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Приветствую. См. здесь: https://forum.chemodan.com.ua/topic/53916-важные-судебные-решения-и-новости-для-иммигрантов/

Я - британский адвокат высшей категории с историческим статусом (получен лет 15-20 тому назад) Home Office Highly Trusted Representative.

С Наступившим. Я был рад помочь Вам :-)

Приветствую. С Наступающим ! Вы задаете много детальных вопросов. Моя помощь на форуме не безлимитная. Если я буду отвечать только на Ваши детальные вопросы, как я смогу помочь другим ? Я здесь для дальнейшей консультации: https://legalcentre.org/Konsultacija-s-Advokatom.html

Я упоминал это ранее, но "повторение - мать учения". Собственно говоря: BRC (Biometric Residence Card), выданные на основании EU law будет не действительны после 30-06-2021 Даже несмотря на то, что они еще будут действительны год, два, три и т.д. после 30-06-2021. Даже несмотря на то, что у Вас есть EU Settled или EU Pre-Settled status. Цитата из моей статьи в англоговорящих источниках: "Home Office BRC cards issued under the EEA law will not be valid from after the 30th June 2021: https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-a-uk-residence-card: If you already have a residence card it will not be valid after 30 June 2021. That is even if your "old type" BRC card is still valid well past the 30th June 2021". BRC "старого EU образца - EU Right to Reside и т.п." нужно заменить на BRC "нового образца" - Limited Leave to Remain (EU Pre-settled status) или Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) - EU Settled Status. Обычный процесс заменя BRC "старого образца" на BRC "нового образца" - это подача иммиграционное заявления, сдача отпечатков, загрузка документов на сайт Sopra Steria и т.п.

Для AN клиенты обычно показывают P60 за все года и wage slops с начала текущего финансового года and up to-date.

Только что (09.30, 30-12-2020) подал заявление двух форумчан. Взял им 2 бесплатных слота в Кройдоне на 26 января 2021 года.

28 December 2020 – Just useful and interesting UK & EEA Immigration Law news and updates from the Legal Centre – Open 7 days a week - www.legalcentre.org - +44(0)3300010342, +44(0)7791145023 (WhatsApp/Viber) >>> How new visa rules on invalidity will create more overstayers The Home Office recently introduced a set of new validity requirements for visa applications under the Points Based Immigration System, such as the Skilled Worker route. This is significant because an invalid application doesn’t extend your permission to be in the UK while it is being considered (what’s called “section 3C leave”). So if you dutifully apply to extend your visa just before it expires, and the application is later rejected as invalid because you failed to meet a validity requirement, it will be like you never made an application. You’re now an overstayer. Invalidity can be worse than a refusal Validity requirements existed before but pretty much all the old ones (in paragraph 34 of the Immigration Rules, which still applies to non-Points Based Immigration System applications) were things that could be rectified. If you paid the wrong application fee, for example, the Home Office would send you a letter giving you two weeks to pay the correct fee. If you did that, your application was validated and considered valid from the date you lodged the application, so you had section 3C leave all along. The new requirements are category-specific and import what used to be eligibility rules into the validity section. Many are things that cannot be rectified. So if you apply under UK Ancestry and you’re not a Commonwealth citizen, or you are applying in-country and do not already have permission in this category, your application is invalid. There is no way to rectify the failure to meet these two requirements. Previously, such an application would have been refused on eligibility grounds. But because it was a valid application, section 3C leave meant you had time to work out your next steps — whether to leave the UK to avoid overstaying, or put in a different application. By contrast, you often don’t find out that your application is invalid until after your permission in the UK was due to expire. By the time you get the invalidity letter from the Home Office, you might well have been an overstayer for weeks or months without knowing it. This will hit applicants who are applying without legal assistance harder than others. We at the Legal Centre (www.legalcentre.org) expects to see increasing numbers of clients who have lodged the wrong application, had it rejected as invalid, and are now overstayers. But it will affect lawyers as well. If a new client comes to us the day their permission is due to expire, we can’t just fire off an application to trigger section 3C leave and worry about whether they meet all the requirements later. Previously, once we had ensured that our client’s leave was extended pending a decision, we always had the option of varying the application to another category if we discovered that they did not meet the rules for the application that had just gone in. That won’t be an option in circumstances where the initial application is invalid — you cannot vary an invalid application. How easy is it to fall foul of a validity requirement? Some of the new validity requirements are tricky. If you apply in the Skilled Worker route and you currently have leave outside the Rules, that’s an invalid application. If a new client shows their lawyer a residence permit endorsed with “leave to remain”, they have no way of knowing just from looking at the permit whether it’s leave outside the Rules. This makes it more important than ever for employers to do right to work checks on time. An employee could produce evidence that they made an in-time application but it can later turn out to be invalid so they never actually made an application before their permission expired. A timely right to work check will protect the employer if that turns out to be the case. The Validation, variation and withdrawal of applications guidance has been updated in light of the new category-specific validity requirements and is definitely worth reading. It’s useful to note that if you apply on the wrong form, you will at least be given the chance to rectify that: "If an applicant has not applied on the correct specified form, you must contact them using the validation warning template ICD 4944 on Doc Gen or the IC and OOC validation reminder on Atlas telling them, (indicating what the correct form is) and give them 10 working days to submit an application on that form." But when it comes to requirements that cannot be met, even if you were given the opportunity to rectify the error, your application will just be rejected as invalid: "Where it is clear that the applicant cannot meet the validity requirement, for example, where the applicant did not meet a minimum age requirement or a nationality requirement, and you do not consider it appropriate to exercise discretion (for example if they missed the age requirement by one day), providing a further opportunity to provide evidence that they do meet the requirement would be futile. In these cases you may reject the application without seeking further evidence using the ‘Validation rejection no write out’ template on Atlas." Is there anything that can be done in such circumstances? Validity hacks If one had a case where it became clear that the client wouldn’t meet an unfixable requirement (such as having to be a Commonwealth citizen) after they submitted their application, one would be tempted to put in a covering letter that said, for example, “This is an application for leave outside the Rules”. This might allow the Home Office to treat the application as invalid because the wrong form was used and give the applicant an opportunity to remedy the invalidity by lodging a different form, rather than reject it as irreparably invalid because they’re not a Commonwealth citizen. Note that it is difficut to be sure that this option will work for sure, but if the alternative is invalidity, it might be worth a try. Of course, if by the time that you discover that one of the validity requirements is not met, the applicant still has permission, the simple solution is just to lodge a different, valid, application before permission expires. In cases where there is any doubt about whether a validity requirement is met, and expiry of permission is imminent, one approach could be to lodge a different application — one to which the old paragraph 34 validity requirements apply. The one could then vary it to the right application once the one has had the chance to properly assess the validity requirements of that route.

Приветствую. Я беру слоты клиентам (полное представление) сам. Используем Skype или Zoom. Начинаем подавать заявление в 09.15 (с оплатой). Заканчиваем примерно в 09.30. В это же время и подходим к биометрике. На прошлой неделе подавали заявления как у Вас с несколькими форумчанами. Я в районе 09.30 взял им слоты в Шотландии, Лондоне, Кройдоне, Лютоне и т.п.

Пожалуйста. Я был рад помочь Вам. С Наступающими !

Приветствую, 1. Вчера взял клиенту бесплатный слот на 18 января 2021 года. Подавали заявление на продление визы мужа британски. 2. Тогда нужно подавать то, что просит анкета :-) Это действительно простое заявление. 3. Рад был Вам помочь.

....Нужно....

23 December 2020 – Just useful and interesting UK & EEA Immigration Law news and updates from the Legal Centre – Open 7 days a week - www.legalcentre.org - +44(0)3300010342, +44(0)7791145023 (WhatsApp/Viber) >>> Country guidance changes affect pending decisions if not already sent out to the parties: https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKUT/IAC/2020/349.html Pending asylum appeals in Scotland can be affected by changes to country guidance right up to the point when they are sent out to the parties to the case, even if the judge has already signed off on his or decision, according to the Upper Tribunal in NRS and Another (NA (Libya) in Scotland) Iraq [2020] UKUT 349 (IAC). >>> Court of Appeal confirms no consultation duty for NHS advance charges: https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2020/1634.html In R (MP) v Secretary of State for Health And Social Care [2020] EWCA Civ 1634, the Court of Appeal upheld the High Court’s decision that there was no need for the government to consult the public before introducing advance charging of overseas visitors for NHS treatment. The High Court had also rejected the argument that the regulations breached the Public Sector Equality Duty and that allegation was not renewed before the Court of Appeal. The challenge was to 2017 regulations requiring NHS service providers to secure advance payment of the estimated cost of treatment before providing treatment to people who are not entitled to free treatment. There are exemptions for immediately necessary services, such as life-saving emergency treatments and the treatment of pregnant women and newborn babies. But the new regime required advance charging for most other forms of medical treatment.

Нет, нет разницы. Главное, чтобы другой человек об этом знал :-)

Приветствую. Связывайтесь с Home Office, UK VI, Вашим MP.

Мало данных. Какой уровень ? 1. Сейчас слотов все меньше и меньше. Буквально пару недель назад были еще даже бесплатные. В начала недели была консультация - люди не могли найти слот рядом с ними, оставляли на потом - и теперь вообще не могут найти никакого слота ДО deadline... 2. No comments. Слишком мало данных для такого важного заявления. Список документов в анкете частно НЕ СООТВЕТСВУЕТ тому, что НУЖНО подать по ПРАВИЛАМ. Тут Ваша ответственность, если сами подаете заявление. 3. Этот факт можно объяснить в Вашем сопроводительном письме.

Сегодня. Интересное дело. Клиентка из Украины получила супружескую визу в Великобританию. Спонсор (супруг) подал заявку на ILR (ПМЖ), в то время как клиент еще не мог подать заявку на ILR, поскольку она присоединилась к спонсору с задержкой в несколько лет. Таким образом, я сначала подал заявление спонсора на получение статуса ILR на основании 10-летнего проживания (SET (LR)) и одновременно подал заявление о переходе клиента (на «визу супруги британца / лица с ILR») (FLR (M)). Причина - иждивенцы лиц, подающих на ILR на основании Правила о 10 лет проживания в Великобритании не имеют права подавать заявление на ILR вместе с основным заявителем. Таким иждивенцам нужно отдельно подавать соответсвующее заявление. Я объяснил Home Office, что спонсор подал заявление на ILR и попросил "засчитать получение спонсором ILR как заочно", чтобы заявитель смогла подать заявление на получение "визы жены британца / лица с ILR", и попросил Home Office отложить рассмотрение заявление (FLR(M)) клиентки до тех пор, пока спонсор не получит его ILR. Спонсору был выдан ILR, а затем Home Office выдал клиентке «британскую супружескую визу» (BRP) на 2,5 года.

22 December 2020 – Just useful and interesting UK & EEA Immigration Law news and updates from the Legal Centre – Open 7 days a week - www.legalcentre.org - +44(0)3300010342, +44(0)7791145023 (WhatsApp/Viber) >>> Visiting the UK from 1 January 2021: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/visiting-the-uk-from-1-january-2021?utm_source=577b359a-e0ae-4563-be43-8d07e43b4087&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_content=daily What you need to know about crossing the UK border and visiting the UK from 1 January 2021. Added information, particularly about which documents non-EEA family members of EU, EEA or Swiss citizens need to show to enter the UK. >>> Russia: country policy and information notes: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/russia-country-policy-and-information-notes?utm_source=8c91b537-ced4-4305-8446-c3bdf46b795c&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_content=daily Guidance used by UK Visas and Immigration to make decisions in asylum and human rights applications. >>> Ukraine: country policy and information notes: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ukraine-country-policy-and-information-notes?utm_source=308d3710-4ca1-469b-8eb9-aa730667b781&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_content=daily Guidance used by UK Visas and Immigration to make decisions in asylum and human rights applications.

19 December 2020 – Just useful and interesting UK & EEA Immigration Law news and updates from the Legal Centre – Open 7 days a week - www.legalcentre.org - +44(0)3300010342, +44(0)7791145023 (WhatsApp/Viber) >>> Visa replacement vignettes - Home Office update: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-advice-for-uk-visa-applicants-and-temporary-uk-residents "If your 30 day or 90 day visa vignette to work, study or join family has expired If your 90 day vignette has expired, you will need to apply for a replacement by completing the online form. The cost of replacing an expired 90 day vignette is £154 and you will need to make an appointment to resubmit your biometric information. We strongly advise that you only apply for a new visa, or apply to replace an expired vignette, when you are confident you can travel to the UK. The new vignette will be valid for a period of 90 days. If you cannot travel during this time, you may need to apply again to update your vignette. If you have submitted an application for a replacement vignette, and are still awaiting a decision, but now no longer intend to travel, you should submit a withdrawal request at the Visa Application Centre that you applied from in order for your passport to be released back to you. We will continue to replace 30 day vignettes free of charge for eligible customers until 31 December 2020. To request a replacement 30 day visa you can either: · contact the Coronavirus Immigration Help Centre · arrange to return your passport to your VAC if it has re-opened Contacting the Coronavirus Immigration Help Centre: You’ll need to include your name, nationality, date of birth and your GWF reference number with ‘REPLACEMENT 30 DAY VISA’ in the subject line. If you’ve already contacted us about this, please let us know in your email. Contact the Coronavirus Immigration Help Centre. Please do not travel to the VAC with your passport until you have checked our commercial partner websites for the process in place for re-submitting your passport for your replacement visa, as this may vary depending on your geographical location: · TLS contact if you’re in Europe, Africa and parts of the Middle East · VFS global for all other countries The guidance is different if you applied through an enrolment location operated by Immigration New Zealand."

18 December 2020 – Just useful and interesting UK & EEA Immigration Law news and updates from the Legal Centre – Open 7 days a week - www.legalcentre.org - +44(0)3300010342, +44(0)7791145023 (WhatsApp/Viber) >>> Court of Appeal bombshell: EU citizens with pre-settled status CAN claim benefits: https://files.gcnchambers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/18111043/Fratila-v-Secretary-of-State-for-Work-and-Pensions-2020-EWCA-1741-18-December-2020.pdf The Court of Appeal has handed down a ruling that should, if not successfully appealed, make it easier for millions of EU citizens with pre-settled status to claim benefits. The case is Fratila and Tanase v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2020] EWCA Civ 1741. >>> How do Covid-related absences from the UK affect EU settled status? https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-eu-settlement-scheme-guidance-for-applicants On 15 December 2020 the Home Office published a short guidance document covering absences from the UK connected to COVID-19. It applies to EEA citizens and their family members who have settled or pre-settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme, or those who are eligible but haven’t applied yet. The guidance is important because many EU citizens have been forced to leave the UK for an extended period in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This doesn’t really matter to anyone who has settled status (or qualifies for it): as they have already completed their five-year “continuous qualifying period”, they are entitled to leave the UK for up to five years without their right to live here lapsing. But the absences from the UK can be important to someone with less than five years of residence: those with pre-settled status (or who qualify for it). If they are absent from the UK for more than six months, they may lose the right to upgrade to settled status if they don’t return to the UK before 31 December 2020. And even if they do return before that date, their continuous qualifying period of five years needed for settled status would be broken — they would need to start a new qualifying period and wait a full five years before being able to upgrade. Exceptions to the six-month rule There is a general rule within the Settlement Scheme that: "a single period of absence of more than 6 months but which does not exceed 12 months is permitted, where this is for an important reason." Acceptable examples of important reasons are listed in Appendix EU as pregnancy, childbirth, serious illness, study, vocational training or an overseas posting. But as the Settlement Scheme was launched before the pandemic, this new guidance looks at when a COVID-related absence between six and 12 months will be accepted as an important reason. In other words, what happens if you have pre-settled status and spend, say, eight months of the pandemic outside the UK — can you argue that the circumstances were so important that the extended absence doesn’t break your “continuous qualifying period”? COVID-19 will be accepted as an “important reason” only in certain, limited circumstances. Unfortunately, situations that are not covered are where a citizen has made a conscious decision to remain abroad for economic reasons, because they wanted to be closer to their family members or because they considered the risk to their health to be greater in the UK than in another country. The guidance only caters for situations where a person is considered to be forced to remain outside the UK due to travel restrictions, quarantine or COVID-19 related health complications. The only minor concession beyond this is for students who are enrolled at British universities but have been allowed to study online; they are considered to have an important reason to be absent for up to 12 months. The guidance then confirms that an absence that exceeds 12 months will always break the citizen’s continuous qualifying period irrespective of COVID-19. The pretty limited concession for absences of between six and 12 months is disappointing. The Home Office has been working on its COVID-19 absences policy for months and the outcome is a very short guidance document which does little more than reiterate the conditions that a citizen has to comply with in order to maintain their continuous qualifying residence under the Settlement Scheme. It had been hoped that the policy would provide more wide-ranging concessions, or allow caseworkers more discretion to overlook extended absences if the situation is sufficiently compelling.

Сегодня, из вечерних решений, т.е. решение пришло около 16.30 вечера по Email из Home Office. Для статистики. Гражданин Украины. Заявление на гражданство. Положительно рассмотрели за 2 месяца с даты подачи online заявления.

Впервые о таком слышу. Похоже на неофициальную инициативу этого отделения. Они - не Home Office, и не имеют права обычно это делать.

17 December 2020 – Just useful and interesting UK & EEA Immigration Law news and updates from the Legal Centre – Open 7 days a week - www.legalcentre.org - +44(0)3300010342, +44(0)7791145023 (WhatsApp/Viber) >>> New research: 34 ways to improve asylum appeals: https://publiclawproject.org.uk/resources/experiencing-asylum-appeals/ Today the University of Exeter and Public Law Project released new research drawing on ethnographic observations of 390 asylum appeal hearings, 41 interviews with asylum appellants and 19 interviews with lawyers. Some of the more troubling observations include security guards looking after children; female appellants struggling to disclose essential but sensitive details about rape to a male interpreter; and children overhearing the horrifying details of their parents’ asylum cases. Each poses a significant threat to the ability of appellants to engage fully and effectively in the appeal process. For each challenge, the report offers a series of recommendations — for a total of 34 — about how to improve fairness and access to justice in this jurisdiction.

>>> Coronavirus (COVID-19): EU Settlement Scheme - guidance for applicants: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavi...for-applicants Guidance for EUSS applicants in or outside the UK who have been affected by restrictions associated with coronavirus. >>> Coronavirus (COVID-19): Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016 - guidance for applicants: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavi...for-applicants Guidance for applicants for documentation issued under the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016 who have been affected by restrictions associated with coronavirus.

16 December 2020 – Just useful and interesting UK & EEA Immigration Law news and updates from the Legal Centre – Open 7 days a week - www.legalcentre.org - +44(0)3300010342, +44(0)7791145023 (WhatsApp/Viber) >>>Time to revisit spouse visa minimum income rule, government advisers suggest: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migration-advisory-committee-annual-report-2020 The infamous minimum income rule for spouse visas should be reconsidered, the influential Migration Advisory Committee has suggested. The MAC, a crack team of economists that advises the government on immigration policy, says in its annual report: "We… think now would be an opportune time to reconsider the minimum income requirements associated with this route. The MAC are concerned that previous analysis may have given too much weight to the fiscal contribution of such migrants and insufficient attention to the benefits that accrue, to both the family and society, from the route. In addition, it is a considerable time since the current income requirements were introduced, so more evidence should now be available to review the impact of these requirements." The “previous analysis” is the MAC’s own 2011 report, giving economic cover for the dramatic rise in the minimum income, required to sponsor someone for a spouse visa that came in the following year. Although the committee can hardly be blamed for the general thrust of the policy, it clearly regrets its past role in designing the nuts and bolts. The MAC can now take the initiative in examining policy areas, so may decide to conduct a review without ministerial direction, although government-commissioned research will take priority and may leave no time for a review of minimum income. The annual report also points to other policy areas that the MAC reckons are ripe for reform, such as investor visas, social care recruitment and the ban on asylum seekers working. >>> Supreme Court: no additional “exceptional circumstances” test in Zambrano deportation cases: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKSC/2020/53.html In the case of Robinson (Jamaica) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] UKSC 53 the Supreme Court has held that there is no “exceptional circumstances” test that applies in EU law to protect a non-EU national carer from deportation. The case involved a Jamaican woman who is the mother of a British citizen child, now aged 12. The woman was imprisoned for a Class A drug supply offence back in 2006 and deportation proceedings began in 2007. She was settled in the UK (i.e. she had indefinite leave to remain), as was her husband. >>> Expert report finds room for improvement in UK’s statelessness system: https://www.unhcr.org/uk/5fd893304 The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, has recently released a new report auditing the Home Office’s procedure for deciding statelessness applications. The audit finds that there is considerable room for improvement in how the UK processes applications to stay in the UK by people who are not considered as nationals by any state in the world.­ >>> Coronavirus (COVID-19): EU Settlement Scheme - guidance for applicants: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-eu-settlement-scheme-guidance-for-applicants Guidance for EUSS applicants in or outside the UK who have been affected by restrictions associated with coronavirus. >>> Coronavirus (COVID-19): Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016 - guidance for applicants: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-immigration-european-economic-area-regulations-2016-guidance-for-applicants Guidance for applicants for documentation issued under the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016 who have been affected by restrictions associated with coronavirus.