This is just a piece of cake compared to the new changes that will apply to settlement. As I wrote in this forum eight months ago many migrants currently on WP / HSMP would not qualify for settlement.

RobinLondon,

I don't think the Home Office bothers to much about social cohesion etc. They just see legal immigrants as lucrative cash cows always available to be milked.

My sources indicated to me that ILR would cost £1,000 under the new charging regime.

That's quite a pretty old staff .

Yes, failed asylum seekers are usually administratively removed from the UK. Deportation order are more complicated to handle that admin removals.

You can legitimately ask your employer to address the letter to a financial institution. Later when you send the letter to the Home Office note to them that this is because you don't want your employer to suspect that you intend to resign.

Yes provided your combined 10 year stay was continuous.

Why is that question? Do you intend to falsify your tax return?

John,

This will not affect nurses already in UK jobs. Like any other tier 2 WP applications there is no need to conduct resident labour search when moving between similar jobs.

As far as I can remember Charles Clarke was sacked sometime ago.

You have no right to appeal a rejection of a tourist visa. The only way to amend this is to start an expensive judicial review process or to get out of the UK and seek a new entry clearance. If your relatioship with your GF is solid you may consider marriage of fiance visas.

These illegals already get all the welfare they want. Don't forget that whilst legal migrants have to pay a small fortune just to extend their stay, the illegals can invest the money they save towards buying EU passports and then just pose as EU citizens. That is why there are no more asylum seekers...

Granting 5 year WPs has been a standard practice since 2001 as long as your employer had requested that and he was established enough.

The idea was to allow some more time for WP applicants to make arrangments for travel and visa.

As a leading immigration lawyer told me, it is not by accident that the 4-5 year change is coincided with the new point based system. The aim is to reduce the number of economic migrants qualifying for settlement so as to pick and choose only the ones who will bring substantial contribution to the UK.

IMHV "Resident" means someone who has made the UK his home even if that was only for a short and temporary period (like short time students). I don't really think that a tourist can be considered as having resided in the UK. At the end of the day residence is required to satisfy the rules....

I am not too sure whether a stay as a tourist counts as "residence" in the UK or not.

There will be no amnesty as Labour will suffer a tremendous fall in the polls if this is implemented. This is issue is very politically sensitive.

http://society.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,,1797866,00.html Basically, the government has flooded the medical job market with almost double new medical students and now they have nothing to do with them. The government has spent some £237,000 on each and every medical student. This will now go dow...

I cannot really sea how can he regularise his stay from within the UK. In any case he is blacklisted on the UK immigration system as he applied for extension after his visa expired.

Bankers draft might cost you even more. Better ask a friend of yours with a credit card or a UK current account to pay on your behalf and you would pay him back.

I would not be too concerned. HMRC have your correct gender details.

These guys have risked their life for the UK. They should have qualified earlier than 4 years.

Nothing new, Income Support was always unclaimable by people who had "No recourse to Public Funds" condition of stay. What they added is just a formal sponsor's undertaking which in any case should have been taken at the Entry Clearance stage.

What was the basis of the refusal?

Did he appeal? If yes, what was the outcome of the appeal?

This subject is utterly not meant to be dearly beloved in any way. It just aims to show that whilst the UK targets its legitimate hardworking migrants it ignores the real problem of illegal migration. It also shows that in the UK it is more worthwhile to be an illegal immigrant rather than a legal o...