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Your best and quickest option would be to return home and apply for a spouse visa.blueorchids007 wrote:Anyway, I've kept my head low and carried on with life (knowing the risk involved), hoping to use the 14 year rule. Unfortunately, that goalpost got shifted before my 14th year. Got married legally 2 years ago to a British born/citizen and we live together, no child at the moment (still trying). We meet all spousal requirements (wife is a senior accountant and earns more than £50000, I am a network/IT technician and I've worked in the same establishment for 13 years, we've got mortgage, and no criminal convictions, etc). The crux of the matter is that I do not want to go back to my home country and apply from there (I haven't been back since I left), and I don't know whether I can apply via the right to remain based on family life route either. Lastly, I have not once tried to regularise my stay with the HO, so I'm virtually non-existent and a persona non grata. Your advice will be greatly appreciated. Have a happy new year.
If you really can't bite the bullet & return 'home' then a European sojourn to a.n.other EU country (with your wife) for 3 - 6 months could solve all your problems.blueorchids007 wrote:I didn't do anything dodgy in all my applications. I guessed I just slipped through the cracks. I sent my passport to DVLA and got a driving licence. Same with my NI. I've paid taxes and NI contribution for 13 years. I've hardly had need of the NHS since I've been here (Ibuprofen and co help for the niggling aches and pains). I've relatively lived a quiet life with no incidents whatsoever. I was thinking I should qualify for 'right to private life', but seems like your best advice is I go back to a country I've not been back to in 15 years, and all my family/siblings are based here. Confused is an understatement on how I feel about my situation. Maybe I should see a lawyer.
Be aware (& as just advised by CR001) Surinder Singh is not a magic bullet for all life's (migration) ills.blueorchids007 wrote:Wow! So much information! I guess when one hides under a rock, the whole world just passes by. Just reading on the Surinder Singh route gives me some hope on options available. Thanks!
I was reading grounds for refusal here https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration ... or-refusal and the section 7B (iii)CR001 wrote:Where does it say you have to wait 12 months? Please provide the link to the source of this.
"(7B) where the applicant has previously breached the UK’s immigration laws (and was 18 or over at the time of his most recent breach)by:CR001 wrote:So where does it say you have to wait 12 months after leaving the UK before you can apply for a spouse visa?