Hi Can someone please tell me once my I.L.R has been granted what my next option is? i am not sure of citizenship or naturalization? i am an american citizen and don't wish to give up my passport but i have an ill father in the U.S.A and was wanting to go and visit him after my I.L.R has been grante...
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Can someone please tell me after you have received your I.L.R which mine was on set M, how long can do you have to wait before you can claim any public funds as i will be wanting to claim carers allowance? thanks
Hi All :) Thank you so much for your help on this site, we wrote to the Border Agency, and waited 10 days and got a reply from the same case officer who did the decision, and he says it looks like a error with our computer has sent out the wrong date for your F.L.M and it should have been processed ...
Hi Thank you for your reply, we have written today to the U.K.B.A as we cannot appeal as they didnt refuse the application, there telephone bureau advised to re-send the whole folder back with a covering letter explaining why we feel they have made an error and then to wait and see if the decision c...
Hi Partner came on 24 july 2012, but they applied for the visa on 05/04/12 and entry to come to the u.k was on or after 01/07/12, its all a bit confusing to me, does anyone know if the U.K.B.A have reached the correct decision when they granted a five year visa, saying you have to re-apply after two...
Hi All Partner applied for a P.C.P visa back in first week of April 2012,and this was granted in June 2012 being given a six month visa, came here in July 2012, and got our partnership in August 2012, applied for the FLR in September 2012, it has just been done :P and has been granted :D , thank God...
No, i didnt read the rules, i read them first time round and there shocking to be honest, this Government are stopping loved ones from being together, and reading about there changes and even hearing them is heartbreaking for many people. as lots dont earn anything near the amount there changing to
Hi all Now i am going to ask just in case, i know today 9th July the new rules have come into force, can i please ask has anything been revised or changed since the new rules were due to come into force, i know the Governement can say what they wish to do but until the changes come into force (which...
Hi just wanted to ask if anyone knows, i get Income support for being disabled and paid with them are three disability premiums, i will lose one of them when partner comes to live with me, but i was told that even if i have a partner subject to immigration control i will have claim the couples premi...
The one "benefit" that you are not be entitled to when you are living with your partner is the "single occupancy council tax discount" that one gets when living alone so how do i need to go about this please? do i still need to say i wish to claim as a couple then? if partner has...
Hi Thank you, i will contact my local wefare rights for there advice, this last piece they said Housing benefit for couples where one has limited leave/Marriage visa. A member of a couple who has limited leave (and so who would be ineligible for HB/CTB if they were single) but whose partner is eligi...
Hi OMG :shock: , that's a big relief to me :wink: , you really have just taken about 20 years off me when you said i can still claim i thought i could not get anything at all, do you know how much i am likley to have to pay? for example like 25%? i just wonder if there is a rulling on the amount etc...
So it's just one person i mean they as in one person, its just me not thinking how to type right as i'm in a bit of a mess right now with worry sorry, one person from the U.S.A, here on a marriage visa, and im just about to fill in housing council tax benefit forms telling them of my change and now ...
Hi There from the U.S.A, american, its just i get full housing and council tax benefit right now and i wish to know where i stand when they arrive, i know i have to inform them the council but will i lose any benefit(s), i am really sick with worry here so much that today has been one of my lowest d...
Hi Having problems trying to claim housing and council tax benefit, i have explained that my partner is here for a marriage visa, now there saying the following Housing benefit for couples where one has limited leave/Marriage visa. A member of a couple who has limited leave (and so who would be inel...
GURU, i hear you but i have NOT asked this question before because i have just NOW heard it on the B.B.C parliament channel where they were asking the Home office minister a series of questions on the new rules, if i had known the answer i would NOT have asked the question here, maybe you dont have ...
Hi :) I have just heard that if you got a P.C.P visa issued before the 9th July, but you dont enter the U.K before the 9th July the old rules right throught to I.L.R will not apply? just wonering, if this is true, and should my partner come before the 9th July as they were palnning of coming just af...
I'm Not sure either to be honest, i am going to be in the same boat as you very soon, what i have been advised is to contact community legal aid who can offer advise or welfare rights service, where i live welfare rights are run by the local council and they are great for offering advice and knowing...
Hi can you please advise if someone is applying for I.L.R and there partner is disabled and getting benefits due to there illness (income siupport and D.L.A)and they get enough to support them both and partners family send money each month around £120 pounds, and the partner is taking care of the ot...
things make me panic when i dont get an answer