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Not much hope based on your history.kaktusak wrote:anyone?, any thoughts?
@R this is all bonkers. The OP does not even have a 'Chinese wife'.Richard W wrote:I don't see a quick route to PR, but oddly I do see a possible quick route to British citizenship! It would be simpler for you, as you do not need a visa, and do not need to be accompanied by your partner. However, you would have to marry your partner so that you only needed three years lawful residence in the UK. You might be refused citizenship as being of bad character because you were in breach of the immigration laws while a student.
Unless the Home Office loses in the Lounes case, Case C-165/16 to the ECJ, I do not believe your partner can become your sponsor for the purposes of the EEA Regulations without renouncing British nationality. If she renounces British nationality, she might not recover permanent residence. The only advantage of her sponsoring you would be that you would not have to remain in employment until you achieved PR. By that time, newly acquired PR might well be a time-limited status, lasting only as long as the UK remains in the EEA.
Unfortunately a RC for a worker won't invoke the transitional arrangement predicated on holding a RC as a student that saves you from having to show you had CSI as a student.kaktusak wrote:Regarding RC (Registration Certificate?) for EEA citizens I'd received one in 2007 , year after I've registered in WRS, but it was issued to me as a worker (I didn't even consider going to university at this time, it was a career change move I decided to pursue later on). I don't know if it will be right to try to get new RC again, so many years since my move to UK?
I could obviously marry my partner (she hoped that my desire to resolve my legal status in the UK will give me more arguments for a marriage but so far I am still resisting:) but as far as I know it could only remove the need to wait one year after acquiring PR before applying for naturalisation? so no real incentives in terms of PR.
So it seems that there is nothing I could do at the moment, I am thinking about changing my job within a year but I will have to make sure I have a new contract before I hand in a notice to keep my PR clock ticking.
If things got really ugly I could always marry my girlfriend or move to another EEA country, I am sure a nurse and an electronics engineer will be welcomed everywhere .