How to immigrate after studying in the UK?

How to immigrate after studying in Britain

According to the current immigration law in the UK, the popular interpretation is permanent residence 10 years-any applicant who has lived in the UK continuously and legally 10 years can apply for the British Green Card (ILR). According to the data of immigrants studying in Britain from all over China, there are many student applicants who came from China to study 14 ~ 20 15 years ago.

/kloc-what is 0/0 year permanent residence?

In fact, the correct statement of "10 year permanent residence" on weekdays should be "permanent residence based on long-term residence in the UK". So how long will it take to stay in the UK for a long time? Yes, it is 10 year. The Guide to Long-term Residence Policy clearly states that from the day someone enters the UK, if he has lived in the UK legally for more than 65,438+00 years, he has the right to apply for permanent residence in the UK.

It should be noted here that the period of 10 years must be calculated from the day when the person enters the UK, not the day when the person gets a visa. Since the validity of a visa is generally earlier than the date when someone actually enters the UK, I need to declare it here. Strictly speaking, applicants can actually submit their applications 28 days in advance, that is to say, they have the right to apply for permanent residence if they have legally resided in the UK for 9 years 1 1 month and 2 days.

What is a legal visa?

Readers may have noticed two key points: "continuity" and "legitimacy". It is true that it may be easy to live in Britain for 10 years, but it is not necessarily easy to meet the requirements of continuing legality. Let's first look at what is "legal". There is a very simple standard here, that is, as long as the visa is issued by the British government (whether inside or outside the country), it is considered as a legal visa. The applicant is very sure about the general visa type. As we all know, student visa, work visa, spouse visa and other visa types are all counted under the legal visa type, but here I particularly emphasize that you should not ignore the "tourist visa". Tourist visas are excluded from the 10 permanent visa application by most people because they have no long-term residency, but many applicants ignore that tourist visas are also one of the "legal visas" and are included in the scope of 10 permanent visas.

What is a continuous visa?

Conceptually, the British government defines continuity as "within 10 year, the number of days for an applicant to leave the country for a single time shall not exceed 180 days, and the total number of days for leaving the country within 10 year shall not exceed 539 days".

The total number of days is 539, which is easy to understand. There are two aspects to pay attention to when providing single 180 days:

(1) continuity and timing in Britain;

(2) continuity and timeliness outside Britain.

Generally speaking, continuity in China is well guaranteed, and applicants can be considered as consistent with continuity as long as they guarantee that their visas will be issued at each renewal before the current visa expires. 10' s permanent residence guide even states that, in theory, as long as the applicant submits a new visa within 28 days after the expiration of the existing visa, it will remain continuous. In most cases handled by Peterson's lawyers, applying for a new visa after the visa expires is mostly regarded as "neutral" by the Immigration Bureau. If the details of the legal provisions are not clearly stated when submitting the application, the application will be rejected.

Continuity outside the country can be understood as: applicants must hold a British legal visa every time they leave the UK, and they must also hold a British legal visa every time they return to the UK (the visa types for leaving and entering the UK can be different), and the departure time cannot exceed 180 days.

The requirement for days is a hard indicator. If the applicant's motivation is to strive for permanent residence of 65,438+00 years, then these two indicators (65,438+080 days and 539 days) should not exceed the standard. Of course, the applicant can provide relevant materials to try to prove that it is necessary to exceed the departure days, but the possibility of successful application may also be reduced.

Finally, I would like to remind you that although the article has fully explained the knowledge about how to immigrate after studying in the UK, everyone may encounter different problems, and everyone still needs to treat them reasonably according to their own situation to avoid falling into misunderstanding.