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"Мужской день" Сегодня положительные решения получили 3 клиента мужского пола. Категория - супруги британских гражданок. География: - Украина: 2 - Россия: 1 Заявления,поданные в августе 2020 рассмотрели в конце октярбря 2020 года. Т.е. сейчас срок рассмотрения по категории FLRM составляет 2.5 месяца.

Это внутренний вопрос и UK BA не интересует/регулироует :-)

22 October 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) >>> Online application forms to be deleted in 7 days unless accessed We noted that the Home Office now advices on the online application forms that “You must return to your form within 7 days, or it will be deleted to protect your privacy.” You have been warned. >>> Inbuilt obstacles and mechanisms that the Home Office use to defeat, deny and deter immigration claims: https://ukimmigrationjusticewatch.com/2017/05/09/inbuilt-obstacles-and-mechanisms-that-the-home-office-use-to-defeat-deny-and-deter-immigration-claims/ Some persons may make late human rights or protection claims that could have been made earlier. A person resisting removal may try and make a late claim because if they exercise their right of appeal it could delay removal. To make this behaviour ineffective in preventing or delaying removal, the new process under the Immigration Act 2014 requires that a section 120 notice is served in every case. This notice requires the person to make any further claim now or as soon as reasonably practicable after it arises The consequence of not complying with the notice and making a late claim could be that the claim is certified under section 96 Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 which removes any consequential right of appeal where the claim is refused.

Обратите внимание, что теперь Home Office будет удалять (неподанные/сохраненные в черновик) формы если в них не заходить более 7 дней. С сайта Home Office: "Online application forms to be deleted in 7 days unless accessed"

Произошло в течение 24 часов. Обратился клиент. Я помог получить ему и его жене ILR по категории Tier 2(General) в прошлом году. В этому году клиент с женой подавали на гражданство. Клиент использовал тот же тест по английскому языку (IELTS 6.5), что был использован им в 2013 года для приезда в Великобританию и потом для того, чтобы получить ILR в прошлом году и вот теперь - для заявления по гражданству. Неожиданно, вчера, клиент получил Email из Home Office, где говорилось, что Home Office не может принять его "просроченный" сертификат и тем более там не указано, что он сдал тест на уровень B1 (NB: Уровень IELTS 6.5 = B1/C1). Клиент попросил помочь. Был отправлен детальный Email в Home Office со ссылкой и даже графикой на информации с сайта Home Office и Guidance о том, что сертификат клиента по английскому языку подходит по требованиям Home Office. Ровно через 1 час и 10 минут Home Office ответил по Email, что они признают свою ошибку. Сегодня, 22-10-2020, т.е. в течение 24 часов, пришли положительные решения о том, что клиент и его жена получили положительные решения по их заявлениям на натурализацию. https://legalcentre.org/files/AN_approved_October_2020_22_1.JPG[/IMG]

Пожалуйста. Я был рад помочь Вам.

Пожалуйста. Я был рад помочь Вам.

Из недавнего. Порадовал Home Office в этот раз, положительно рассмотрев заявления клентов всего за 3 недели (после сдачи биометрики). Клиенты (Украина + Евпосоюз, семья) попробовали сначала подать заявления сами, но получили отказ, потеряв время и £2660 госпошлины. Попросили меня помочь. Подавали заяление online и биометрику по моей рекомендации сдавали в Sopra Steria, а не через IDV app.

20 October 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) >>> UK points-based immigration system: further details statement: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-points-based-immigration-system-further-details-statement This statement provides further details on the government's plans for a new UK points-based immigration system. >>> UK points-based immigration system: EU student information: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-points-based-immigration-system-eu-student-information Information for visas for EU ciziens who intends to study in the UK from 01-01-2021 >>> Most visa app-lications to be done on smartphones ? The Home Office has been rolling out new webpages for the public on how to get a visa, in preparation for the new points-based immigration system due to come in from 1 January 2021. One such page was published yesterday- https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-uks-points-based-immigration-system-information-for-eu-citizens - aimed at EU citizens. The overall message is “yes, you will in fact need a visa now” but there’s one section that was of a particular interest": "Most people will be able to complete their [visa] application, including identity verification, using a smartphone app. Some applicants may need to attend a Visa Application Centre depending on the route they are applying for and whether they have a biometric passport or are unable to use the app." The immigration system has of course been going digital in recent years but I haven’t previously seen the government saying that it will soon be using apps for everything. While the page is addressed to EU citizens, the whole point of the new immigration system is that there are no longer special routes for Europeans, so it seems likely that app-based applications will be widely available to non-EU citizens as well. Millions of people have applied to the EU Settlement Scheme using an EU Exit app over the past few years. More recently, during the pandemic, certain non-EU citizens trying to extend their visas have been invited to use the snappily named UKVCAS IDV app (United Kingdom Visas and Citizenship Application Services, Identity Verification). In both cases, users avoid the need for an in-person appointment.

19 October 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) >>> COVID19 and the UK Immigration updates Spouses and minimum income (UPDATED 16 October) Another group of people under particular pressure during the crisis is families where one partner is on, or about to apply for, a spouse visa. Loss of earnings as a result of the coronavirus-induced economic crash may mean that the family fall foul of the financial requirements. Until 8 June there was no published concession for people in this situation. There is now a section of the guidance on Changes to the minimum income and adequate maintenance requirement. It says: "If you’ve experienced a loss of income due to coronavirus up to 1 January 2021, we will consider employment income for the period immediately before the loss of income, provided the minimum income requirement was met for at least 6 months immediately before the date the income was lost. If your salary has reduced because you’re furloughed, we will take account of your income as though you’re earning 100% of your salary. If you’re self-employed, a loss of annual income due to coronavirus between 1 March 2020 and 1 January 2021 will usually be disregarded, along with the impact on employment income from the same period for future applications." This concession initially applied only for loss of income up to 31 August, but was extended to 1 January 2021 on 16 October. There is a bit more information on page 69 of the Appendix FM 1.7: financial requirement guidance. Students (UPDATED 16 October) The Home Office released a separate guidance document about coronavirus and student visas on 20 April. It covers a number of temporary immigration concessions for those on student and short-term student visas which “will be withdrawn once the situation returns to normal”. The section of the document aimed at individual students covers: "Distance learning: now permitted. This is both for existing students and, since a 16 June update, for new students “provided they intend to transition to face-to-face learning as soon as circumstances allow”. Students who do not intend to travel to the UK and will do the course entirely from abroad “do not require sponsorship”. Extending an existing visa: students who need to complete a course delayed by coronavirus can apply in-country for an extension to complete the course. If looking to extend to start a new course, officials will exercise discretion to overlook the normal requirement that the new course should begin no more than 28 days after the student’s permission expires, so long as the new course starts before 31 December 2020. Police registration: students normally required to do this need to check if their particular police force is facilitating it. If not, they can register “once social distancing measures are lifted”. Working hours: students working for the NHS in various listed professions are exempt from the normal 20 hour a week cap. Time limits: “discretion may be applied” if someone applies for an extension that would take them over the normal maximum period allowed for undergraduate or below degree-level study. Graduate route: still “scheduled to be launched in summer 2021″. Students who begin their course through distance learning can still switch into it so long as they ” enter the UK before 6 April 2021 and complete the final semester of their studies in the UK”." For short-term students, in-country switching onto a full student visa was “allowed on an exceptional basis” until 1 October, provided the person arrived in the UK before 31 July. That has now been dropped from the latest version of the guidance, published on 5 October. Start-up and Innovator visas (NEW 16 October) The guidance for the Start-up route was updated on 12 October to include a coronavirus concession. It says: "Where an migrant [sic] holds leave in the Start-up route and their business has been detrimentally impacted by COVID-19, they are able to apply for a one-time grant of additional leave of 12 months, beyond the normal maximum 2 year period permitted in the Immigration Rules." There is also a newish coronavirus section in the guidance for Start-up and Innovator endorsing bodies. Among other things, it advises those handing out endorsements to have “frank discussions” with would-be applicants, who may wish to think about “whether they are likely to be able to start developing their business in the UK under the current situation”.

Вот как выглядят решение о получения гражданства семьей с ребенком. Как всегда, решение приходит по Email. Сертификат о регистрации ребенка приходит по почте, вторым классом (!). Приглашение на церемонию по натурализации для родителей придет позже. В последнее время задержки были около 4-х месяцев.

Приветствую. Обычно нужно ждать 12 месяцев. Но есть исключения. Например, если EU супруг уже стал британцем.

Приветствую, Если есть действительная BRP от прошлого статуса, Home Office обычно новую BRP не выcылает. Нужно подавать заявление на BRP replace...

Это у них клише ответа такое. Замечаю задержки в рассмотрении зарубежных заявлений с лета, примерно.

Октябрь 2020 года богат положительными решениями по легализации родителей-нелегалов, у кого есть дети с британскими паспортами.

Граждане EU обычно получают комбинированное письмо-решение о присвоении им британского гражданства. Обратите внимание на "шикарную" задержку в датах выдачи письма (23-09-2020) и дате получения письма (14-10-2020). Такие письмо до сих пор приходят по почте. Что мешает Home Office делать все оперативно и присылать такие решения по Email, как происходит с другими типами заявлений - не понятно.

"Все флаги в гости к нам". Сегодня клиенты из Японии, России, Белоруссии и Украины получили кто визы для въезда в Великобританию, кто-то смог наконец легализоваться, кто-то получил ПМЖ (ILR), а кто-то просто стал британцем.

А вот как выглядит решение по легализации гражданина России - отца британского ребенка.

О письмах-приглашениях на церемонию получения британского гражданства. Кто-то из клиентов получает т.н. комбинированно письмо о том, что его/ее заявление одобрено и что клиент может заказывать церемонию получения британского гражданства. Кто-то сначала получает письмо о том, что заявление одобрено и что нужно отдельно ждать приглашение на церемонию. Скорее всего, это зависит от загруженности того или иного местного горсовета, где проходят церемонии получения британского гражданства. Сегодня получили отдельное письмо-приглашение на церемонию получения британского гражданства для клиента, кто получил т.н. approval letter еще в середине июня 2020. То есть задержка в случаях получения "раздельных писем" составляет примерно 4 месяца.

Вот как выгляди очередная супружеская виза, полученная клиенткой из России. Срок действия визы для въезда в Великобританию увеличен с 1 месяца до 3-х месяцев. Заявление подавалось по ускоренному типу и было рассмотрено менее чем за 1 месяц.

08 October 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) >>> It just got even more difficult for EU nationals to get British citizenship: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/good-character-nationality-policy-guidance and https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/naturalisation-as-a-british-citizen-by-discretion-nationality-policy-guidance On 30 September 2020 the Home Office updated its good character policy for naturalisation to make it even harder for EU nationals to become British citizens. One of the requirements for naturalisation as a British citizen is to have lived in the UK for five years (or three years if married to a Brit). Time living here in breach of UK immigration law doesn’t count. The Home Office has long taken the view that EU citizens physically present in the UK but who do not have a right of residence under EU law are in breach of UK immigration law. Unknowingly lacking a right to reside is surprisingly common — many people without comprehensive sickness insurance were caught out by this in the past. Because of Brexit, European residents and their family members have been offered immigration status under UK law (instead of EU law). Getting the new “settled status” does not require proof of a previous right to reside — it is mostly based on simple presence in the UK. But when people with settled status come to apply for citizenship, the Home Office is now saying that the right to reside issue must be dealt with in their application. Simply having settled status is not enough, in this context. Settled status will serve as proof of being free of immigration time restrictions (another of the naturalisation requirements) but will not do in terms of showing that the person’s residence up to the point of getting settled status was in accordance with immigration law. The updated guidance says: "An EEA or Swiss citizen or their family members who have a 5 years’ continuous qualifying period of residence in the UK and Islands when they apply to the EU Settlement Scheme will be eligible for settled status… However, this grant of settled status (also know as indefinite leave to enter or remain) will not confirm that they were here lawfully under the EEA Regulations during that time, as defined by the British Nationality Act 1981 as this is not a requirement of the EU Settlement Scheme. You may therefore need to request further information from the applicant to demonstrate this." The EEA Regulations contain the detailed rules on how EU free movement law operates in the UK. The guidance goes on to tell officials: "You must assess whether the individual has been here lawfully during their 3 or 5 year residential period prior to pre-settled status or settled status, by considering on the balance of probabilities whether they were here: as a qualified person (such as a worker, student, self-employed, selfsufficient, retired or incapacitated person) as the family member of such a person." Evidence of this can include API data or documents previously submitted to satisfy their lawful residence. Where appropriate, you must also be satisfied that the person was lawfully in the UK, with comprehensive sickness insurance (CSI). None of this appeared in previous editions of the naturalisation policy. Later on, the document does suggest that there is discretion to overlook some technical breaches of the EEA Regulations: "Following the introduction of the EU Settlement Scheme you may increasingly see applications from EEA or Swiss nationals who have not fully complied with additional requirements under the EEA regulations, such as having comprehensive sickness insurance where they needed it, and who may therefore have been in breach of immigration law. When considering such applications you should take into account all the facts surrounding such a breach and make a full assess[m]ent about whether discretion should be exercised in their favour." On exercising discretion, the policy suggests that being in breach of the EEA Regulations is not as bad as entering the UK illegally or overstaying on a visa. But Europeans — assuming they are aware of their precise legal status in the first place — will have to “provide sufficient evidence to justify discretion being exercised in their favour”. The effect will be to make it more difficult for EU citizens to become British than if settled status were simply accepted as evidence of having been lawfully resident. By contrast, if the person has previously secured a permanent residence card, that will — unlike settled status — serve as proof of five years’ lawful residence. It should also be possible to rely on residence since being granted pre-settled or settled status without supporting evidence. The policy says that “once granted pre-settled status, [citizenship applicants] will not need to demonstrate that they were exercising a treaty right”. Compliance with the EEA Regulations is relevant to “residence prior to the grant of pre-settled status, or settled status”. The issue will also affect citizens of Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland. >>> Extra guidance for Health and Care Visa sponsors: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sponsor-a-tier-2-or-5-worker-guidance-for-employers New government guidance sets out additional steps for employers when sponsoring foreign medical workers applying for the new Health and Care Visa. The visa launched on 4 August 2020 as a subcategory of the existing Tier 2 (General) route for sponsored workers. The updated Tier 2 and Tier 5 guidance for sponsors explains that extra steps are required for employers assigning a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) in this new route. Firstly, the job description summary must clearly state how the job meets the visa criteria – so employers must confirm which SOC code applies and expressly state which approved body will employ the worker. The full list of approved bodies appears at A2 of the separate Tier 2 policy guidance (also just updated) which contains detailed information on who qualifies for the visa. Secondly, private organisations assigning a CoS must include details about their arrangements with the relevant NHS body to provide medical services. Sponsors who forget to include this information at the time of assigning the CoS must add it to a “sponsor note” afterwards. Thirdly, employers must tell migrants to ensure they actually specify the Health and Care subcategory in their visa application, to make sure the application is correctly processed. These extra steps are apparently needed to ensure applicants qualify for “special treatment” during the processing stage, including fast-track entry, reduced fees and automatic exemption from the (otherwise quite high) Immigration Health Surcharge. NHS workers who don’t qualify for a Health and Care Visa have to pay the surcharge up front and claim it back.

Вот так сейчас выглядят решения о получении ILR по категории Long Residence (10 Years - SET(LR)). В данном случае клиент один из первых сдавал биометрику через приложение IDV App. Срок ожидания был 2 месяца.

Если документа нет на руках (совсем), тогда его ну нужно указывать. Во внутреннем паспорте UA нет даты окончания. Для Home Office этот документ - существующий. Что и куда и когда нужно вклеивать - их не интересует. Это британская анкета. И в ней есть вопрос про внутренний паспорт / ID документ. Я, по крайней мере, если паспорт есть, всегда вношу его данные. По крайней мере в последних нескольких сотен заявлений граждан Украины, России и т.п., чьи заявления я подавал после введения этого вопроса в online анкетах. То же касается копий просроченных и т.п. загранпаспортов - их так же нужно прилагать (scan - upload). Выбор за Вами (С)

07 October 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) >>> Immigration Health Surcharge rises to £624 from 27 October 2020: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1086/made The Immigration Health Surcharge will increase from £400 a year to £624 a year on 27 October 2020. The Immigration (Health Charge) (Amendment) Order 2020 (SI 2020 No. 1086) was made yesterday, 6 October, and comes into force 21 days later. As a result, UK immigration applications sent in before the 27th will be hundreds of pounds cheaper than those completed after that date. The order also provides that applicants for a Health and Care visa are exempt from paying the surcharge. A reduced rate of £470 will apply to students, dependants of students, Youth Mobility visa holders and anyone under 18. The Conservatives first promised to increase the surcharge during the 2019 general election campaign and gave more details in the March 2020 budget. A draft order originally set the date of increase as 1 October but was later replaced by the version that has just passed into law. Migrants already pay for the NHS through their taxes, so what the surcharge really represents is a tax on UK visas. It is levied in addition to Home Office administration fees.

Да, нужно указывать.