I couldn't help imagine a new situation ( probability of happening is very low ?). Say you become a probabtionary citizen in UK, your home country considers this as having obtained UK citizenship, revokes your passport and then after x years you find out that UK has asked you to pack your bags beca...

Of couse you can visit the UK before you decide to settle down.

But you still need to register within 7 days upon arrival no matter you are coming for a visit or a long term plan.

That's what I did

Thanks diamella. First hand experience always inspires more confidence. Also, can my wife enter the uk without me for the first time, if she lands a job earlier and needs to join before I am relieved from my current assignment? Please guide. I entered the UK by myself for the first time and the lad...

Don't worry. I am on a HSMP dependant VISA and it is exactly the same case as yours, and my maiden name is on the passport.

I have had the visa for more than 1 years and travelled in and out of the UK several times, either alone or with my husband.