Questions and Answers on Immigration in Britain

by Anthony,Farid Raymond

• ISBN13: 9780714642727
• ISBN10: 071464272X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1996-10-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This guide to immigration to Britain uses a question and answer format to provide information in simple English. It ranges over: visitors; professional workers; students; business people; working in the UK; settlement; asylum; offences and deportation; appeals and British nationality.

Author Biography

Farid Anthony is a barrister, currently non-practising, and is also a barrister and solicitor in two other countries. He set up the 'Immigration Advisory Services of Kent', now renamed the 'Immigration and General Consultancy Services (Kent)'

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. viii
List of questions	p. ix
Cases mentioned	p. xxi
Foreword	p. xxv
Introduction	p. xxvii
General	p. 1
Visitors	p. 25
Ordinary visits	p. 25
Medical visits	p. 31
Academic visits	p. 33
Visitors in transit	p. 34
Visits by entertainers / film crews	p. 35
Professional workers	p. 37
Doctors, dentists, lawyers	p. 37
Students	p. 40
People entering on business	p. 55
Businessmen and self-employed	p. 55
Representatives of overseas firms	p. 60
Writers, composers and artists	p. 62
Investors	p. 65
ECAA businessmen	p. 66
Working in the United Kingdom	p. 69
Employment/work permit	p. 69
Approved work training/ work experience	p. 71
Working holidaymakers	p. 74
UK ancestral connections	p. 78
Au pairs	p. 80
Seasonal agricultural workers	p. 82
Teachers and language assistants	p. 83
Overseas government employees	p. 85
Private servants in diplomatic household	p. 86
Domestic servants (not in diplomatic employment)	p. 88
Ministers of religion, missionaries, members of religious orders	p. 90
Entry for other purposes	p. 94
Retired persons of independent means	p. 94
Access to child resident in the United Kingdom	p. 96
Diplomats	p. 98
European Union nationals	p. 99
Settlement	p. 102
Right of abode	p. 102
Spouses	p. 103
Fiance(e)s	p. 112
Children	p. 113
Adopted children	p. 116
Other relatives	p. 118
Homosexuals	p. 120
Cohabitation	p. 121
Returning residents	p. 122
Holders of special vouchers	p. 124
Concessions	p. 125
Asylum	p. 127
Offences and deportation	p. 139
Illegal entry	p. 139
Assisting illegal entry	p. 141
Other offences	p. 142
Offences connected with ships/aircraft/ports	p. 143
Deportation by court recommendation	p. 144
Deportation by the Home Office	p. 144
Bail	p. 149
Appeals	p. 152
British nationality	p. 155
Postscript	p. 162
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