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Hi,
A friend of mine has ILR and she's married and has been in the UK for about 6-7 years.
She's visited her family in Ukraine with her husband before but this year she is travelling on her own.
I'm trying to find out what she needs to do to travel and return?
Can she just come and go?
Does she need a visa to leave and come back home to UK?
I've had a search around but most seem to relate to actually applying for ILR rather than rules when someone already has it.
She just wants to visit her parents in Ukraine for a week in summer.
Any help would be much appreciated
Many thanks,
Paul.

probedb wrote:Hi,
A friend of mine has ILR and she's married and has been in the UK for about 6-7 years.
She's visited her family in Ukraine with her husband before but this year she is travelling on her own.
I'm trying to find out what she needs to do to travel and return?
Can she just come and go?
Does she need a visa to leave and come back home to UK?
I've had a search around but most seem to relate to actually applying for ILR rather than rules when someone already has it.
She just wants to visit her parents in Ukraine for a week in summer.
Any help would be much appreciated
Many thanks,
Paul.

I don't know about going to Ukraine (is she Ukrainian?).

Coming back to UK just waltz back in - that's what having ILR confers. She may face the odd question (my wife was almost always questioned).

noajthan wrote: I don't know about going to Ukraine (is she Ukrainian?).

Coming back to UK just waltz back in - that's what having ILR confers. She may face the odd question (my wife was almost always questioned).

Many thanks, yes she's Ukrainian and wants to visit her parents

probedb wrote:Many thanks, yes she's Ukrainian and wants to visit her parents

Sounds like she's all set then.

noajthan wrote:

probedb wrote:Many thanks, yes she's Ukrainian and wants to visit her parents

Sounds like she's all set then.

Excellent, many thanks for the information She's so scared about not being let back into the UK.

probedb wrote:Excellent, many thanks for the information She's so scared about not being let back into the UK.

Travelling with a valid passport (with at least 6 months before expiry date, just to keep airline happy) plus ILR is all my non-EEA wife ever used before she was naturalised.
She always seemed to face 'routine questions' from the IO (so be prepared for that), but she always re-entered UK.

noajthan wrote:Travelling with a valid passport (with at least 6 months before expiry date, just to keep airline happy) plus ILR is all my non-EEA wife ever used before she was naturalised.
She always seemed to face 'routine questions' from the IO (so be prepared for that), but she always re-entered UK.

That's a big help, many thanks. She's wanting to become naturalised too, just need to get the valid English qualification sorted first, not that she'd have any problems with it, but she needs it to apply

probedb wrote:

noajthan wrote:Travelling with a valid passport (with at least 6 months before expiry date, just to keep airline happy) plus ILR is all my non-EEA wife ever used before she was naturalised.
She always seemed to face 'routine questions' from the IO (so be prepared for that), but she always re-entered UK.

That's a big help, many thanks. She's wanting to become naturalised too, just need to get the valid English qualification sorted first, not that she'd have any problems with it, but she needs it to apply

Don't forget she's lose her Ukrainian citizenship on naturalisation, I know some 'hide' it and carry both passports but the Ukes are clamping down now I'm told.

Wanderer wrote:Don't forget she's lose her Ukrainian citizenship on naturalisation, I know some 'hide' it and carry both passports but the Ukes are clamping down now I'm told.

OK, thanks again for the info