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capricorn22
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ILR for the family

Post by capricorn22 » Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:19 pm

I am getting confused about simple question.

I'll be eligible for ILR in November 2007 as I'll have completed 5 years on work permit by that time.

Will my wife and a daughter get it with me if they have 3 years on dependent visa at that time?

Some of my friends insist that they'll need to wait untill they've got 5 years in the UK for ILR.

Thank you for the answer.
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olisun
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Post by olisun » Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:37 pm

they will get it at the same time as you...

Citizenship requirements are 5yrs from the date of first entry into the UK but if you get your citizenship first then it's 3 yrs for your wife...

was your child born in the UK?
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Post by John » Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:06 pm

Do appreciate that you and your wife will now need to have passed the Citizenship Test in order to get ILR, as announced yesterday, and discussed in this topic.
John
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Post by capricorn22 » Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:04 am

Thank you for your reply.

My child wasn't born in the UK.What's more, she'll be nearly 19 at that time.But I still hope that she'll get ILR as she'll be going to high school (full time education-she's going to take a gap year deliberately despite she's already been offered a place at Cambridge university) and she'll be fully dependent on her parents.

I wish John, that this Citizenship for ILR was the only change to ILR rules and they didn't introduce anything like point system with requirements for the employer to have a labour market test done.

This Citizenship test is really very simple and I don't worry about it at all.
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Post by John » Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:25 am

This Citizenship test is really very simple and I don't worry about it at all.
Do appreciate that your wife and your 19yo daughter will also have to pass the Citizenship Test in order to get ILR.

Is your daughter still dependent upon you? For example, is she at University and you are supporting her?
John
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Post by capricorn22 » Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:31 pm

My daughter is at her last A-level year in high school now and she is turning 18 this December. She is supposed to go to university next September. But as long as she wasn't lucky enough to get ILR this year with me ("thanks" to 4 - 5 year changes), I would have to pay an overseas tuition fee which is a bit higher than I can afford.

So we decided that she'd stay one extra year at high school (which is possible) in the hope that she'd get ILR with me next November, although she'll be 18 years and 11 months old but still going to school and living with us.

Do you think, John, this strategy will work?
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