Forgot to mention that if born in Northern Ireland and adopt children then will have option to register the Adoption with the Irish international adoption agency which will give the kids the right to Irish Passports which is backup if have problems with HMPO and British passports - I had that route ...
If you are going down the adoption route then need to think about where you will do. Doing adoption in UK will give them instant British citizenship once approved in UK court so end of the visa route for them at that point. Won't necessarily be recognised in home country and there are potential prob...
OP didnt post all details of the mother's status but he did say that son was born before 2006 (1998). Rules changed in 2006 to cover citizenship from father when unmarried. As such think he is covered under section below. That said the devil is in the detail so may be some point not aware of such as...
Worth having a read of guidance in link below as may provide an alternative solution. Reading your post sounds like eligible to go down that route. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/form-ukf-guidance/form-ukf-guidance-accessible-version Example George was born in the USA in 1969. His father...
https://www.gov.uk/family-permit/apply-retained-right-of-residence I believe that is the relevant guidance and based on details you provided it sounds like he would have retained rights to apply for settled status. Kids in UK would also give additional rights to stay. Reading guidance key issue I be...
As secret simon has said there is need to apply to the EU setlement scheme. When your child arrived in 2018 as a non-eu passport holder needed some form of approval to move which in this case was the EU family permit. Childs mother probably applied to the EU settlement scheme to make this easier. Te...
If baby has irish citizenship will not need to go through appendix FM as should be covered under common travel area rights which pre date EU. Will need the irish passport for entry or some form of temporary visa for entry if using foreign passport. If you are an Irish citizen living in UK before 202...
Two options that I can think off to generate some form of response are: 1. Raise a complaint https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration/about/complaints-procedure 2. Write to the MP for the area you live in and ask them to query why not returned and where the passports are....
My view is they are particularly bad at responding. Wife applied for citizenship from abroad and any requests for confirmation of document receipt were never answered. I think that they take the line that only get an answer if applying from within the UK. Also wont get any updates within the six mon...
Asking on behalf of a friend. She had been in UK on visitor visa (for about 6 months) and went back to the Philippines to apply for fiance visa (believe but need to confirm less than 6 months out of UK) which got and then came to UK about May-19, got married in (and then got spouse visa). Unfortunat...
Wife applied on 9th June and got settled status letter on 24th July so about 7 weeks in her case. She is non-eu/eea. Our circumstances are bit more complicated than most so not sure if that may have taken longer to process.
EU step parent can sponsor step children. I was sponsor for at the time my stepchildren. Our situation was different in that wife and children were already in UK and we had gone through the spouse and dependents route already and had achieved sole responsibility requirement. We were switching to EU ...
Looking at evidence for continuous residence and non-eu wife does not have NI record. Can we use passport as has relatively little time out of UK and has stamps arriving and leaving Philippines and stamps into UK ? Reduces some of the challenges on evidence for every month. Understand that passport ...
As never got any responses and have now found out the answers I though might be worth detailing it in case anyone else is searching for answers on adoptions and registering on the Register of Intercountry adoptions. I was living in UK and adopted Step Children in UK and was the only Irish Parent. Se...
Does anyone have experience of how long it takes from sending in an application to register an intercountry adoption to it being put on the register. Specifically interested in scenario where living in UK (not northern ireland) and adopted step children in UK. Also what date is recorded on the certi...
Can only speak from experience of being a relevant person of Northern Ireland with two step children, both under 18. Both were also non-EU nationals. Both of step children qualified for EU settlement scheme with one getting pre settled status and the other settled status. They were already in the UK...
As spouse has renounced British citizenship then I believe you would have freedom to choose either. If not done then relevant person of Northern Ireland would have been only option. Personally I would go with relevant person of Northern Ireland as easier to understand status and not changed by renou...
My personal experience with EU settlement scheme is if they need something they will ask for it rather than just reject the application. Seemed to do a quick check and if missing stuff (in my wife's case a number of documents did not load up)send email asking for missing info.
Was end of 2017 and think took about three weeks. Meant had visa significantly in advance of planned travel date. We had a fairly comprehensive pack covering most of requirements for settlement visa as well as marriage visit visa as that route was one of options considering and ended up going down t...
Can give you our experience of getting a marriage visit visa. My wife required a visa visit to visit the UK unlike US visitors who can basically jump on a plane so hurdle was somewhat higher for us. In terms of registry office I emailed the registry office to ask about the process as there are limit...
If you are here on appendix FM then you are issued with a BRP. Back in August could use the BRP to apply using the app. After getting settled status and applying using the app and BRP my wife got a five year duration BRC as part of process. Not a lot of difference between the two apart from one say...
The electronic status itself is enough for her to remain legally in the UK. So strictly speaking that could be the end of it. BUT if she wants to travel abroad or prove her right to work or right to rent, then she might want to get a new biometric card. If she applies for status with the app using ...
I'm a relevant person of Northern Ireland and as a result my wife qualified for EU settlement scheme. She was on the first of the settlement visas. She got a five year visa. As I understand it she can apply for settled status at the five years in country point so time on settlement visa should count...
Next step in process is biometrics. When applying there wasnt any appointments but note to say that they were prioritising new applications and looking at reusing previous biometric data and new app. Just got email to say cant reuse and have to do biometric appointment which is now booked for end of...
