It's a big bullshit. Just to get a clearance (needed to to work with children) you need to wait four months.

No, You cannot aggregate the two categories unless you move to HSMP status (even for a very short period).

If those expenses were taxable then they should count.

The UK legal market is saturated. I am a solicitor and I know what I am talking about.

Don't worry! Your full immigration history is on INDs computer.

You can set up your consultancy in the UK with an HSMP visa. You can live and work in Cayman but this will invalidate your HSMP status as one of its conditions is that you intend to make the UK your home. You can set up a Cayman structue for giving advice in the UK, but: 1. All the income relating t...

Yes, your husband can join you on a student dependent visa. If the expected duration of your studies is longer than 12 months your husband will given a code 1 visa which will enable him to work free from restrictions.

If your child is born in the UK and you afterwards obtain an ILR you will be able to register your child as a UK citizen. If you obtain an ILR before your baby is born your child will automatically be a UK citizen by birth.

I assume you want to support an HSMP application. Since you have to prove that you will have no recourse to public funds, you have to show that proceeds from sale of these properties will be readily avalible to you in the UK with short notice. You have to bring evidence (maybe from estate agents) sh...

Work permits already cost more than £200 (WP + LTR (IED)).

You can still send certified copies (certified by solicitor or public notary) to support your naturalisation application.

This is not true unless you are from Bulgaria or Romania.

Dependent parents visas can be sponsored by individuals who are present and settled (ILR) in the UK. As you are not yet holding an ILR status you can only ask the same outside the rules in very exceptional compassionate reasons (if at all). It is better for you to wait until you hold an ILR status a...

Raikal,

How long it took the IND to reply to you?

No, as long as they are subject to immigration control and are not from Turkey, Morocco, Tunisia and the new EU accession countries.

Contact NARIC to get the UK equivalent.

http://www.naric.co.uk/

Brick layers (or any other layers) don't need any particular qualifications in the UK.

HSMP is meant to be a Rolls Royce immigration category hence the favourable treatment. The only way to amalgamate WP + Dependent status towards ILR is to apply outside the rules. In these turbulent days at the IND it is highly unlikely that such an application will be considered outside the rules.

I don't think that she is the one to blame. UK Immigration system has become too complicated to administer. There are too many categories, too much discretion for "outside the rules" consideration and too much red-tape. I thing that for the time being IND will be much harsher in considerin...

The only advantages with WP are:

1. WP is cheaper than HSMP (in most WP applications there is no need to extend whilst HSMP status must be extended after one year= extra costs). In most occasions employers bear the costs of WP.

2. Less paperwork to do.

Strictly speaking, mere bi-annual trips to the UK will not be sufficient to maintain your ILR status. You have to convince the IO that you intend to settle in the UK.

Are you applying for citizenship or for ancestry visa?

Under existing Immigration law there is still no charge (and no charging power) for transferring LTR /LTE stamps to new travel documents. The charging power will apply once the new immigration bill receives royal assent.

I think that they changed the procedure because of a legal problem- the candidate is the one who should apply for FLR not the employer.

Also my posting name somehow reverted to my login name.

Apart from that - an excellent job!