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you get this a lot with the home office, the top level of publicity and spin rarely matches the actual rules, or in this case what liam byrne calls 'custom and practice'
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Appears to be for senior care workers only.starman wrote:y'all DO know that you can still apply for leave to remain if you've overstayed for less than 6 months, right??
I agree. This is a poorly publicised and administered transitional protection for care workers. It certainly doesn't mean protection for the common or garden variety overstayer.vinny wrote:Appears to be for senior care workers only.starman wrote:y'all DO know that you can still apply for leave to remain if you've overstayed for less than 6 months, right??
And what were the reasons given for refusing them?yankeegirl wrote:Did they leave before March 17?everyone i know who is back home been refuse them visa and they left voluntary.
Yeah but is that a rule though? So if they try to refuse you on overstaying only you say - you know the rules there is a concession you can't refuse me on overstaying. Or is it just going to be up to the discretion of the immigration officer? In which case some malicious officer who thinks Britain is full will try to block your re-entry concession or not.Frontier Mole wrote:The "amnesty" word. (Shiver...)
It is not an amnesty, it is a time limited concession given to returning overstayers. Those that take the opportunity to return home before 1st October 2008 will not be subject to the automatic mandatory refusal (ban).
It certainly doesn't mean protection for the common or garden variety overstayer.[/quote]William Blake wrote:
I just wondered in light of that definition is someone whose leave has lapsed and awaiting a reconsideration considered to be an overstayer?Since they have asked for their leave to be extended?vinny wrote:Hernancortes wrote:"Lawbreakers should not be allowed to benefit from their crime."
Hate to be the pedant but, what crime?Overstayers wrote:1. An overstayer is a person who was granted limited leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom, but who neither left the country on the date indicated nor asked for the leave to be extended.
2. Overstaying is an offence, contrary to s.24(1)(b)(i) of the Immigration Act 1971. Section 24(1A) of the 1971 Act, which was inserted by s.6(1) of the Immigration Act 1988, provides that a person commits the offence on the day when he or she first knows that leave to enter or remain has expired, and continues to commit it until such time as his or her position is regularised, for example through a further grant of leave.