tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020146007708530033.post6300482237461064799..comments2023-12-19T05:27:09.911+00:00Comments on <b>BritCits</b> : stevenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08698922877414169622noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020146007708530033.post-47114505213534309512014-02-10T22:18:22.341+00:002014-02-10T22:18:22.341+00:00http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26024375
What a joke...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26024375<br /><br />What a joke! I watched Panorama tonight and there's mass fraud taking place with TOEIC tests! ETS have been kicked out now. You will not believe this: people sitting in for others in tests - fake sitters who are local English people taking exams for foreign students - IN LONDON! -, administrators telling students the answers to multiple choice questions out loud! These are approved-by-Home-Office colleges!! All found out by independent investigators, NOT the Home Office! How low can the Home Office go? The Home Office are negligent in their role as over-seeing immigration regulatory procedures - corruption happening under their own eyes. Found out and publicised in the mainstream press and on BBC1 primetime. <br /><br />And then they punish genuine families! It's an absolute disgrace. Andrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020146007708530033.post-80082290530560559572014-02-07T18:16:06.485+00:002014-02-07T18:16:06.485+00:00I've just received the refusal letter by the H...I've just received the refusal letter by the Home Office - refusing my Thai partner, and our two children an extension of the UK settlement visa they gained in 2011. <br /><br />Long story short:- we have enough funds - my salary is significantly higher than the £18.6K threshold, and significantly large savings.<br /><br />We have never broken any of the terms of the settlement visa, nor any UK laws, nor claimed any benefits at all. <br /><br />Our refusal reasons were:-<br /><br />- her English certificate was gained from an authority in Thailand that is no longer a UK Visas and Immigration recognised provider (it was when my partner got the settlement visa in 2011 though!)<br /><br />- we wouldn't face extreme hardship or serious risk to health in Thailand, therefore we must all go and live there.<br /><br />The second reason is absurd and worrying. The UK gave my partner and our children a route to settle in the UK, then tell us two years later to settle in Thailand! We have done nothing wrong. We merely wished to extend the settlement visa as it was due to expire. We have enough finances. We have jobs. We are not a burden on the UK. We have settled here. The UK granted us visas to settle here. Now they say settle in Thailand. Why grant the settlement visas in the first place? If it's the case that we should return to Thailand because we basically won't die if we do, is this a normal reason? I can't work there, and we'd give up our jobs if we were kicked out of the UK.Andrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020146007708530033.post-24482142804375066372013-08-17T17:22:31.350+01:002013-08-17T17:22:31.350+01:00THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE, just an idea;
Get your ...THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE, just an idea;<br /><br />Get your partner over as a visitor. Consider representing yourself, then use Article 6 if they try to remove your partner (You cannot address the court as you will have to follow your partner/wife/hubbie abroad.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020146007708530033.post-35684142536876163692013-08-17T09:25:43.999+01:002013-08-17T09:25:43.999+01:00Anonymous, that is the exact problem we all face. ...Anonymous, that is the exact problem we all face. Where will it end. Thats one of the reason's I refuse to let my wife leave the UK. They can't deport her, and they know it. They backed down on reporting conditions when I told them to issue removal instructions.<br />http://pearsall.eu/2013/04/<br />See “Failure to Report” / “ISE343″ and Response to challenging the ISE 343.<br />Sadly, despite equality, we are in a better situation since my spouse is the non-EEA MOTHER. If it were me who was the non-EEA it would be harder to argue like this... (sexism, but everyone knows a child relies on their mother more).<br /><br />Still, it doesn't remove the fact that both TFEU and UNCRC gives a child the RIGHT to direct contact with both parents!Waynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08649580371950293789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020146007708530033.post-20039124228362587442013-08-01T13:06:26.791+01:002013-08-01T13:06:26.791+01:00Regarding cases like Sarah's, one aspect that ...Regarding cases like Sarah's, one aspect that doesn't seem to have been raised much is this. Supposing, this winter, Sarah finds a job paying 19,000 GBP a year and returns, without her husband, to the UK. Sounds good? But what if the government not only manages to overturn the recent ruling on the financial requirement, but increases that requirement to 20,000 GBP (or even higher -they have previous, after all) next April? Is this something to be concerned about?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com