Hi: We live (and have lived for quite a while) outside the UK. If/when my husband gets a Settlement visa, how long can we wait before we enter the UK together? Is it possible for him to wait and apply for jobs and once a job is secured, then move together? Is it neccessary to have accomodation ...

JAJ wrote: Do your children have British style birth certificates as well as British passports?

Yes - one of them does have it. For the younger one, we can get it fairly easily.

Yes I have a British passport - so do our two children (we got their passports made in Dubai). I was born in 1975. My parents were (at the time of my birth) and still are Pakistani citizens.

Hello: Here's my situation: I was born in Britain but my family moved to Pakistan shortly after that. I got married in 1998 to my Pakistani husband and we have been living in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) for the past eight years. We have two wonderful kids - one's 6 and the other is 3. We would like ...