It makes sense to come when one of you got a UK assignment in hand and the other comes as a dependent. Basically, that way you would be able to finance your stay & expenses (very expensive if it is London) while the other look for a job ( as an HSMP or dependent) . Re: experience, while UK exper...

In UK, your first bank account opening is considered to be high barrier to jump due to various money laundering and fraud prevention checks, measures in place. It would be easy if: a) You have an employment and employers letter of authorisation and request, preferably addressed to their own bank whe...

Agreed - it will be stupid to think that the system will run at 100% efficiency. This is what the government is planning, or atleast what it appears to be a of late reality check from their side. I think it's naive to think that stricter enforcement of illegal working in the UK would prevent even a ...

Right, but the percentage of people who will resort to the below will be far less when compared to those who would plan to leave the country for good reasons. More over, this would ring a bell to all those future immigrants contemplating on illegal stay, follow and model as predecessors by the tried...

Thats right. End of the day, Govt sees the effectivness of these measures as another cash cow feeding itself into the treasury. That is when the employers pay tax & NI legit for their employees/staff rather than employing someone illegally as a 'cash in hand' employee and writing it off as opera...

Good to see that there are new measures in place. my grouse isn't about which businesses are targeted but it's about which businesses are affected. My HR staff are no experts at telling a forged British passport from a real one - let alone Italian or Romanian. Reading all this BS about making it eas...

Hai, I am working in a company from last one yr on their work permit. last week i have applied HSMP, i think somehow my company got suspicious about my HSMP, they have asked me indirectly, what is your status of working in UK. I am in confusion please advise me what do on following things: 1.If the...

Does that mean professionals practicing in those 'poorly' paid areas really got to try hard to get some wealthy clients to increase their margins ?

avjones wrote:
You've not looked hard, then - some areas of law are pretty poorly paid, such as family, crime, immigration, etc.

well said ! a point there for the whole immigrant student community's welfare.

VictoriaS wrote:Where have the courts said that someone on a student visa who stops attending their course but remains in the UK on their student visa is not acting in breach of their visa?

Victoria

You mean to say, that is why we have a govt here "unknowingly" spending billions of tax payers money which includes NHS "supporting" extended community care to those zillion overstayers wishing to remain in "coma", a state created by none other than themselves ? I think...

Folks, These are definitions from information commissioners dictionary. Not sure whether Home Office website contents have undergone the audit or scrutiny relevant to this discussion... Must Where the word 'must' is used, we mean that there is a specific legal or regulatory requirement affecting con...

I can now guess the contempt, when you resort to pointing out language skills rather than making an attempt to discuss. Fair enough. And Oh yes! I'm a born literate with a Ph.d in English, so kindly excuse :-) and Cheer up. This is my theory, as long as overstaying is not a legal right: A human bein...

What people fail to realise is that overstayers are humans! For god sake! Not all overstayers intentionally do so to then marry to then get there visa’s what’s sense would there be in that? Again, I can only sympathise with you sally12345 and I sincerely wish you would be able to sort out your ...

Now a days it is very difficult to get a legit job for an overstayer, where the employer paying tax and NI.

paulp wrote: I'm sure many overstayers pay their taxes. But there are also a lot of overstayers in the black economy who don't pay taxes.

Once again, I suggest you read my post over again, may be you did not understand what I meant by "soul traders" You trying to generalise my comments where there could be even a criminal aspect in abusing immigration system. My comments are not aimed one section or at a separate section or ...

Ok, I know for sure that my post will be taken in an all negative bashing aspect, but one basic question, and please do not take this is an "attitude" question. A spouse needs a visa, simple - he or she could have got "attempted" to get that while his/her stay here was legal. OK,...

I will be really surprised to know if there is anyone out there overstayed without knowing his/her had visa expired It happens to people all the time - from s*x slaves to cockle pickers to widows of soldiers to minor children of failed asylum seekers to people working in embassies whose government ...

I agree. Overstaying used to be considered as a trivial matter especially with young immigrants below 30 and the HO/BIA had a very laidback attitude in tackling them. I think the situation is changing and of lately, there is a sense of urgency. I will be really surprised to know if there is anyone o...

What exactly you mean by help. If you charge money or get paid for any 'helps', then that becomes a service- taxable in the UK. Saving UK tax by registering offshore entities is a complicated affair, and proceed with caution. On the other hand, if you simply planning to provide services within UK th...

No institution will brand someone as a "criminal" if he/she doesn't notify the home country. Hypothetically, lets assume that you lived in the UK for 10 years got arrested and ended up in jail in a country where it is categorised as an offence to carry and use the old passport, then your d...

The process is invisible to any work permit holder. Companies get sold or taken over in n-different ways and their in house staffs or advisors will be handling this. Home Office does not impose any special work permit transfer rules on company take over, merger or sale situations unless it is legall...

This is what used to happen in old days. "Stamp" the date when you arrive, making it all the 180 days - for multiple entry. They used to do single entry visit visas earlier (prior to 2000), but now a days, as far as I'm aware it is only issued for transit visitor passengers (48 or 72 hrs) ...

Generally speaking, dependent visa appointments are silent both ways; No questions or no frills, no special advice needed from any immigration consultants with Phd degree, only IF : - right documents are submitted (dependents partner's financial, income history, residence and accomodation documents ...

180 day stay restriction applies only from the start date printed in the visa, not the issue date. Even if the start date and issue date are same, as long as air tickets are confirmed nothing stops a person from boarding the plane straight after collecting the visa and that makes the stay technicall...

skills=mangement techniques ; is that what you meant .. otherwise what other "skills" you would expect in Project manager? MS Office or Sharepoint use etc and average computer skills sufficient enough as far I see it. Of course any person with good learning capability will gather specific ...