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yes the fees are higher but then you (and all of us) have made choices to come to this country and we have to pay whatever it takes to stay or go back home.CMAL11 wrote:I can't help but feel its a whole money making racket, legal extortion if you will.
It's unfair that honest tax paying immigrants like my wife have to foot the bill for funding the UK border agency to deal with unlawful immigration.
What would happen if we couldn't pay the visa due to hardship? We have a son together, would the UK border agency deport my wife and break up a family?
What about the money it costs them to process your wife's application? The fee pays for this not for 'unlawful immigration'CMAL11 wrote:.
It's unfair that honest tax paying immigrants like my wife have to foot the bill for funding the UK border agency to deal with unlawful immigration.
What would happen if we couldn't pay the visa due to hardship? We have a son together, would the UK border agency deport my wife and break up a family?
We tried to but for some reason they felt she didn't have enough proof to show that she had established a life in those 2 years.Greenie wrote:Yes but why did she apply for the further two years (the BRP) why didn't she apply for settlement at that stage?
Thanks Greenie,Greenie wrote:If you had gone through a solicitor they would have advised you that you can't apply for naturalisation if you are not settled (i.e. have Indefinite Leave to Remain/Enter or Permanant Residence) in the UK. If you read the form and the guidance it makes this very clear.
I would suggest that you make a complaint about Migrant Expert UK to the OISC if they gave you incorrect advice.
If you wife has completed her two years probationary period and meets the language requirements then yes she should now apply for settlement as advised by sushdmetha.
No never heard of it.CMAL11 wrote:Just a quick update,
My wife sought legal advice from a solicitor who specialised in immigration here in the UK. He is confident he can claim this £700 fee which we lost in my wife's previous visa application, or at best have them use that £700 we paid and then adding a further £200 to make up £900 for the new ILR visa.
He says that the UKBA can create as many rules as they like but they still have to answer to basic human rights, and if the lost £700 is preventing my wife from getting her new visa due to financial hardship then he can do something about that.
Anybody else heard of this before?
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