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Settled Status is a similar type of immigration status in the UK, known as Permanent Residence Permit or Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR). Living in the UK for more than five years under the EU settlement scheme or with pre-settled status, of which the time spent abroad for any 12 months is less than six months (rolling basis) is eligible to apply for settled status.

FAMS LAW’s qualified immigration lawyer would be happy to help for your successful task.

We will go through in detail including the following matters:

• Your length of UK residency;
• Whether you are in the UK with pre-settled status;
• Your travel history;
• How long you stayed outside the UK during these 5 years residency;
• Whether your continuous residence is broken;
• Your all the required and supportive documents;
• Your eligibility to apply for settled status;
• Applying with partner and children;
• Your entitlement after obtaining settled status.

Please arrange an appointment to speak to our expert immigration lawyer for more advice and help.

You can apply to Register your child under 18 as a British citizen if you live in the Channel Islands, Isle of Man, a British Overseas Territory or if you live elsewhere and want to apply by post.

• Registering is a way of applying for British citizenship
• If your child is over 18 years old, they’ll need to apply as an adult
• If your child was born outside the UK
• your child has lived in the UK for the last 10 years
• the application process
• if you or their other parent became ‘settled in the UK’ after they were born
• when the child was born whether child’s biological father is a
• British citizen or settled in the UK
• have British citizenship
• have settled status from the EU Settlement Scheme
• have indefinite leave
• have right of abode
• have permanent residence 
• are an Irish citizen living in the UK

For more detail information and advice, please speak to our expert immigration advisor.

Upon obtaining Naturalisation certificate or Citizenship, you will be eligible to apply for a UK Passport.

This is the final and happy step in the journey of becoming a British Citizen. UK passports can absolutely confirm your British citizenship status and also act as a travel document that will allow you to travel in and out of the UK without being subject to immigration controls.

Our FAMS LAW expert immigration lawyer is here to help you with detail advice including following issues for your final happiness.

• Who can apply, either child or adult
• The time it may take
• The ways to apply
• The passport interview
• If you have a non-British passport
• The required documents

FAMS LAW is well-placed to help you.

Applying for a British Citizenship is crucial and exciting moment in your immigration life in the UK. British citizenship can be achieved through birth or by applying for naturalisation if you are 18 years or older. You must demonstrate that you have held Indefinite Leave to Remain or Settled Status in the UK for a minimum of three years, five years, or 10 years lawful residence in order to qualify for British naturalisation. You also must have maintained a clean record in accordance with UK law, including immigration regulations.

We are well-organised to help you and to get your highest success in your immigration in the UK.

We will go through each of the following in detail to make a hassle free and successful application for your naturalisation.

• Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR)
• Settled Status
• Whether you are a British Overseas Territories Citizen, a British National (Overseas), a British Overseas citizen, a British subject, or a British protected person.
• Age
• Your marital status
• Continuous Residence
• Absence from the UK and your travel history for certain period
• English Language Proficiency
• Life in the UK Test
• Good Character issues
• Any criminality, terrorism
• Any financial soundness
• Any notoriety, deception and dishonesty
• Any breach or violations of UK immigration rules, in the applicant’s history.
• Any offence, points, conviction (spent or unspent), or warnings
• Any CJJ on the record
• Any debt including NHS
• Any benefit fraud or fraudulent activities
• Fess
• Whether you can travel while you are waiting for your Citizenship application to be processed and
• What you’ll need to do after your application is successful.

For your rapid success and more detail information, please speak to our qualified immigration lawyer/Attorneys.

Our Expert Immigration lawyer/ Attorneys would be happy to help you to make your Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) application flawlessly. You may be asked to provide to FAMS LAW all the relevant and important documents in order to process your application smoothly. We will take the following matters into our consideration for a successful application on your behalf.

Your visa categories you are from i.e. spouse visa, Civil Partner visa, Unmarried Partner visa (after five or ten years), dependent Relatives Visa, either Child, Parent, or Adult , business/working/investment visas, EEA nationals and dependants, UK Ancestry visa, Long residence (after ten years of legal residence in the UK), Long residence (after ten years of legal residence in the UK).

• You might be able to apply for settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme if you or your family member is a citizen of the EU, EEA, or Switzerland.
• Whether your partner has died, or your relationship ended because of domestic violence.
• Whether you pass the Life in the UK Test
• How much time you spent outside the UK
• Do you satisfy an English language requirement
• You have been residing in the United Kingdom continuously and lawfully
• Your lawful residence is unbroken
• Whether you did anything against the public interest
• Whether there are any general grounds for refusing your application (such as a relevant criminal conviction); and
• Your personal history (e.g. character, conduct, associations, and employment record)
• You are not in the United Kingdom in breach of immigration laws.

For your rapid success and more detail information, please speak to our qualified immigration lawyer/Attorneys.

Following your leave to remain in the UK lawfully for 10 years, you may be eligible to apply for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR). 10-year lawful long residence route of indefinite leave to remain (ILR) offers a path for permanent residency or settlement in the UK. It gives you the right to live, work and study here for as long as you like and apply for benefits if you’re eligible. Upon obtaining it, you are at some point may be eligible to apply for British citizenship and then British passport.

FAMS LAW is well-renowned and would be happy to assist you for your successful application.

Our qualified immigration lawyer/Attorneys will advise you in detail including the following matters.

• Your eligibility check;
• Requirements for 10 years long residence;
• When to apply;
• The process of making application;
• Required documents;
• Updated application fee;
• The time Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) lasts for;
• your continued residence in the UK;
• evidence of accommodation;
• tenancy agreements or mortgage statements;
• travel tickets and receipts;
• utility bills, evidence of education or employment,
• bank statements and your biometric information.

Please arrange appointment for more detail information and help.

If you arrived in the on-Fiancé visa, you may switch it to the UK Spouse visa before your fiancé visa expired.

Our highly skilled immigration advisor or Attorneys can assist you to make a successful application on your behalf to switch from Fiancé visa to UK Spouse visa. We will carefully advise and assist you in detail including all requirements for a better success.

• Once arrival on Fiancé visa in the UK, check what you must do and apply before expiry of your visa;
• Whether your marriage in the UK whilst on a Fiancé Visa needs to be in accordance with UK law;
• Bear in mind please, what you can and cannot do on fiancé visa in the UK;
• Whether you need to wait until your fiancé visa expired;
• None of you, must be on visitor visa;
• Whether you legally married;
• Produce your marriage certificate in order to process your FLR (M);
• Please check your husband, wife or civil partner either:
  • British citizen
  • Person with indefinite leave to remain
  • Person with settled status (EU)
  • Person with refugee status or humanitarian protection
• Please meet all eligibility requirement;
• Please satisfy the accommodation requirement;
• Please meet the financial requirement and pay the required fees including updated IHS fees.

For more detail and genuine advice, please speak to our expert Immigration lawyer/Attorneys.

Our qualified Attorneys/Immigration Advisor would be happy to help you for making your UK Spouse Visa application if your Spouse is outside the UK but is planning to live with you in the UK.

• Whether you are eligible to sponsor your partner; 
• UK spouse visas (Out-country/ Entry Clearance Application);
• Extending the visa for your family (in-country application)/ FLR (M);
• Pay the Home Office Application fees;
• Need to check you paid correct Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS);
• Suitability Requirement;
• Relationship Requirements, age and you and your partner are not within a prohibited degree of relationship;
• Whether you and your partner are legally married in a marriage that is recognised in the UK;
• Your marriage in the UK or outside the UK;
• Any previous relationship has broken down permanently;
• You and your partner intend to live together permanently in the UK;
• There is adequate accommodation for you and any dependents;
• Satisfy the relationship genuine and subsisting;
• Your whole immigration history;
• Financial requirements;
• Satisfy the sources of income, you may include to meet the financial requirement;
  • Employment income
  • Self-employment income
  • Dividend income
  • Cash savings
  • Pension income
  • Property rental income
  • Other sources of income
  • The sponsor receives a Permitted Benefit
• Please check which categories you are in;
• Meet the “minimum income threshold”;
• Expected to increase from £29,000 to:
  • £34,500 (may be between “Spring 2024” and beginning of “2025”) and
  • £38,700 in “Early 2025” onward may be.
  • Please bear in mind whether any child needs visa, can be applied at the same time with the non-UK partner
  • Please pay the updated fees for every child who needs visa
• Language requirement A1-A2-B1 accordingly;
• English Language test may be exempted depends on your circumstances;
• Valid TB Test Certificate;
• UK Spouse Visa Supporting Documents Checklist;
• UK Spouse Visa Processing and waiting for Home Office Decision;
• Duration of UK Spouse Visa;
• The rights on the UK Spouse Visa;
• The destination of obtained UK Spouse Visa.

Please ask our expert immigration lawyer or advisor for more detail and genuine advice and help.