ElenaW wrote:791898 wrote:It happened this year after a couple of weeks he applied for tier1 psw, on it's policy it is NOT stated all unspent convictions should be rejected unlike ILR, I
That's I was wondering if drink drive acceptable?!
Drink driving is a very serious offence in the UK so I'm afraid you'll be at the mercy of the IO. It's likely ILR would be refused so probably a better idea to get extensions until it's spent.
Forget what the offence is, or what view an "IO" is likely to take about drink-driving. It's a simple matter of reading off a tariff, what sentence passed, and when. I can't better the summary on Wikipedia:-
"For adults, the rehabilitation period is 5 years for most non-custodial sentences, 7 years for prison sentences of up to 6 months, and 10 years for prison sentences of between 6 months and 2½ years. For a young offender under 18 the rehabilitation period is generally half that for adults. Prison sentences of more than 2½ years can never be spent."
The actual tariff is there somewhere for those that want the full detail, I can't be bothered to find it, but I know that a fine requires a 5-year rehabilitation.
The OP was fined £200. Based on the document in my last post, which appears to supercede that originally posted by Greenie, he
will, not " is likely to", be refused ILR if he applies any time within 5 years from the date of his conviction.
If he can't sustain the circumstances to merit an extension of his Tier1psw, he'd better start thinking about life elsewhere in the world.
