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Hi everyone

I'm a British citizen (naturalised as a South African, civil partnered to uk national) and I'm wondering if there's any way I could bring my cousin and brother / family to the UK?

This won't happen for another year at least so I have the opportunity to start gathering evidence needed but wondered :

1. Is this a realistic route or should I look at other options?
2. What evidence do I need to start gathering? Supporting finances etc?

Thanks for the help!

gamma911 wrote:Hi everyone

I'm a British citizen (naturalised as a South African, civil partnered to uk national) and I'm wondering if there's any way I could bring my cousin and brother / family to the UK?

This won't happen for another year at least so I have the opportunity to start gathering evidence needed but wondered :

1. Is this a realistic route or should I look at other options?
2. What evidence do I need to start gathering? Supporting finances etc?

Thanks for the help!

Basically Surinder Singh route, which means 12 months shift of your Centre of Life to another EU state, and 'wholly maintaining' your extended family before and after.

You'll have to be quick, the way public opinion is UK may well not be in the EU by then of will most likely have negotiated it's own terms WRT freedom of moment etc.

Or Scotland might be independent, and well welcome migrants

Thanks for the reply though. Is 12 months in another member state the minimum period?
And when you say 'wholly' that means completely support before and after?

gamma911 wrote:Or Scotland might be independent, and well welcome migrants

Thanks for the reply though. Is 12 months in another member state the minimum period?
And when you say 'wholly' that means completely support before and after?

Scotland might not be in the EU though, such a shame their votes will be based on not really knowing anything, currency, EU status, Borders, Schengen, the Euro etc.

Someone did it after three months on this forum, and no-one knows really what the period is, read here and see what the consensus is but one thing is for certain, the UK wants this door shut.

AIUI the dependency has to be beforehand (wait for others though, though that would make sense) and for an unspecified reasonable period (i.e. not a couple of weeks sending a few quid).

If I where you I'd research it bit then ask again, it's a wide open subject with different interpretations and realistically, an uncertain outcome.