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>>> Home Office наконец объеденил всю информацию по COVID19 в отношении иммиграциии на одной странице: https://www.gov.uk/government/collec...on-and-borders The Home Office is now collating its guidance for those affected by changes to UK immigration and borders due to coronavirus on a dedicated page. >>> Информация о том, как и запросить бумажную анкету для получения EU Settled Status в случаях, когда невозможно подать заявление через мобильный телефон (Zambrano, Surninder Singh и т.п.) во время COVID19 To request a paper application form for the EUSS, you need to submit a query via the online enquiry form at https://eu-settled-status-enquiries....e.gov.uk/start ensuring you provide the following information relating to the applicant: -Full Name (as shown on identity document) -Address -Date of Birth -Nationality -Telephone number -Postal address -Email address -Details of your representative (name, email, phone number if applicable) -Reference number of any previous residence document issued to you The Home Office cannot accept any documents by post at this time, but all documents already sent will be returned as quickly as possible. Applications can still be made online using the “EU Exit ID Document check app”. >>> Заявления на получение спонсорских лицензий по категории Tier 2, Tier 4 и Tier 5 теперь можно подать по Email (раньше - только по почте и только оригиналы) Correspondence from UKVI re sponsor licence applications and submission sheets - digital copies The Coronavirus Immigration Team has confirmed that original documents are not required for sponsor submission sheets and sponsor licence applications. They can be sent as scanned .pdf files via email. Digital signatures are also acceptable at present for submission sheets.

2 April 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 centralised Home Office webpage about COVID19 and the Immigration: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/coronavirus-covid-19-immigration-and-borders The Home Office is now collating its guidance for those affected by changes to UK immigration and borders due to coronavirus on a dedicated page. >>> Update on EU settlement scheme application procedures - paper application forms To request a paper application form for the EUSS, you need to submit a query via the online enquiry form at https://eu-settled-status-enquiries.service.gov.uk/start ensuring you provide the following information relating to the applicant: -Full Name (as shown on identity document) -Address -Date of Birth -Nationality -Telephone number -Postal address -Email address -Details of your representative (name, email, phone number if applicable) -Reference number of any previous residence document issued to you The Home Office cannot accept any documents by post at this time, but all documents already sent will be returned as quickly as possible. Applications can still be made online using the “EU Exit ID Document check app”. >>> Correspondence from UKVI re sponsor licence applications and submission sheets - digital copies The Coronavirus Immigration Team has confirmed that original documents are not required for sponsor submission sheets and sponsor licence applications. They can be sent as scanned .pdf files via email. Digital signatures are also acceptable at present for submission sheets. >>> What happens when a variation application is invalid? See https://tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk/utiac/2019-ukut-417 This was the question answered by the Upper Tribunal in R (Bajracharya) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (para. 34 – variation – validity) [2019] UKUT 417 (IAC). Mr Bajracharya made an application to remain in the UK on the basis of his private and family life. He provided his biometric information as required. Before a decision was made on this first application, he made a second application, this time for indefinite leave to remain (ILR). A person can have only one application for leave to remain outstanding at any given time. An application submitted whilst an earlier application is still pending is treated as a variation. But Mr Bajracharya did not provide his biometric information as part of the ILR application, meaning that this application was invalid. The question for the Upper Tribunal was: what happens to the underlying private and family life application? Does the underlying application survive the invalidation of the variation application? The competing arguments The Home Office position was that Mr Bajracharya had ended up with no valid application. The department argued that the ILR application was valid at the time of submission. This is supported by two previous cases which held that an application is not retrospectively invalidated by failure to fulfil a future obligation (such as to post a passport or provide biometric information). The application is invalid from the date of that failure, not from the outset. The ILR application was therefore valid, at least at first. This valid variation subsumed the previous application. When Mr Bajracharya failed to provide his biometrics, the sole outstanding application was invalidated. There was, by this point, no previous application in existence for him to fall back on. Mr Bajracharya argued that defects in an attempt to vary an application do not infect the underlying application. The variation was invalid, but the initial application remained valid and pending. A difference in wording The Upper Tribunal agreed with Mr Bajracharya. It relied on a distinction between the wording of the rules on initial applications and variation applications. As a result, Mr Bajracharya’s application for judicial review was successful and the case returned to the Home Office to make a decision on the outstanding private and family life application. The official headnote (1) Paragraph 34 [A-F] of the Immigration Rules is to be construed by the application of the ordinary principles of statutory construction, which start from the natural meaning of the words in their context. (2) Paragraph 34 requires applicants to make an application for leave to remain in accordance with the provisions of 34. (3) If a second application is submitted when the first application is outstanding, the second application will be treated as a variation of the first application [34BB(2)]. (4) If the variation does not comply with the requirements in paragraph 34 “the variation will be invalid and will not be considered” (paragraph 34E). Invalidity does not extend to the original application.

>>>Иностранный медперсонал и члены их семей получат автоматическое бесплатное продление виз на 1 год + освобождение от оплаты т.н. NHS Surcharge: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nhs-frontline-workers-visas-extended-so-they-can-focus-on-fighting-coronavirus?utm_source=d0e814b3-bfad-4cde-9280-ff8e8b6f44ba&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_content=immediate Цитата: "Doctors, nurses and paramedics with visas due to expire before 1 October 2020 will have them automatically extended for one year. As part of the national effort to combat coronavirus, doctors, nurses and paramedics will automatically have their visas extended, free of charge, for one year. The extension, announced today (31 March) by the Home Secretary Priti Patel, will apply to around 2,800 migrant doctors, nurses and paramedics, employed by the NHS whose visa is due to expire before 1 October. The extension will also apply to their family members, demonstrating how valued overseas NHS staff are to the UK."

01 April 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) >>> NHS front line workers visas extended so they can focus on fighting coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nhs-frontline-workers-visas-extended-so-they-can-focus-on-fighting-coronavirus?utm_source=d0e814b3-bfad-4cde-9280-ff8e8b6f44ba&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_content=immediate Doctors, nurses and paramedics with visas due to expire before 1 October 2020 will have them automatically extended for one year. As part of the national effort to combat coronavirus, doctors, nurses and paramedics will automatically have their visas extended, free of charge, for one year. The extension, announced today (31 March) by the Home Secretary Priti Patel, will apply to around 2,800 migrant doctors, nurses and paramedics, employed by the NHS whose visa is due to expire before 1 October. The extension will also apply to their family members, demonstrating how valued overseas NHS staff are to the UK. By giving them the peace of mind that they do not need to apply for a visa extension, this will allow those at the front line – working around the clock in hospitals to treat the most seriously ill – to focus fully on combating coronavirus and saving lives. To get more doctors and nurses on the front line, the Home Office has also lifted the restriction on the amount of hours student nurses and doctors can work in the NHS. On top of these changes, pre-registered overseas nurses who are currently required to sit their first skills test within 3 months and to pass the test within 8 months, will now have this deadline extended to the end of the year as well. This will give overseas nurses more time to pass their exams, whilst they spend the immediate term working on the front line. Home Secretary Priti Patel said: "Doctors, nurses and paramedics from all over the world are playing a leading role in the NHS’s efforts to tackle coronavirus and save lives. We owe them a great deal of gratitude for all that they do. I don’t want them distracted by the visa process. That is why I have automatically extended their visas – free of charge – for a further year. The extension to NHS visas will be automatic, there will be no fee attached and it will be exempt from the Immigration Health Surcharge. Trainee doctors and nurses will also not be limited by the number of hours they can work in the NHS during term time." >>> Visas and immigration Service and Support Centres: https://www.gov.uk/visas-and-immigration-service-and-support-centres UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) have temporarily closed Service and Support Centres (SSCs) because of coronavirus (COVID-19). These centres (do not mix them up with Sopra Steria) dealt with the limited face-to-face application such as FLR(FP)/Human Rights/Legalization NB: With other types You still need to lodge your immigration application (online) in time/lodge a valid application to preserve your immigration status. The biometrics enrolment is being deferred to a leter date. >>> Recruitment opens for 14 new immigration judges: https://apply.judicialappointments.digital/vacancy/OPwPPwNPeiNz4VmnFbNU/ No sooner is the last batch of immigration judges through the door than the authorities are seeking to recruit more. Around 40 new judges were named to the immigration and asylum chamber of the First-tier Tribunal over the last few months, but the Judicial Appointments Commission is now seeking another 14. Most of the positions are based in England and Wales, but there is one vacancy in Scotland. Applicants must have worked as a lawyer for at least five years, and are expected to have some kind of judicial or quasi-judicial experience. The salary is £112,542.

31 March 2020 - Part 2 – 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) >>> Home Office can ignore human rights claims attached to normal immigration applications: https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKUT/IAC/2020/89.html The case of MY (refusal of human rights claim) Pakistan [2020] UKUT 89 (IAC) represents yet another cutback in the rights of migrant victims of domestic abuse, and in appeal rights more generally. The Upper Tribunal has ruled that the Home Office can simply refuse to engage with a human rights claim which is not made in the particular way the department wants it made. When refusing to engage with a human rights claim submitted in the “wrong” format, the Home Office is not refusing that claim, and therefore there is no right of appeal. Some migrants will have to make very difficult decisions as a result. >>> Coronavirus (COVID-19): right to work checks: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-right-to-work-checks >>> Start-up and Innovator visa endorsing bodies: guidance - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/start-up-and-innovator-endorsing-bodies-guidance

Несмотря на пандемию Home Office и Legal Centre продолжают работу с заявителями/клиентами. Только что получен т.н. Certificate of Application (CoA) по заявлению клиента из России на натурализацию (гражданство Великобритании). Интересно то, что данный Certificate of Application (CoA) обычно выдается только после сдачи биометрики. Данный клиент Lega Centre не сдавал биометрику т.к. за день до сдачи биометрики он получил уведомление из Home Office о том, что все биометрические центры закрылись из-за COVID19. Это означает, что Home Office, тем не менее, продолжает рассмотрение заявлений и, в частности, идет навстречу заявителям. Legal Centre помогал этому клиенту на всех этапах его иммиграционного пути в Великобританию: - Предварительная консультация: https://legalcentre.org/Konsultacija-s-Advokatom.html - Получение ПМЖ (ILR): https://legalcentre.org/PMZh-Settlement-ILR.html - Получение британского гражданства: https://legalcentre.org/Grazhdanstvo-Citizenship.html Работа на всех этапах проходила по принципу полного сопровождения его заявления. Когда это было возможно, клиент всегда выбирал ускоренное (24-hour Super Premium Service) рассмотрение заявления в Home Office: https://legalcentre.org/viza-za-1-den.html Я помог ему и могу помочь Вам. Вы можете записаться на предварительную телефонную/online консультацию со мной, Антоном Ковалем, 24 часа в сутки: https://legalcentre.org/Konsultacija-s-Advokatom.html Антон Коваль Legal Centre +44(0)7791145923 (Mob/WhatsApp/Viber) +44(0)3300010342 (Office) www.legalcentre.org

>>> The UKVCAS service - Sopra Steeria UK biometrics enrolments suspended: https://www.ukvcas.co.uk/flash-message-detail?flashmessageId=950&fbclid=IwAR1v9JL4jVRp0Z5AQXWGm_DOed6jYG2PqrkGY8v6a7VqNAr3S_s_n7cpaxY How Does this Affect Me? Customers with Existing Appointments If you already have an existing appointment, you do not have to do anything. UKVCAS will automatically reschedule your appointment. Initially appointments will be rescheduled for 6 weeks ahead of your original appointment. Please monitor your UKVCAS account to find out when your new appointment has been scheduled for. If you can’t make the rescheduled appointment, you can cancel this online and receive a full refund. However, you will not be able to rebook until the online booking system reopens. Alternatively, you can wait until the online booking system reopens when you will be able to see all available appointments. Please regularly check this website for updates on the service status. New Customers New customers are being asked to register your account as normal at our website. You will receive a prompt to register, from the ‘Book your Appointment’ link on the UKVI pages of GOV.UK. Please regularly check this website for further updates on the service status. Impact on Visa Applications UKVI has now issued guidance that all foreign nationals whose permission to stay in the UK expired from 24th January 2020 may access a visa extension until 31st May 2020 therefore you will not be disadvantaged in any way due to the COVID-19 crisis. >>> UK BA Coronavirus immigration update The Home Office points out the following: - Applicants are advised to use Email when communicating with the Coronavirus Immigration Team, as that is where they have greater resources as staff can work from home. This way they can prioritize the helpline for the most vulnerable individuals. - Leave to remain extensions - the Home Office will be issuing specific further guidance for the applications during the COVID19 period - Right to work checks can be conducted via Skype - the Guidance is yet to be published - The requirement to enrol biometrics within 45 days has been waived and this will be confirmed in guidance - Where an application is submitted without SELT or a Life in the UK test, the application won't be rejected as invalid. Again, there will be guidance on this issue. Applications can be made in order to protect 3C leave, and the UK BA will put the application on hold until they are able to do so

30 March 2020 - Part 2 – 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) >>> The UKVCAS service - Sopra Steeria UK biometrics enrolments suspended: https://www.ukvcas.co.uk/flash-message-detail?flashmessageId=950 How Does this Affect Me? Customers with Existing Appointments If you already have an existing appointment, you do not have to do anything. UKVCAS will automatically reschedule your appointment. Initially appointments will be rescheduled for 6 weeks ahead of your original appointment. Please monitor your UKVCAS account to find out when your new appointment has been scheduled for. If you can’t make the rescheduled appointment, you can cancel this online and receive a full refund. However, you will not be able to rebook until the online booking system reopens. Alternatively, you can wait until the online booking system reopens when you will be able to see all available appointments. Please regularly check this website for updates on the service status. New Customers New customers are being asked to register your account as normal at our website. You will receive a prompt to register, from the ‘Book your Appointment’ link on the UKVI pages of GOV.UK. Please regularly check this website for further updates on the service status. Impact on Visa Applications UKVI has now issued guidance that all foreign nationals whose permission to stay in the UK expired from 24th January 2020 may access a visa extension until 31st May 2020 therefore you will not be disadvantaged in any way due to the COVID-19 crisis. >>> UK BA Coronavirus immigration update The Home Office points out the following: - Applicants are advised to use Email when communicating with the Coronavirus Immigration Team, as that is where they have greater resources as staff can work from home. This way they can prioritize the helpline for the most vulnerable individuals. - Leave to remain extensions - the Home Office will be issuing specific further guidance for the applications during the COVID19 period - Right to work checks can be conducted via Skype - the Guidance is yet to be published - The requirement to enrol biometrics within 45 days has been waived and this will be confirmed in guidance - Where an application is submitted without SELT or a Life in the UK test, the application won't be rejected as invalid. Again, there will be guidance on this issue. Applications can be made in order to protect 3C leave, and the UK BA will put the application on hold until they are able to do so

27 March 2020 - Part 2 – 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 decision waiting times: applications outside the UK: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/visa-decision-waiting-times-applications-outside-the-uk?utm_source=432f08ee-18e7-46aa-81ec-9b9f255ebe04&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_content=immediate Due to the operational impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19), most of the UK’s visa applications centres are currently closed. All visa decision waiting times will be delayed until further notice. The ‘priority service’ and ‘super priority service’ are suspended for applications made outside the UK.

27 March 2020 - Part 2 – 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 decision waiting times: applications outside the UK: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/visa-decision-waiting-times-applications-outside-the-uk?utm_source=432f08ee-18e7-46aa-81ec-9b9f255ebe04&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_content=immediate Due to the operational impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19), most of the UK’s visa applications centres are currently closed. All visa decision waiting times will be delayed until further notice. The ‘priority service’ and ‘super priority service’ are suspended for applications made outside the UK.

Только что подал заявление клиента на гражданство, AN. Взял биометрический слот ему на следующий вторник, 31 марта 2020 года. Открыты только основные биометрические центры, т.е. Лондон, Бирмингем, Кройдон и некоторые другие. Слоты в основном есть начиная с 06 апреля 2020 года. Делюсь информацией.

Пожалуйста, стараюсь.

26 March 2020 - Part 2 – 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) >>> Home Office aims to completely rewrite “confusing” Immigration Rules by January 2021: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/simplifying-the-immigration-rules-a-response The Home Office has accepted the need to simplify the “complex and confusing” Immigration Rules and says that the work is already underway. The department says that “we have already begun the process of reviewing, simplifying and consolidating the Rules”. The Law Commission’s report, published in January 2020, made 41 recommendations for redrafting the “overly complex and unworkable” regulations at the heart of the UK immigration system. The Home Office says that it is accepting 24 of them and partially accepting the other 17. In terms of overall structure, the department’s proposal is broadly in line with the Law Commission’s. The simplified Rules would start with rules that apply across the board, such as how to make a valid visa application and the general grounds for refusal, followed by the rules specific to each visa. The document includes some examples of how these route-specific rules could be drafted. The examples retain the much-derided system of “alphabet soup”, whereby the Rules are not numbered 1, 2, 3 etc but by letters indicating the section and then numbers: "Validity requirements for Parent of a Child Student PC.1.1. An applicant seeking to come to the UK as the Parent of a Child Student must have obtained permission to do so before their arrival in the UK. PC.1.2. An applicant who is in the UK at the date of application must have, or have last been granted, permission to come to or stay in the UK as the Parent of a Child Student." This is despite the Home Office purporting to accept recommendation 14: “paragraphs should be numbered in a numerical sequence”. The Law Commission also suggested, somewhat tentatively in the end, that there could also be separate “booklets” gathering together all the rules that apply to a particular visa. In other words, bringing together the general and specific rules into one document. The Home Office response to this is balanced: "We will continue to explore the idea of a booklet for each category of application… We think that the booklet approach, alongside the consolidated Rules, may cause confusion and risks material becoming inconsistent." The department has accepted the idea of a simplification committee. The external stakeholders to be invited are almost all lawyers. “Our aim”, says Foster, “is to complete this overhaul by January 2021”. He also writes in the foreword: “For far too long, users have struggled to understand the confusing and complex Immigration Rules”. The minister is to be commended for his candour, given that his party has been in charge of the Rules for almost a decade.

Каждый день приносит хорошие новости клиентам Legal Centre © Очередная клиентка Legal Centre из Украины получила новенький британский паспорт. Иногда приходится помогать клиентам во время заявлений на получение первых британских паспортов. Британская система даже в таком, казалась бы, простом случае, может быть довольно запутанной. В данном случае работа велась с UK Passport Agency. Все хорошо, что хорошо кончается. Как результат, клиентка получали свой первый британский паспорт буквально за пару недель. Я помог ей и могу помочь Вам. Вы можете записаться на предварительную телефонную/online консультацию со мной, Антоном Ковалем, 24 часа в сутки: https://legalcentre.org/Konsultacija-s-Advokatom.html Антон Коваль Legal Centre +44(0)7791145923 (Mob/WhatsApp/Viber) +44(0)3300010342 (Office) www.legalcentre.org

Visas and immigration Service and Support Centres have been closed until further notice: https://www.gov.uk/visas-and-immigration-service-and-support-centres These centres would usually accept a face-to-face appointment for the FLR(FP) and Human Rights applications. Part of the Sopra Steria biomertics enrolment centers are still accepting the biometrics enrollments via their main core centres around the UK: https://www.ukvcas.co.uk/flash-message-detail?flashmessageId=56249

Life in the UK Test Centres closure announcement: https://www.lituktestbooking.co.uk/lituk-web/ "COVID-19: Important Information for Candidates Life in the UK Test centres will be closed in line with official requirements of the UK Government from 21 March until 13 April 2020 as a precautionary measure against coronavirus (COVID-19) to help protect the health of test takers and staff . If you have booked a test to take place during this period, your test booking will be rescheduled automatically to a date after 13 April 2020. If you are booking a new test, test dates are still available from 13 April 2020".

Life in the UK Centres closure announcement: https://www.lituktestbooking.co.uk/lituk-web/ "COVID-19: Important Information for Candidates Life in the UK Test centres will be closed in line with official requirements of the UK Government from 21 March until 13 April 2020 as a precautionary measure against coronavirus (COVID-19) to help protect the health of test takers and staff . If you have booked a test to take place during this period, your test booking will be rescheduled automatically to a date after 13 April 2020. If you are booking a new test, test dates are still available from 13 April 2020".

Приветствую, Сегодня была консультация с клиентом. У него урезали зарплату в 2 раза. Но он все равно проходит т.к. уровень достаточный даже в такой ситуации. Для тех, кто employed - говорили про 80% зарплаты - будет перечислять государство. Но есть большое НО ! Похоже, только тем, кто не ходит на работу. Для self-employed ситуация пока не ясна с точки зрения помощи государства. Им пока государство только £94 фунта в неделю может выплатить, как universal credit. Тем не менее, кризис в UK случился под самый конец финансового года, и те self-employed, кто будут подавать отчеты скорее всего пройдут без проблем, при условии что они заработали не менее £18 600, т.к. к моменту начала карантина в UK прошло практически 11.5 месяцев финансового года. Если карантин закончится до лета то, в принципе, так или иначе большинство справится. Тем не менее, будут люди, кто рассчитывал добрать £18 600 по self-employment за этот период карантина, разумеется. Я думаю, что Home Office, возможно, предложит вариант т.н. adequate income, как для других категорий (т.е. там доход меньше, чем £18 600 в год). Опять же, каждый случай индивидуален. Буду сообщать новости ASAP.

Немного более детализированная информация из Home Office: - Заявления внутри Великобритании: http://legalcentre.org/files/24-03-Covid-19-UKVI-Factsheets.-UK-Temp-Residents-and-Visa-holders.pdf - Заявления за пределами Великобритании: http://legalcentre.org/files/24-03-Covid-19-UKVI-Factsheet.-International-Visa-Customers.pdf

Детальная информация по текущий ситуации, т.н. "Guidance": https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-advice-for-uk-visa-applicants-and-temporary-uk-residents?utm_source=31202869-fd45-4fbc-bc79-e169265b1978&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_content=immediate В дополнение к вчерашней новости вот этот пункт вызывает интерес, т.к. в период до 31 мая 2020 года разрешает переход на иммиграционную категорию без выезда за пределы Великобритании: "If you’re applying to stay in the UK long-term During these unique circumstances you’ll be able to apply from the UK to switch to a long-term UK visa until 31 May. This includes applications where you would usually need to apply for a visa from your home country. You’ll need to meet the same visa requirements and pay the UK application fee. This includes those whose leave has already been automatically extended to 31 March 2020. You can apply online. The terms of your leave will remain the same until your application is decided." Но, как всегда, нет четкости и списка кому это можно сделать. Например, подразумевается что возможно перейти с гостевой визы на визу жены британца или рабочую визу, или студенческую визу, или визу престарелого родителя и т.п. Приветствую, В Вашем случае скорее всего нет на данном этапе, т.к. Ваша виза заканчивается до действия автоматического продления по (гостевым) визам, которые действует до 31-05-2020. И тем более Вы не в Великобритании. +1... Просто поступили вопросы типа "А когда мне бесплатно продлят визу жены на 2.5 года" ? Увы, бесплатный сыр бывает только в мышеловке. Тем более центры по приему биометрики работают пока. Мне даже вчера позвонили из биометрического центра в Эксетере в 14.00 (юго-запад страны), и попросили клиентку прийти пораньше, если может. Я брал ей слот на 17.00, а в этом центре получился недобор заявителей и образовалась "big bap", как мне сказали по телефону. Другими словами, сотрудники этого центра в Эксетере тоже люди и захотели пойти домой раньше :-) Это уже второй случай у меня за год.

Каждый день приносит хорошие новости клиентам Legal Centre © Сегодня еще одна клиентка Legal Centre с Украины стала британской гражданкой. Legal Centre помогал этой клиентке наследующих этапах ее иммиграционного пути в Великобританию: - Предварительная консультация: https://legalcentre.org/Konsultacija-s-Advokatom.html - Получение британского гражданства: https://legalcentre.org/Grazhdanstvo-Citizenship.html До обращения в Legal Centre у клиентки был сложная иммиграционная история. Работа на всех этапах проходила по принципу полного сопровождения ее заявления. Заявление рассмотрели очень быстро. Я помог ей и могу помочь Вам. Вы можете записаться на предварительную телефонную/online консультацию со мной, Антоном Ковалем, 24 часа в сутки: https://legalcentre.org/Konsultacija-s-Advokatom.html Антон Коваль Legal Centre +44(0)7791145923 (Mob/WhatsApp/Viber) +44(0)3300010342 (Office) www.legalcentre.org

25 March 2020 - Part 2 – 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) >>> Homd Office COVID19 Policy update: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/visas-extended-for-those-currently-unable-to-return-home-due-to-covid-19 Visas extended to 31 May for individuals who are currently unable to return home at the end of their visa. >>> Correspondence from UKVI re reporting sponsored migrants working from home: "... (The UK Border Agency) can confirm that sponsoring employers will not have to report a change of location for all sponsored migrants working from home. >>> Prison time doesn’t count as “residence” in establishing enhanced EU law protection against deportation: https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2020/406.html The court found that the time spent in prison does not positively count toward the ten-year residence period required to benefit from enhanced legal protection against deportation as an EU citizen. >>> Upper Tribunal says no duty of candour on Home Office in statutory appeals: https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKUT/IAC/2020/88.html In Nimo (appeals: duty of disclosure : Ghana) [2020] UKUT 88 (IAC) the Upper Tribunal, consisting of Mr Justice Lane and Mr Ockelton, has held that the duty of candour applying to parties in judicial review proceedings does not apply in statutory appeals and there is no obligation in marriage of convenience cases for the Home Office to disclose Form ICD.4605, which sets out the interviewer’s comments: " (1) In an immigration appeal, the Secretary of State’s duty of disclosure is not knowingly to mislead: CM (EM country guidance; disclosure) Zimbabwe CG [2013] UKUT 59, citing R v SSHD ex parte Kerrouche No 1[1997] Imm AR 610. (2) The Upper Tribunal was wrong to hold in Miah (interviewer’s comments; disclosure; fairness) [2014] UKUT 515 that, in every appeal involving an alleged marriage of convenience, the interviewer’s comments in the Secretary of State’s form ICD.4605 must be disclosed to the appellant and the Tribunal. No such general requirement is imposed by the respondent’s duty of disclosure or by rule 24 of the Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) Rules 2014."

Visas extended util the 31st May 2020 for those currently unable to return home due to COVID-19 : https://www.gov.uk/government/news/visas-extended-for-those-currently-unable-to-return-home-due-to-covid-19?utm_source=e042435d-2e21-4022-a0c4-448c75757472&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_content=immediate Обратите внимание на выделенную фразу, а именно КОМУ будут продлеваться визы автоматом и ДЛЯ ЧЕГО. Чуда не произошло. И поэтому : "Those who contact the Home Office for these visa extensions will be expected to return to their home countries as soon as possible once flight and border restrictions are lifted." То есть для тех, кто здесь по рабочей визе, супружеской визе, подает на продление, ПМЖ и т.п. - должны подавать стандартные заявления. В то же время, временно разрешен нестандартный переход с визы на визу, без выезда из UK: "People can apply to switch routes, such as from Tier 4 (student) to Tier 2 (General Worker), whilst remaining in the UK. UKVI will continue to process applications as quickly as possible, however some applications may take longer than usual due to COVID-19 related operational pressures." Детальный анализ - завтра.

Да, возможно. Например, человек прожил в Великобритании 10 лет, и потом уехал из страны на долгое время (несколько лет, например). На основании текущих правил (параграф 276B) нет ограничения по срокам отсутствия их Великобритании после того, как человек прожил в Великобритании 10 лет (и де-факто выполнил правила для получения ПМЖ по категории 10 Year Long Residence). Например, гражданин Канады в свое время прожил в Великобритании 10 лет, потом в Канаду на 14 лет. По возвращению в Великобританию этот гражданин Канады может претендовать на получение ПМЖ по категории Long Residence.

24 March 2020 - Part 2 – 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) >>> Can I apply for Settlement under the Long Residence/10 Year lawful residence Rules retrospectively ? The answer is apparently, "Yes". Under the paragraph 276B of the Rules once an applicant has accumulated the 10 years of lawful residence, and then left the UK, it no longer matters how long the applicant was absent from the UK. So, it is possible to return into the UK after literary years of absence from the UK and apply for Settlement retrospectively.