Hi,

If my wife has a UK spouse/marriage visa (2 year visa), and I am a British citizen, can my wife travel with me to EEA countries without a visa?

Cheers basis. The issue i am talking about here is this: If we get the British passport for the child, what is the status of the child (visa / immigration status in India) for the time period between getting the british passport and finally getting the visa stamped in the british pasport (or getting...

Cheers, OK i will speak to an Indian mission and update you guys as to what i hear from them.

Ta!

"I have re-read your post ... and no you don't actually say that. You say she has a settlement visa but I am not going to assume that she is married to you. Hence the question. I am certainly not going to wade back through your previous 500 posts to get the answer. " That is a little harsh...

Yes, Myself am my wife are married to each other :-) certainly. (But how come this question came up - i am sure without having legally married, no spouse can get a UK settlement visa, and i have certainly indicated in my post that my wife holds a UK settlement visa as my wife! :-)) "you need to...

Hi All, A quick question. If a british citizen's (naturalised citizen) child is born outside the UK (in India) then i know the child is automatically British. Now what options exist for the new born: 1. Straight-away apply for the British passpot (in India) from UK mission by getting a British style...

Hi Guys, This weekend i will be travelling to Europe for the first time as a British citizen. I am booking a ticket to Copenhagon :-) Really exiting stuff - since i will travelling to Europe with my British passport. Wondering what the immigration will be like! :-):-) Will keep you all informed once...

Cheers to All. Just to summarise my answers to various questions raised on me here: 1. I have no intentions to mis-represent indian citizenship. All i want to do is to take it ot India once and show it off to my family, just as a souvenir. I have my british passport and have my PIO card to go to Ind...

Hi All, I am a British citizen and I hold a PIO card (Person of Indian Origin card - its like a "green card" to travel to India). This is the first time (after my recent naturalisation as British citizen) i am going to travel to India and i want to take with me my cancelled Indian passport...

Yep, i agree - some answers were not really what i was expecting to hear - Ha Ha! :-):-) Anyway, my point is this travel for 3-4 months and i will have to either arrange for our parents to be here at that time or i will have to see what i can do to completely stop my travel plans - i will need to di...

"I sense you are already taking umbrage at the IND based on some hypothetical scenarios" No. That was an hypothetical answer for an hypothetical scenario. But, I agree with the IND stand-point. But i have to see what i can do to do away with upcoming business travel for 3-4 months. That is...

It really makes me laugh to realise that my wife leaving for a few months to India to deliver a baby (which is our combined personal descion) looks like a complex immigration issue .

Anyway... thanks for all the answers

Ta!

regards.

Cheers. Thanks for all those answers. Frankly, I think a potential ILR cannot determine our decisions to whether have the baby here in the UK or elsewhere - its a personal decision and i would not let anybody come into that, so i am least interested in the ILR for my wife - if they think that the ma...

Thanks for those points. But main question in this thread is all about these: My questions are these: 1. If she flies to India around January 1st week and then returns to the UK around September 2006, will she be able to get her ILR in April 2007. She would have been outside the UK - only to take ca...

Hi, I got my british citizenship by naturalisation recenlty. I am sure my child will get british citizenship even if he/she is born in India. My question is about my wife's ILR, in case she spends about 9 months in India and comes back to UK and applies for ILR in 2007 when her spouse visa / settlem...

All - We are also discussing with our parents to see if they can manage to come over here around delivery time and the time when I am touring around... so its quite possible that they could be here and consequently we will end up having her delivery here in the UK. Just wanted to know what you guys ...

Hi All, I am now a British citizen and my wife is here on a settlement visa (marraige visa). She is pregnant now - 13 weeks :-) She has been here in the UK since this April 2005 and her settlement visa is untill April 2007. I have to go the USA for about 3-4 months on business visit ( i have been do...

Yes, Joseph - that is correct! The ceremony date and the date of citizenship was all the same. I am not sure about the certificate number though - i will have to check through my xerox copy of the old certificate and see what it is vis-a-vis the new one. May be they are same - like you said. Ta! reg...

Cheers Joseph. Yep. That is correct. But I added the relevant pages of my Citizenship application and fee reciept page as well - because these had my coorect place of birth and i just included a xerox copy (whichi had taken when submitting my application) of these pages as well to prove my point tha...

Oops! Joseph! I really wished I was the last one that suffered that spelling mistake! Anyway... This is what I did to get the correction done ASAP, otherwise it would normally take anywhere up to 3 months. 1. Attend the ceremony and take the certificate. 2. Come home and write a brief letter describ...

Cheers John. I now think that the 3 month prior to birth and the 3 months afterwards - in all 6 months stay in India will be good. Although I said she thinks she need to be India for all of the pregnancy period, she is also talking about being in the UK with me all through - so i guess its a sort of...

Cheers Chess. Actually - it's my wife's idea to have the delivery in India, and since during her pregnancy I will have to fulfill all her wishes :-):-), the indian visit is going to be one of them :-) Ha! :-) Also there is one main advantage in it - she will have all of our relatives around her to t...

Hi All, First off, a very good news - my wife is now pregnant! :-) Now, my quick questions: 1. If my wife wants to go to India (after a few months from now) for managing the pregnancy and finally to deliver our baby in India - it will be about 10-12 months that she would have been out of UK. Would h...

Hi I applied in person in Birmingham consulate. They took the photocopies all originals (British and Indian passport) and the originals as well. They said i could come and collect my British passport in a couple of days but that they would only return the cancelled indian passport along with my PIO ...

Hi All, I don't know about OIC procedures, but i had applied for PIO card in August and I got my PIO card in 3 weeks time plus my cancelled Indian passport and my current British passport. I had added a covering letter to my applicationj specifically requestiing my cancelled Indian passport to be re...