FWIW, I'm pretty agnostic on this issue, but I suspect that, far from being outraged, British public opinion would probably be as agnostic as I am... I suspect that most people nowadays would be fairly puzzled by the idea of having large numbers of British people being unable to live in the UK. I ha...
BOCs are "subject to control" under the Immigration Act 1971. This means, essentially, that they have no more right to live in the UK than a citizen of any other "non-visa" country. They can visit the UK without a visa but they still need to meet the requirements of the Immigrati...
The IND website contains the following 2.11.1 The Constitution of the Federation of Malaysia provides that Malaysian citizens may by order be deprived of citizenship if: • they have acquired citizenship of any country outside the Federation either by registration, naturalisation or other voluntary a...
Could you just take us through the reasons why you believe you're qualified to be a BOC, uk-freak? Where and when you and father were born would be a start...
My main quibble with your petition is that the wording on the website is not really adequate. It says British Citizens who accompany their Non-EU spouses on visits to the UK are denied entry without valid visas. which is simply not true, unless things have got more draconian very recently. British c...
Not much comfort, but I think it can simply depend on the pressure of work in the particular caseworking group dealing with the application. From I can gather, all of the groups deal with "bread and butter" straighforward naturalisation applications, but some of them have been trained to d...
Does anyone know how to acquire information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, in particular "Not disclosed” guidance from IND ?.......<snip> .......Is it possible HO in contrary to what is published above to decide their cases based on different Guides? Have a look at this page on the...
There was I, rebuking busubi for jumping to the conclusion that you were intending to attempt to gain ILR by deception, and here are you, proposing that very thing.
Sorry busubi...
I'm locking this topic, stdabhaidh - you might like to look at rule 3 - here
I'm glad it worked for you, coco, but I still can't square it with the requirement of the Immigation Rules that you needed to be living in Ghana when you made your application. I must say I'm very impressed with the flexibility they showed, but I'm not convinced that there are a lot of other posts w...
I think my beef with the way IND deal with COA is that (unless they've changed the page since I last looked a couple of weeks ago) it doesn't say in clear terms that the COA only helps you get married or "partnered" - it doesn't mean that, having gone through the ceremony, you can automati...
I have to say that I think she was lucky that it worked... I've glanced through the topic you've referred to, and there's certainly no suggestion that there was any attempt to deceive, but it could so easily have gone wrong. It isn't actually against UK law to send a passport across international bo...
I think you may find that the "ILR clock" was reset when you got your WP for your current job. As I understand it, in order to qualify for ILR, you need five years on a WP. If I'm reading your post correctly, you had a gap between leaving your first employer and your third employer - the j...
You should try to be as accurate as possible, but so long as you make it clear that some of the dates are "best estimates" you should be OK. Could you try to assemble your other questions into one post, and put it as a new topic in the body of the forum, rather than up here among the "...
To be honest, I'm not sure whether a dual British/EU national can go down the "EU route" when you're already living in UK, but I would suggest that it's not necessarily a good thing anyway, in these circumstances.... It's true that the EU Family Permit is free of charge, but the regular &q...
Very sorry to hear of your difficulties, cornwell. I note you say that "it looks like" the relationship is over, so I hope there might still be a chance that it isn't... I'm no great shakes at work permit requirements, but there's certainly no reason in principle why you shouldn't switch t...
Sorry to say it it, but I think that the Home Office was correct to give you IAS's phone number. I have a sinking feeling that the reason HO couldn't advise what category of extension your other half needs is that there isn't one. Even if we could somehow rerun things so that the COA was issued earl...
Hmmmmmmm Ray specified that he and his father were born in " British India" , and I was proceeding on that basis - ie that they were born in a part (or parts) of India that was (or were) not Princely States. Hence the possibility of his having been a BS "by descent" wouldn't aris...
Ray From a nationality point of view, you and your family look like this: Your grandfather was a British subject by birth in the UK. On 1.1.49, he became a citizen of the UK & Colonies (CUKC) under section 12(1)(a) of the British Nationality Act 1948. He would have acquired the right of abode (R...
One of the gentlemen on this forum answered my query on another newsgroup, but didn't give me a reference which I can present to officials when I need it...... That'll be JAJ and me..... The Declaration is described and quoted in para 3 of Chapter "LV" in Part Two of the IND Nationality I...
I can't comment on your chances of getting Greek citizenship but I can say that, from what you have posted, you have no chance of getting a UK Ancestry Visa - having a UK-born great -grandmother is simply one generation too far removed from UK. For UK Ancestry to work, it absolutely must be a grandp...
As BOCs they are "subject to immigration control" which means that they would still need to satisfy the Immigration Officer that they plan only to visit UK, and that they intend to leave the UK after their visit... I'd imagine that, at a bare minimum this would involve return tickets, evid...
Seems to me that they're very likely to be entitled to be registered as British citizens under section 4B of the British Nationality Act 1981 - details in Guide BOS, here , on the IND website. This gives them unrestricted right to live in UK. If they remain simply BOCs, they can visit UK without a v...
Yes , you will still need visas, wherever BOCs need visas, I'm afraid. ILR only makes it easier for entry into UK.... As you'll have seen, Marco and I were both posting at about the same time - I agree with him that the registration option is the better one - no test, and (at the moment, at least) r...
