MJNair wrote: New ICT T2 visas issued after April 2010 are not eligible for settlement. So my guess is that it does not contribute to the overall 'migrant' scheme anymore.

Really good news to those local workers who are still losing their jobs to ICT competitors.

Ok - 1300 decrease in Tier 2 and a freeze at 5400 Tier 1 visas - it is still quite far from "moving migration from hundreds of thousands to tens of thousands" - how exactly they are going to do it without affecting ICT (which is now one of the main ways to bring non-EU workforce into the U...

iyanu wrote: He will be applying for his ILR in February 2009;

Is it me or it is already September 2009 now?

Dear All Yesterday i was caught in shop lifting offence situation and was awarded a fixed peanlty by police on recomondation of the shop. Now it is not intentional and geninue mistake and they are not ready to listen. My Question is would this fixed penalty will have any affects on my further immig...

My wife was in exactly the same situation - I called to immigration control in Heathrow and asked the same question - they confirmed that my wife still could travel and return back to the UK using her foreign passport.

I am completely confused - does that mean that you can get conviction without even being called to court??? I thought you at least needed a judge to be convicted?

Can anybody explain me - what the difference ID cards make comparing to the biometrical visa/leave to remain? Most (or probably all) employers do not have any special equipment to read data stored on the chip on the card - so for them it is nice printed piece of plastic against nice printed sticker ...

paulp wrote:
HMRC is no longer accepting temporary NI numbers.

So how exactly a new legal foreign employee can start working? In my case it took about 3 months to get NI number and my employer made an appointment for me before I even actually arrived to the country.

martha wrote:This does not entitle you to work, so how can you say you pay your taxes? You wouldnt legally have been issued a National Insurance number.

You can spend years working and paying taxes on a temporary NI number - it is one of those holes, which the Government has completely forgotten to close.

Biggie wrote:This is just a wind up!!!!!

Biggie.

Don't think so - his English looks very Russian to me.

It was no fault of your own and the HO will have to accomodate you as far as possible but I wonder if there is any wording of the Immigration Act that requires "admission to the UK for the purpose of wp employment". I believe that British visa is "enabled" automatically when you...

Hello Folks, I got one of other queries clarified in this forum. I hope to get this one too sorted out. I came to UK(Belfast, Northern Ireland) from Dublin. The border between Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland is not always immigration controlled. Unfortunately, the train that I boarded didn...

I have a friend who owns a restaurant and a shop. His friend who is here on a Visit visa for few weeks, was helping him rack some bottle of wines. Immigration people Raided the restaurant and took him away. My friend is really naive with all this and not sure what to do. Can any tell me what has he...

So what happened to the Common Travel Area agreement? Contrary to common knowledge, the CTA is only applicable to Irish and UK/Manx/Channel Island citizens. Everyone else (including EU/EEA , but technically a formality) must be able to meet criteria for entry. That's what I always thought - the CTA...

Hello, I was in UK with a visit visa and towards the end of my stay I went to visit my brother in Ireland. On my way back I was stopped at the airport in belfast ( I was flying straight back to London Heathrow to catch my flight back home). The officials asked a lot of questions, took my fingerprin...

... presumably the 'time' 1. There is at me a Russian citizenship if I never ever had received, and did not asked it. (except for the USSR)???? You got the citizenship automatically - you did not have to ask for it and the Home Office guys know about it. You also cannot give up your citizenship if ...

Hello to All! I Has arrived from USSR,has asked a refuge, as well,as another 99%-refusal. 8 of years under control HO.(I come on all interview, report every week..!, in police).I was a citizen of the USSR, now Russia does not accept me, as I not the citizen of Russia. The USSR ceased to exist 16.5 ...

I know that according to the guide the passport application form must be completed using black ink, but does anybody know from practical experience if UKPI really rejects form filled with blue ink? My wife needs to apply for her first passport and her referee filled his part on the form using blue i...

Do you really have to be not older than 32 years to apply for visa under PBS schema?

...wait for the Russian embassy to issue passport in its sweet time (and they will keep her passport while the application is being processed by the embassy here which means she can't travel anywhere either)- takes 2 weeks even then. Nope - they do not keep the old passport at all, but 2 weeks rule...

Without her original Russian passport her chances to get a new one in the Russian Embassy in London are ZERO. All they can do is to give her a special document which will allow her to return to Russia. On the other hand - if her parents have money and connections in Russia, they probably could try t...

Am I right - in spite of all these changes the visa nationals from the Commonwealth countries still will be able to vote and to be elected? No community work, English culture/language tests, paying taxes and being employed are required? :) Commonwealth nationals resident in the UK may vote in all e...

Am I right - in spite of all these changes the visa nationals from the Commonwealth countries still will be able to vote and to be elected? No community work, English culture/language tests, paying taxes and being employed are required?

2. PR (ILR) looks like would now be replaced by probationary citizenship and would directly lead to applying for full citizenship. Hope this helps. and what about people who only want PR and do NOT want any kind of the British citizenship? I still do not understand - why working and paying taxes is...

thirdwave wrote:Could this mean that there might be a probation period after 5 years on WP/HSMP before ILR?

Is not ILR itself "probational" enough? As I understand it can be revoked quite easily.

And I am wondering how forced comminity work will help "combatting the threat from extremism".