UK Visas and British Citizenship

Such visas are issued to spouses and partners of British citizens and of permanent residents who have been married or together for 4 years or more. Before 9 July 2012: spouses/partners in such cases (who have been together to 4 years or more) were given a permanent visa straight away when they applied outside the UK. It was called Indefinite Leave to Enter. It is permanent visa, which does not need to be extended.  However, if such spouse/partner did not pass Life In The UK Test (also known as Knowledge of Life) then he/she was given a 2 year visa to enter the UK with wording "Spouse/Partner: KOL required". If you happened to have such a visa it means you can apply for permanent residency as soon as you have passed a Life In The UK Test. You do NOT have to wait for 2 years on a Spouse visa.  From 9 July 2012: all spouses and partners get the visa for the same duration, however long they have been married. There is no longer provision to get a permanent visa, even if have bee...

Multi Travel Visas Ltd has been accredited for years with various Embassies in London. We can submit Chinese visa applications every day WITHOUT APPOINTMENTS and it takes 3 wo ... rking days to process a visa application. RUSSIAN VISAS and INVITATIONS: work, business and tourism on next-day service or 1-week service. SAUDI ARABIAN visas in 3 working days. Contact us now: info@multitravelvisas.co.uk, we reply on the same day! Phone: 0871 472 1468. Calls to 0871 number cost £0.10 per minute, emails are free. Our office is based at an iconic building of The Royal Mint in Central London, conveniently located near Tower Hill tube station, Tower Gateway DLR station. Close to the City and Canary Wharf. Office address: 4 Royal Mint Court, London, EC3N 4JH. Near Tower Hill tube station and DLR Tower Gateway. Web-site: www.multitravelvisas.co.uk with the visa requirements and clients' feedbacks.

For the price of our advice session you can download this detailed brochure (more detailed than advice session) and refer to it anytime as you need. Download from our website: www.1st4immigration.com/immigration-training-courses.php 1st 4Immigration Ltd are a company of OISC-registered Immigration Advisers based at an iconic building of The Royal Mint in Central London. We specialise in Settlement, Work (Tier 1 General, Tier 2), Spouse/Partner/Fiancee Visas, applications for family members of European citizens. We regularly submit applications using fast same-day Premium service at Home Office.  After years of our practical experience - and many successful cases! - we offer to share our extensive knowledge with other immigration advisers and solicitors. Our materials can also be used by the applicants (who are applying for a visa) as they are written in a plain language and are aimed to explain the Immigration Rules. 1st 4Immigration website: www.1st4immigration.com

If you can't find any Guidance - it's because it has not been properly written .  For example, EEA4 form still says 'This info does not apply to Bulgarian/Romanian nationals' but why not? Like nationals of all other EU countries, Bulgarian and Romanian nationals can apply for Permanent Residency after 5 years of 'exercising Treaty rights' in the UK, such as after 5 years of working, studying or being self-employed. The EEA4 guidance has simply not been updated yet. This is because 2012 is the 1st year when such applications are possible, since joining the EU in 2007. Did you know there is no obligation to apply for Permanent Residency? On one hand, this status comes automatically, after exercising European Treaty rights in the UK for 5 years. There is no 'visa stamp' which comes automatically but status gets achieved without having to apply for a 'visa stamp'. On the other hand, 1 more year later it is possible to apply straight for British...

We are often asked by the clients when to extend a Tier 1 General visa? When is the earliest?  Answer: You can extend your Tier 1 General visa anytime, as early as you want (but before it expires). There is no rule on extending it only within last 3 months or within 28 days on the current visa, as many people tend to think. Tier 1 General extension can be anytime, it just may be more sensible not to extend too early.  If you extend earlier than 3 months before your visa expires then your new visa will start on the day of decision, in other words, you'd lose some time on your current visa. If you are planning to apply for an ILR based on the two Tier 1 visas then you'd be short of time and would have to do another extension, which in most cases is unnecessary.  However, if you had other visas before Tier 1 which can be combined with Tier 1, such as HSMP or Work Permit or some (only some!) Tier 2 Intra-Company Transfer visas, then you probably won't need another extension....

If you cannot get an appointment we can help, we have worked with the French and Portuguse Embassies in London for years! We submit applications using separate system of appointments for representatives. French visa takes 4 working days from the appointment date for most nationals (S.African, Indian, Russian, Thai, Chinese, Turkish etc), takes 2-3 weeks for some nationals. Portuguese visa takes 1 week from a Tuesday. Contact us: www.multitravelvisas.co.uk

There are plenty of Rules governing children who are born in the UK, so we'll try to keep the answer simple. A child born in the UK does NOT automatically become British (unlike in America). Instead, it depends on child's parents status. 1) If child's parent (one or both) is British then the child will be a British citizen too. 2) If child's parent (one or both) is not British but has permanent residency in the UK, ie holds an Indefinite Leave to Remain or Permanent Residency under European law, then the child will be British also (even if both parents aren't British). 3) If the child's parents are both not permanent residents and hold visas, such as Tier 1, Tier 2, Work Permit etc, then the child will NOT be British, even though he/she was born in the UK. In such cases a child can be given a dependant visa on his/her parents. This can be done as a separate application, though it's not compulsory and can be done instead at the time of parents...