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Settlement visas for dependent relatives

Webmaster — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:09:55 +0000

Foreignersinuk – It is not a new visa category, as other international media have said, but it nonetheless might come to you as a surprise: the British government will allow you to enter the UK and even settle there if you prove you are financially dependent on the income of your relative settled there. Even the more so if they have become British citizens in the meantime.

Let’s run through the UKBA rules.

You can apply for a settlement visa as a dependent relative if you are related to a person present and settled in the United Kingdom in one of the following ways:

Route to settlement for Refugees

Webmaster — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:03:41 +0000

UKBA – The UK Border Agency has announced that refugees and migrants with humanitarian protection in the UK will be allowed to apply for settlement and British citizenship under the current rules if their initial five-year permission to stay here will end between August 2010 and the date when the new system of ‘earned citizenship’ comes into force (scheduled for July 2011).

If you were granted refugee status or humanitarian protection between August 2005 and July 2006, and your initial five-year permission to stay will expire before earned citizenship comes into force, you will still be able to apply for settlement (also known as ‘indefinite leave to remain’). You will be expected to apply no more than 28 days before your initial permission to stay expires.

Why can’t I Claim British Citizenship?

Webmaster — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:03:46 +0000

By Emma Norton

The Guardian – ukccen was born abroad to an unmarried British father, and so cannot apply for a British passport. Is this discriminatory?

ukccen asks:

I was born outside the UK to an unmarried British father. As of 13 January 2010, all children born to a British parent will have the right to apply for a British passport, except those who fall under my category. Adult children of unmarried British fathers born before 1 July 2006 are the only group of children being discriminated against in terms of a path to British citizenship … Why does this unfairness continue to be allowed?

Both ukccen and EqualityMatters have raised similar issues in the same week. The issues are, however, different and, as replying to both would be very lengthy we are going to reply to ukccen’s this week and will try to come back to EqualityMatter in a future week. It is not clear from the enquiry whether ukccen is male or female but I shall assume for purposes of the advice that she is female. In any case, the advice offered is not affected by her sex.