That's a good question. I don't know, but I'm interested to hear the answer as well. I may have to renew my LTR before I can renew my Canadian passport. One would think that the HO would make the sticker valid for as long as circumstances allow, not just based on the validity of the passport. It wou...
This question has been addressed quite frequently on this forum. Your time as a work permit dependent will NOT count towards the five years' ILR provision. You have no five-year "clock" running to speak of at the moment. If you get a work permit/HSMP of your own, you will need to spend fiv...
Just a quick question... When we send in bank statements to back up a FLR/SET application, are we supposed to submit all the pages from a monthly statement? Or does the summary of accounts on the first page suffice? I don't mind sending it all in, but for three months worths of statements by post, i...
You might wish to have a look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_nationality_law_and_Hong_Kong It would seem that if your partner is Chinese, or is not a war-widow, or wasn't registered as part of the mass registrations in 1990 to offset panic-fleeing from HK, she won't be able to registe...
rboon, you most likely do not have a "settlement visa". What you were issued with was a "spouse visa", which is something that leads to settlement after spending two years continuously in the UK in that category. The only people offered settlement visas based on marriage (until A...
You're entering dangerous waters here. Who's to say that Germany wouldn't do a background check. It's unlikely, but who knows. What's more worrisome is on the US side. While it might not be entirely the case, the US might refuse to issue you with or renew a passport given your outstanding warrants. ...
Ah, the joy of semantics! What I meant by "loophole" is the fact that one of the normal requirements of naturalisation is that the applicant be free of immigration control either on the day of application (if married to a UK citizen) or otherwise for a year. With what I've been describing,...
Just as a curiosity, it used to be that a person married to a UK citizen could apply for citizenship overseas provided that s/he met the residence requirement of three years without significant absences, passed the Life in the UK test and had only recently left the UK. The citizenship applicant did ...
If your wife can't pass the Life in the UK test or complete the ESOL class (with citizenship content), she'll have to apply for FLR(M) every two years, each time paying a new fee.
I find this to be a bit difficult to implement. According to the official response, average annual absences totalling 36 days or more (e.g., 180 in total) would trigger a SET(O) refusal. Any businessperson, or some foreign celebrities like Kevin Spacey or Gwenyth Paltrow, for instance, are bound to ...
Unless your friend is an invalid, incapacitated or indigent for truly exceptional reasons, there's very little chance of such an application succeeding. Do you have any additional information about why your friend can't provide for himself (i.e., get a job and make his own way) in his own country? S...
I agree completely with what you write. However, I'm not fully prepared to abdicate my role in the political process, as meaningless as it may ultimately be.
Just as a reminder, you can vent your spleen (constructively, perhaps!) by responding to the IND regarding the consultation documents for the "New regime for charging for immigration and nationality applications". To find the proper format for responding, please go to the following website...
The US government, as part of a treaty signed at the UN level, is opposed to the policy of creating statelessness in its citizens. As a result, someone in your position can only renounce his/her US citizenship overseas in front of a consular officer and only after providing proof that he/she possess...
Canada charges an application fee of CAD550 per adult applicant, and CAD150 for a dependent child PLUS a "Right of Permanent Residence" fee of CAD490 for every family member. Citizenship costs CAD200 for each adult, CAD100 for a child under 18. http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/applications/fe...
Thanks for your comments, Rogerio. In many ways this is a personal decision. Ultimately it has to be given the nature of this country's and most parliamentary-style democracies. Apart from writing to our MPs and attempting to influence them on the issue, there really is very little that we as small ...
My sources indicated to me that ILR would cost £1,000 under the new charging regime. Still a bargain price. Are you suggesting otherwise? I'm not sure it is, but I would imagine that that's a decision for each individual to make. A key point in one of the consulting documents concerns the relative ...
Whereas I don't have a crystal ball, it's unlikely that a concept of an "EU citizen" as you describe it will occur in the short to mid-term. Firstly, there is sizeable opposition within the EU to the creation of a super-state along the lines of the US. What you describe is very similar to ...
My mother is a US citizen with a Cert of Entitlement placed in her US passport. However, she is also a Canadian citizen who holds right of abode as a result of being a Commonwealth wife married to a UK husband with right of abode on 31 December 1982. She has it in her US passport because the validit...
Yes. If you naturalise, you may have a right of abode sticker placed in your original passport (like I think Rogerio did) in case you lose one passport or really don't care about getting a UK one. Some Commonwealth citizens who also hold a foreign passport (i.e., non-Commonwealth) can have their ROA...
