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Landing Cards for ILR holders

Post by simmo » Sun Aug 07, 2011 3:08 pm

Hi all

Me and the Mrs returned from a very nice holiday abroad yesterday. It was the first time she has entered on her shiny new ILR and I was a little surprised that she still had to complete a landing card.

Does anyone know the rationale behind this? Seems a little bit of a bureaucratic waste of time - especially in this age of austerity and cutbacks - given that my wife is well and truly on HO records and now has no immigration restrictions/time limit on her residence here...

Still, citizenship next year then this will become a thing of the past. Just wondered what people's thoughts on this were, however...
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Post by Casa » Sun Aug 07, 2011 4:06 pm

Anyone without British Nationality has to complete a landing card.
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Post by simmo » Sun Aug 07, 2011 5:24 pm

Casa wrote:Anyone without British Nationality has to complete a landing card.
Not strictly true.

EU/EEA nationals and Commonwealth Citizens with RoA are exempt from the landing card requirement. My thoughts are that such an exemption could be extended to ILR holders.
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Post by PaperPusher » Sun Aug 07, 2011 5:29 pm

Someone can lose ILR despite what the stamp in their passport says. There is a big difference between ILR and ROA/EU/EEA citizenship.
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Post by Directive/2004/38/EC » Sun Aug 07, 2011 6:13 pm

non-EEA family members of EEA citizens also do not need to complete a landing card if they have either a EEA Family Permit, a Residence Card or a Permanent Residence Card.

And as previously mentioned, neither do EEA citizens.
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Post by simmo » Sun Aug 07, 2011 7:06 pm

Directive/2004/38/EC wrote:non-EEA family members of EEA citizens also do not need to complete a landing card if they have either a EEA Family Permit, a Residence Card or a Permanent Residence Card.

And as previously mentioned, neither do EEA citizens.
Exactly...and ILR offers a status that is more permenant than at least the first two you mention.
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