if the Home office considers the Isle a part of the UK - for the purpose of counting absence from the UK as i cannot exceed 6 months outside the country.

if they don't consider it a part of the UK, anyone has experience commuting everyday to the Isle ? like living in UK mainland and takin a ferry everyday to work ? is that practical ?

thanks

Course it is!

thanks wanderer for your fast reply.

what made me doubt it is a paragraph i read on the European Casework Instructions (chapter 6, page 3) that says :

N.B. We sometimes get applications from people who have lived in the Channel Islands
or the Isle of Man prior to coming to the UK. Time spent in the Channel Islands/Isle of
Man does not count towards the 5-year qualifying period.

Hi, IoW is fully a part of UK!! I work there under HSMP and now ILR...no issues at all!!!

UK_BR5 wrote:

Wanderer wrote:

UK_BR5 wrote:Dear All,

i am a non-Eu national with EC rights , i am offered a job in the Isle of Wight and i want to know if the Home office considers the Isle a part of the UK - for the purpose of counting absence from the UK as i cannot exceed 6 months outside the country.

if they don't consider it a part of the UK, anyone has experience commuting everyday to the Isle ? like living in UK mainland and takin a ferry everyday to work ? is that practical ?

thanks

Course it is!

thanks wanderer for your fast reply.

what made me doubt it is a paragraph i read on the European Casework Instructions (chapter 6, page 3) that says :

N.B. We sometimes get applications from people who have lived in the Channel Islands
or the Isle of Man prior to coming to the UK. Time spent in the Channel Islands/Isle of
Man does not count towards the 5-year qualifying period.

many thanks for the confirmation peejay

What is this nonsense?

The Corkheads are always whining that there aren't any jobs!!

UK_BR5 wrote: N.B. We sometimes get applications from people who have lived in the Channel Islands
or the Isle of Man prior to coming to the UK. Time spent in the Channel Islands/Isle of
Man does not count towards the 5-year qualifying period.

A brief look at the map should confirm the distinction between the Isle of Wight and the Isle of Man.

JAJ wrote:

UK_BR5 wrote: N.B. We sometimes get applications from people who have lived in the Channel Islands
or the Isle of Man prior to coming to the UK. Time spent in the Channel Islands/Isle of
Man does not count towards the 5-year qualifying period.

A brief look at the map should confirm the distinction between the Isle of Wight and the Isle of Man.

yes, i was under the wrong impression that isle of wight was among channel islands.

JAJ wrote:

UK_BR5 wrote: N.B. We sometimes get applications from people who have lived in the Channel Islands
or the Isle of Man prior to coming to the UK. Time spent in the Channel Islands/Isle of
Man does not count towards the 5-year qualifying period.

A brief look at the map should confirm the distinction between the Isle of Wight and the Isle of Man.

Well, maybe, maybe not. Lots of maps don't indicate (or, if they do, not very clearly) that the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands are not part of the United Kingdom. The Isle of Wight, however, is. The geographical position is not the determining factor, however...

Though the isle of wight is part of UK but for the tax purposes HMRC does consider it as a foreign territory.i am not thorough with the exact details but i have lived on isle of man and it is a fact.

pankaj25 wrote:Though the isle of wight is part of UK but for the tax purposes HMRC does consider it as a foreign territory.

This is absolutely, categorically not true.

The Isle of Wight is as part of England as Devon, the Midlands or London. The Isle of Man and the Channel Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark and Herm are however an entirely different kettle of fish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Wight