How to become a British Citizen in 2023 - All possible visa routes
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- There are so many new visas that make it easier than ever to climb the path to British citizenship.
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The "NO SPORTSPERSON" right across the front of my BRP makes me laugh every time 😂
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Like at least try
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!!UPDATE!! Since January 31, 2024, individuals traveling to the United Kingdom have been allowed to work remotely while visiting.
As someone who works as an international student advisor in the U.S., hearing about the similarities and differences between the U.S. and UK systems is very interesting.
Can you expand on this?
Started following your content shortly before coming to the UK for university, I hope to one day escape the hell hole of the USA and this is definitely a help, even if I don't stay here
I’m British and I want to escape the hell hole here😂
People from the US especially TX and FL want to move to the UK or some other country because of what their state government is being run and some people in the UK want to move to the US for the same reasons it’s kind of ironic. 😅😊😂
For some people the UK's a better fit for others the US is a better fit 🤷🏾♂️
Watched an excellent interview with Ron DeSantis and a British journalist recently, he spoke publicly about his sisters death in London during 2015.
@@john_smith1471 I will look up that interview as I am definitely interested seeing it
For me I would rather to leave in UK why there’s no shooting crime in UK compared in US…
Meanwhile people who aren’t supposed to be in the uk are arriving every day on rubber boats whilst left wing judges are stopping them being turned around. The only people getting rich are scum bag people smugglers
Glad I got out and am living in the most boring humourless country in the world NZ. I was in Dubai for 16 years and that’s where I am going back to.
Thank you for this video, I’m from the USA and lived in the UK for three years as a child and plan to live there again when I’m done with college.
Up to the middle of the process it's surprisingly similar to me in Canada.
International Student (2 year permit) -> post-graduate work permit (2 year permit cuz I studied for 2) -> permanent resident (faster cuz I studied/ had work exp in 🇨🇦 ) and now I just passed the citizenship test so this year I'll do the same embarrassing swearing in while looking into The King's eyes Evan had to do.😊
Thank you for this summary, Evan, I think it will help so many people!
Just one important point of clarification on the UK Ancestry visa. There are actually two stipulations: You must have at least one grandparent (living or dead) who was born in the UK, AND you must be a Commonwealth (or British overseas territory) citizen. This is a tricky little stipulation that unfortunately excludes US citizens, for instance.
Source: South African living in the UK on an Ancestry visa.
0:42 Visitor Visa
2:15 student visa
5:32 Graduate visa
6:50 Skilled Worker Visa (previously Tier 2)
10:11 Global Talent Visa
Evan I just wanted to thank you for creating the content you do, comparing British and American perspectives, explanations on a foreigner's insights on living in the UK, and these visa videos. I got approved for my ancestry visa last week and my flight over is tonight. Looking forward to starting a new chapter. Your videos were extremely informative and helpful for considering and planning how to go about my move. Keep making this amazing content and I'm sure we'll all keep watching!🤘
Hope you’re enjoying your time!
THIS IS SO AWESOME TO KNOW. Also, such an interesting way to learn about it. You are awesome
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Evan, I don’t normally post comments, but I have a lot to thank you for. I discovered your videos as a sophomore in high school - I watched your US vs. UK videos religiously and took note of any information you shared about UK VISAs and the technical parts of moving to the UK or studying there full time. It became a dream of mine to get my full bachelor‘s degree in England and hopefully live in the UK for a while after graduation before prancing around Italy and The Netherlands and as many countries as I can to find a home (shocker: I don‘t want to live in the US). Thanks to your videos, by the end of my sophomore year I had developed an entire plan as to how I would obtain my student visa/tier 4 visa and move overseas. I knew more about this than anyone at my school, even guidance counselors and teachers who told me it was not possible to fully enroll in a UK university and that I should just study abroad for a semester. Luckily, I didn‘t listen to them, but then COVID happened.
I got depressed and didn‘t care about my future anymore. I didn‘t think I wanted pursue higher education, so by the time I started my senior year and it was expected of me to apply for colleges, I only applied to a few schools in and around New England to „keep my options open“. Well, that went better than I thought, and I ended up getting a $60,000/year scholarship from NYU. Everyone was so excited for me, but one, it was for a program I didn‘t like, and two, it meant I gave up on my dream. Anyways, I ended up dropping NYU. I took this gap year to focus on work and applying to a ton of schools over in England. I will now be studying in Kent for a bachelor‘s in Drama & Theatre, and I‘m in the middle of the student VISA process now.
If it weren‘t for your channel and the videos you posted, who knows where I would be right now. I can‘t say I would have been gearing up to move to England this September. I also would have spent LOADS more on my degree in the US, even with that scholarship. I‘m so glad you‘re still posting these kinds of videos to help more people understand how VISAs actually work and get an idea of what they should research. It’s so wonderful that you‘re now a UK citizen as well.
For all of this, thank you a thousand times!
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Congrats and good for you. I hope you like England (Scotland,Wales etc ) so much you choose to live here.
What a cool post. 😊
It's always been my dream to live in the UK but I didnt have an Evan back in the day, before I made many..."prohibitive" life choices. 😕 But ya never know, maybe I'll still get there someday.
Best of luck to you! 👍🏼😁
I have also used Evan's videos as a guide for so many things since I found out I was moving to England. From visas to taxes and weird culture things. Great springboard to start my own research.
I’m glad you commented! What an inspiring story. I hope you’ll go on to vlog about it and inspire others in turn. You’ve got your first subscriber!
Congrats! Inspiring story. I wish you luck on your journey!
The fact that they specifically prohibit professional sports for a lot of these visas, I definitely think there's a story behind that 😆😆
it's actually a scheme to keep the British football teams more... "british"... i wish i was joking
I recall that at one time (around the turn of the century I think?), most of the "English" cricket team were not British, there were cricketers from Australia, South Africa, someone from the Caribbean, a few from the Subcontinent, etc. I'm from one of those countries and I found it amusing that England did not have enough native born sporting talent to field a competitive team made up from locals.
@@Dave_Sisson that still happens in the 21st century. Kevin Peterson the cricketer is South African but played for England, and mo farah was from Somalia before he was smuggled into the UK as an asylum seeker, now he's a multi Olympic medal winner.
There are many other examples I could give.
Also to note we also allow people to play for national teams if they were educated for a period of time in that country. Several Scottish footballers have done this.
There is the stand alone professional sports visa so its probably to reduce those whose visa would be declined from being able to find a loophole
@@OptrixTV ❤ hold it
I was born in Britain to British parents who emigrated to New Zealand when I was kid, while my fiancee is an American with a British mother. So, we both know a fair bit about visas and get a lot of questions from family/friends about visa processes.
The best advice I can give anyone who is in for the long haul in settling in another country permanently is: Understand that it's a privilege, not an entitlement. During covid, we had quite a few British and American friends who decided that they wanted to come to New Zealand, and were genuinely surprised to discover that they couldn't just turn up and work in their chosen field right off the bat, unless they had skills in an area that was in demand. Simply holding the passport of a certain country or being a certain age doesn't mean a red carpet gets rolled out for you (this is most relevant to Brits, as some do think the commonwealth connection means you're automatically entitled to residency in places like Canada or NZ). It also takes several years in most countries to reach a permanent status where you have full travel rights, and in the meantime, you have to think about how adverse events like family illnesses or job losses could derail your visa plan. This is to say 'don't do it' but to make sure you go in with your eyes wide open - moving countries permanently is long hard slog, but totally worth it if that's what you really want.
Lol, we EU citizens are truly blessed. At least within the EU.
@@ApfelFlixbut do you really want to live and work in most places in the eu.
As a Canadian immigrant this is pretty much exactly how the system works there. The Graduate Visa system (called something else in Canada) is so nice to have just incase you can't find a suitable job directly after graduation. Love to hear the UK has implemented it as well.
Just a note about the UK Ancestry Visa (unless they've now changed it), along with proving one of your grandparents was from the UK, you also need to be from a Commonwealth country, so wouldn't work for US citizens. I'm from Australia, and my grandpa was from Scotland, so I just had to provide his birth certificate (which was a bit of a faff to get), along with my dad's birth certificate and mine, to prove the family connection. I also had to show that I had enough finances to support myself.
The thing that is often misunderstood about ILR is that it really is indefinite (unless you do something heinous like murder someone). If you leave the UK for more than 2 years, your residency does expire. But you do not have to go through all that fuss to get it back.
Once you've been granted ILR, you can return to the UK under a "Returning Resident" visa. This is fairly straightforward, all you really have to do is show that your visit is for the purposes of residing, not just a tourist visit (e.g. you've got a job lined up, or you've rented or bought a place, etc). There is a fee, but it's not the thousands of pounds that was originally spent getting ILR.
Having said that, it's faintly absurd that it does expire after two years. But at least it's not a "start again from the very beginning" thing.
Broadly correct, but two corrections.
For the Ancestry visa, you must prove that at least one of your grandparents was *born* in the UK. The grandparent merely being a British citizen living in the UK does not count. Which is why the descendants of many migrants whose children moved out of the UK would not qualify. The grandparent needs a UK (including the whole of Ireland before 1921) birth certificate for their grandchild to qualify.
As for the family visa, you do not need to prove a marriage for two years. You need to prove that you are either (a) legally married in a jurisdiction whose marriage is recognised by the UK OR (b) you have lived together as a couple for a period of at least two continuous years. Option B is for unmarried couples.
Note that the UK has policies not recognising polygamous marriages for the purposes of visa sponsorship, even if those marriages were conducted in jurisdictions whose marriages are otherwise recognised.
Love the description of ILR as "citizenship lite", because that is exactly what it is. Indeed, if you have Commonwealth citizenship (citizenship of any of the 54 Commonwealth countries), before ILR, you can legally vote in all elections in the UK. And after you get ILR, a Commonwealth citizen can be elected MP and could theoretically become Prime Minister without being a British citizen, let alone that whole "natural born citizen" American nonsense.
Another important point missed out was that for the family visa, the British citizen must demonstrate an annual income of at least £18,600 for the partner, plus additional amounts for any dependent non-British children included in the application.
While that may sound cheap in the US and some other countries, ~30-40% of the UK workforce earn less than that threshold and are therefore unable to sponsor their spouses at all.
@@girish2001 this is the combined income of you and your partner, so if your partner is transitioning from a different visa, their income can also be included.
Honestly I think £18,600 requirement is reasonable, you'd really struggle to support 2 people on less than that in most areas of the UK
Option B is also for when you are applying to extend your family visa - you do have to provide evidence that you have been living together for two years.
@@girish2001This is £18600 per year before tax - I think it's doable. You would have to earn more, yes, if the children are not British citizens. Also, you could be self- employed, or combine income from different jobs.
The run down on the visas was interesting. I do have to say, gbp 42,400 is not a very high salary here in the US. The median for full time workers is around usd 54,000, so if you work at the sort of company where you could transfer to a foreign office, the salary requirement is not going to be a problem.
When you convert it, 42,400 GBP isn't much less than $54,000.
It’s also worth mentioning that the ICT visa doesn’t grant you ilr status, so if you want to get ilr status and get citizenship, you’ll have to switch to a different visa and build up years on that to get that.
I'm a Canadian about to apply for ILR from an expiring Tier 2 visa. This video made my day! :) Haha
I started following you when you were suffering through all those visa travails. I am thinking that however awful it was for you, it did result in some extremely entertaining videos! But I am glad it is easier now. Thank you for the video!
Watching this as someone born in the UK really makes me realize how lucky I am to never have had to jump through these hoops if I did end up wanting to move as a non-citizen
This is really helpful. Thank you so much. I am gonna go watch this another half dozen times now.
Evan your videos on this subject have been so helpful and encouraging for me as an American also hopefully on the path to British citizenship, Thank you!!!
You're crazy. I like your energy. Thanks for this very informative video.
Hi! You did a very good job explaining all the visas available, but perhaps you can make a road map that really guide us through the process of getting a UK CZ from scratch
No Mastercards here 😅. This is why Evan is the master of puns.
I knew about the Tier Skilled Worker visas but I didn't realise there were so many others. I'll definitely have to look into these. As someone who's a couple of months shy of getting their Library Technician Certification I'm very curious to know which visas I would qualify for. I of course eventually want to get citizenship but right now my main concern is securing a job and visa once I finish my certification and get some experience under my belt.
Thanks for this Evan. My wife and I have watched your channel on and off for years. We live in the US and are looking forward to moving to the UK. I'm a natural born citizen, but the Visa stuff surrounding her move is stressing us both out. Watching your journey has been awesome, and hopefully we'll be over there in the next couple of years.
This was a tier A video Evan!!! Great work. Also, bloody amazing accent work here too!1:45 7:59
Just wanted to point out something really quick - you do not need to have lived together for the Spouse or Fiancée visa (I would know!), that requirement is only for the Unmarried Partner visa. Also they do 100% need you to submit things like chat logs to prove your relationship. The website is intentionally confusing and misleading. Your UK partner also needs to earn a minimum of £18600 in order to sponsor their partner (or have a ton of savings).
Correct (no proof of cohabitation required for spouses). Clarification needed: £18600 per year GROSS - before tax - required for a sponsor to sponsor a partner or a spouse UNLESS the sponsor is in receipt of some benefits.
My wife did the English language test for spouse and was shocked how easy it was. It's clearly a harder one if you're not a spouse.
That depends - but generally spouses only need to pass an A1 test initially.
Thanks so much for this video, my partner lives in the UK and I've been searching all over for a comprehensive guide on this. We plan on staying together for quite a long time so to speak and it's been quite a confusing time researching it.
Hey, I'm in a similar boat. The path we're taking is:
- Live together for 2 years on a graduate visa (you could exchange this for a student visa)
- Partner visa for 5 years (you don't need to be married, just live together)
- Indefinite Leave to remain
@@Atral557hello I would like to know more about this process. My girlfriend lives in the UK and we are looking for a way for me (us) to be able to stay with her. For the study visa or graduate visa what steps did you take?
@@raven5144 there's too much to explain in a TH-cam comment, but have a look at student and graduate visas on the gov UK website.
Basic summary is that you need to be accepted for and study a bachelor's degree or higher to completion. 1 year master's programmes are included in this if you already have a bachelor's.
To get the unmarried partner visa, you need to have lived together for at least 2 years and your combined income must be at least £29,000 a year. You could potentially reach the 2 year requirement while studying and therefore skip the graduate visa.
After this, provided you can prove the above requirements (make sure both of your names are on bills, tenancy agreements etc) you can get the partner visa for 2 years 9 months and renew it for a further 2.5 years, which brings you to the 5 year requirement for permanent residence
As a british citizen whose parents were immigrants, idk why I'm here, Ig i just like the channel and puns?
keep it u Evan!
This is quite interesting, thanks for explaining it!
7:40 The US has the same sort of labor market test with the H1B visa, which is the most common visa I've seen here in tech. It also has similar equivalent salary rules.
You ARE Bob the Uncle. Excellent content. To the point. No BS
I wish the UK hadn't done away with the retirement visa or 'person of independent means'. I lived and worked in the UK for 6 years so I don't meet the requirement for 10 continuous years. I'm nearing retirement age and I get the UK wants to stem migration, so it seems my only avenue is to work longer than I want to in order to get a 'remain to leave' visa.
make something like this for every country lol make it a series, low key, huge potential (also, if u do, make one for Canada 😂)
This video was really clear and absolutely fascinating! I'd be really interested in more videos about your experiences with these visas and the home office
Back in 2002 and 2003 the student visa was free and given out at passport control in the airport. (At least for citizens of countries that did no require getting a tourist visa)
I was living in UK for 20 years I had my work there,my life there,my friends I have returned back home for couple of years back home and the next thing Im not alowed to work there and had my life back there because of the brexit how absured is this!
Damn that's harsh, I got lucky and managed to get ILR but honestly it feels like things are getting so much worse. If it wasn't for the industry I want to get into being pretty big in the UK I'd probably leave.
As an Indian living in Germany, I wish someone made a similar video for Germany 😁
You just have to be as British as Queen Victoria...as in be half-German and marry a German.
Well, you could do it....
I lived in Germany for 3 years in a very restricted work visa. And untimely left because I was so tired of being on temporary visas and now being able to do anything except work for one employer. Constants stress. Now I’m in Canada and visas here are also pretty complicated and my future here is not certain.
Jus get on a small dinghy in France and sail towards Uk, free meals and hotels!
My route was much easier because it was 30+ years ago. I came in on a young person's visa - for people who had finished university and were spending a bit of time doing other stuff - and was able to work with that. However, I was actually already engaged to a British man who I had met a few years before. A year after we married I transitioned to ILR. The Home Office were horrible to me. They lost my documents (including my passport) for several months and then blamed me for the hold-up. Every communication was aggressive and had the tone of I was so lucky that they were even considering me. My husband had to intervene on my behalf several times. As a Commonwealth citizen (Canadian) it turned out I actually had voting rights anyway but I decided to go for full citizenship - mostly for the EU rights, Ha!! That didn't last. Now the main benefit is that I can go through the same passport lane as my family when we travel.
Sometimes the "3rd country national" lane is actually faster ;)
I'll definitely save this,
I think you missed the Religious preacher visa ahah but hey man, appreciate all the fun, i mean, info xD
Exceptional video 👌
Don’t change!
Gosh this is amazing! Thank you so much!
The estimated time period mentioned at 0:01 is for EU or non-EU people because the requirements for EU and non-EU people are different.
You made that hilarious to love you and the discussed subject for a foreign 😅
Was I born in the UK, Yes, Did I still watch the entire video? Also yes.
correction: the graduate visa is *at least* two years: if you get a PhD it will last three years!
Evan got such high potential, he worked a job for 2 years between 2018 and 2019
The family visa costs are absolutely insane. My girlfriend is Vietnamese and we're getting married this year. We might be going to live in the UK in a few years and it's just ridiculous. For just a two and a half year visa, it's over £1,500 (just to apply - you might get rejected and they keep it) and then another over £1,500 for the NHS surcharge (which of course you don't get back if you get a job and start paying National Insurance anyway). And then hilariously they have a minimum income requirement to make sure that you can afford to support your spouse. Maybe I could afford to support her if you hadn't just taken over 3 grand off me. Imagine how much quicker you could avoid being a burden on the state if you could put that 3 grand towards a deposit for a house, for example.
Most countries rinse immigrants, because they can't vote and so can't really complain. And the people who design the system never have to actually use it. But the UK really takes the biscuit. I'm just hoping that the Tories get voted out and Labour change things. Unfortunately, they Tories have ruined so many things that I doubt this sort of thing will be a top priority. Maybe we should just move to Australia or something.
If you can put 3 grand towards a deposit for a house then you've got money anyway. 😂
A better example would be towards rent, as a safety net etc.
I'm in a similar situation except my girlfriend already lives and works in the UK on a graduate visa.
From reading the website, you only need to meet the income requirements if your partner wants to reach ILR in 5 years. If you just want to stay for a few years on the visa it shouldn't be a problem.
Also, savings aren't required to meet the income criteria, as long as you're earning £18,600+ you're okay.
this is suboptimal, the most efficient way is to enter on a raft from madagascar and then you become a citizen the moment you step on land
Fantastic video! Very informative.
The changes sound like they are looking to align with the migration options that match Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. CAZNUK might just happen
I love the way you do your yutube presentation...you are funny 😊and also concise. Thank you. Keep it coming.😊
Thank you!
Thank you for the Hong Kong shoutout!
I want to specify as someone on in the UK on an Ancestry visa, overall it was pretty straight forward to get BUT, and something that was left out, you have to be from a Commonwealth country. For example, I'm from Canada and have a English grandparent so was able to get the visa. An American or Brazilian or anyone not from a Commonwealth country could have a British grandparent and it wouldn't make a difference, like they're not gonna get that visa. Not trying to rub it in, just want people to be aware.
Annoyingly, the work you do on a graduate visa does NOT count toward the 5 years of working for ILR
My partner is one of the millions of EU expats living in the UK for years, has settled status but is looking at becoming a citizen just for the right to vote in the country she lives in. The fact that it's so expensive seems to put a lot of people off, meaning that people can have lived here for 20+ years are still not entitled to vote. I doubt that's a co-incidental, but seems ludicrous to me!
What’s the reverse procedure for Brits in their home country? The whole thing is so stupid. UK….we have a skilled AND non skilled worker shortage. I know let’s piss off a whole group of people who are already here and supporting our economy. 🤦🏻♀️
So many EU nationals had lived in the UK for years and didn’t find it necessary to get British citizenship until brexit. It was a lot easier for EU nationals before brexit.
Thing is Evan, minimum wage in the UK is £10.42, so working a 40 hour week job will get you £21,673.60. So saying no poor cause of a £25k need, its not too much more than minimum wage. Doing a few hours of overtime a week will cover the difference, especially if its at 1.5x or even 2x per hour. Ive had jobs in the past where my salary was £22k a year, and then because of overtime, ive walked away with almost £35k. It all depends on you and your circumstances. But its always good to look at things like this.
As a British citizen i would never think to look at any of this information, so it is super interesting, love the no sport rules, LOL, made me laff everytime when you said "no Rugby", who in their right mind wants to play Rugby. LOL
One important thing you did not cover in the Ancestry visa is that you must also show that you can and will work in the UK, and more importantly for most, you are a Commonwealth citizen, in addition to being able to prove you have a grandparent who was born in the UK, Isle of Mann, Channel Islands, or Ireland (before 31 March 1922).
For my wife and I, the sticking point would be the work as we are going to be retired soon and not planning on working. She can claim Canadian citizenship, so the Commonwealth part would be covered.
So nothing for mere mortals who are not highly educated and skilled
It is no longer possible to come from other countries and work in the UK, for example, in a warehouse and the like jobs?
I (27 british man) have been dating my girlfriend (22 american woman) for a year and she has visited me for 3 months in total and ive visited her for a month in vegas. We are going to get married and hopefully get the family visa, although it seems stupidly difficult. I dont fully understand why the government get to decide who i marry and live with.
you could get the fiancée visa and get married within 6 months. Even for some reason didn't mention this route in the video. This visa doesn't required you having to prove you've lived together prevoiusly.
Plenty of people in the past just got married and then left their partner within 1--12 months , some of the new partners even paid the British partner
Marry and stay with the guy for two years. That's what those hot chick Ukranian women do,it happened to my friends partner. Once they've got ALL the money and the citizenship they move on.
@@rokuro80 Yeah i think that might be the best bet. Im just hoping that once weve paid for that visa and the wedding that the family visa is easier.
@@JoshuaHill182 I wouldn't recommend the fiance visa, that way you pay additional £1500 and she can't work for the 6 months she's in the UK for the wedding. Get married somewhere else (Vegas?) and apply for the partner visa directly - that's what I did and am now happily in the UK with my husband :)
Hi Evan and others,
I believe I'm eligible for a Global talent visa in Digital tech under the promising leader category. I've the following two questions if anyone can answer:
1) Am I allowed to do business on this visa? - My plan is to dedicate 20 hours a week to the business and 40 hours I'll continue to work somewhere else (Not in the field of endorsement)
2) After 5 years, am I eligible for the ILR if I worked in a different field as a full-time employee but still worked 20 hours a week for a business which is directly related to the field of endorsement?
I've asked these questions from solicitors but heard mixed responses from all of them
There is another route you didn’t mention which is skilled worker-dependent visa. My spouse is a Sudanese doctor and I applied for a dependent visa on her visa.
Thanks!!
7:24 Well, Canada, the US, Australia are just the same. Any immigrant applying for work visa must first obtain a Labour Market Impact Assessment that proves the company has first tried yet failed to find suitable employees in the country itself.
Through ancestry research, I discovered that my grandfather could have applied for the UK Ancestry Visa; his paternal grandmother was born in Cornwall, but no one remembered that, I found it from records. So had he applied for it before my mother was born, I would be able to apply for it.
It's frustrating that it's only a couple generations out of reach for me. All my other research turned up "Early Connecticut & Massachusetts Settlers" across several different lines. I know which ships and the dates several great grandfathers emigrated, but it's so far in the past it doesn't matter.
But then there's this one very recent great grandmother being born in Redruth, Cornwall. I was like, damnit, so close.
I'm just two steps away from the protagonist of a bad movie who inherits a title and a spooky manor house on a cliff from a childless great uncle they didn't know they had. Not entirely implausible either; my great-great-grandmother's family did in fact have some kind of claim to a very old manor house on a cliff...
There are age exceptions for the requirement to take the life in the UK test.
But what if, in your home country, picking fruit and looking after poultry is considered a sport and you do it at an elite level?
Lol
With applying for British citizenship you will also need to provide your life in the uk test certificate.
3:58 That's a perfect manager!!!!!!
Sorry, let me correct you NHS for 1year is £1200 and student visa is £540
I'm going to guess that the "masseuse" thing is to prevent a loophole for foreign sex workers... like maybe in the past that's how they we're able to bring people into the UK "legitimately" and put them to work as a "masseuse"(sex worker) ... the sports thing is probably to keep teams from importing more talented players from foreign countries... kind of similar to the masseuse thing if you think about it
Canada and the US both have the labor market test for their immigrants. It's pretty standard.
Skilled worker list and minimum salary limits changed.I don't know the whole skilled list but at least I know that it's now harder and the salary limit went up to ~37k pounds which is bummer.
Evan mentioning Ultimate🤯🤯🤯 Marques and I feel seen
that was awesome bro
Kinda have to ask. Why would someone want to become a British citizen today post Brexit instead of an EU member like Ireland or Netherlands or Sweden? 🤔
"Before breaking hisn heart!" hahahha. That's so funny, lol
Under the EU almost anyone from 27 EU countries when there were extra rules and charges for people from elsewhere. Now UK government can produce similar rules for people from anywhere (If they wish).
Timestamps would've been amazingly helpful for this video : )
I’ll add them today :) great idea! They were meant to be here but I caught an awful bug
16:03 As soon as you said TH-camr and ultimate frisbee in one sentence I immediately thought of MKBHD. 🤣
I am taking the Global Talents -> IRL -> Citzenship path
What about Architecture/Urban planning? I would say it is associated with engineering or stem, but some would argue it’s arts as well
ps. also, out of term time is also not restricted to 40 hours, it's just called "full time" and could technically exceed 40 hours should you want it to
As an American citizen with a passport who was denied entry at the London airport and sent back to the US, the vistor's visa is not guaranteed by any means. They will ask you a bunch of questions about your stay, and they better like your story or you're not getting in. I strongly recommend anyone get their visa's approved before flying, especially if there is anything at all about you that might make them think you won't leave when time is up, you will try to work illegally, or you will be using their healthcare system.
So I have to have a Visa card to enter the UK?
Great explanation
Pity that the longest sponsor permit for employing companies is 4 years, while working visa is 5 years. This means your sponsor company will need to agree to re-apply again for the sponsor license to keep you employed. Otherwise, you will need to find another sponsor company😢
Very helpful. I'm a British citizen but my partner isn't. Now I have a clear avenue of his routes bar marriage 😂.
Great videos. I wish I'd found them long ago.
I'm a Brit working overseas and married for 35 years. We have a son who is now a masters degree holder from a UK university and working permanently in UK with full local status. We want to retire to UK to be near our son. All the visas you mention state a minimum salary requirement. Is there one with a minimum savings or similar instead? Could we use the family visa? As you might guess from the length of time we've been married we are both 60 now. Any pointers in the right direction would be welcomed very much.
I'm an American, but I have always flirted with the idea of moving to London, at least for a bit. How do you think that the citizenship process will differ under a Labour government later this year, or do you think it will stay roughly the same?
I qualify for the ancestry visa. My grandpa was born in Blackburn, Lancashire. I'm considering using it one day, but I have to visit first and go find his birth certificate.
I'm pretty sure you don't need to find the original birth certificate, an official replica can be applied for from the General Register Office website.
Also, with visa routes such as ancestry one should not depend on that being available indefinitely. Worth pursuing with vim and vigour ASAP, because it'll become harder to do as one's life evolves around job, family, etc.
Another potential route is if one has Irish grandparents. I think that it's a lot easier to get Irish citizenship that way. And, because of the historical relationship between Ireland and Great Britain, Irish citizenship is as good as British citizenship for the purpose of living in the UK. And Ireland is a cool place anyway.
The thing about Irish citizenship is that gives one the right to reside and work anywhere in Europe too, so it's a very powerful passport to have. Lots of Brits with Irish grandparents have been using their ancestry to get Irish, EU compatible passports.
Pretty certain you don't need to visit. You can do this online.
@@dorothywarren1441 Why would I do that? It's not as fun.
I love British culture, and really want to move there!
Good information.
Im a dual citizen, I skipped all those steps though, My dads just from there, Ill be over in August.
Bob's your uncle.. Spoke like a true Englishman 😂
I live in small town middle of nowhere West Virginia(USA) & im beyond burnt out. Sick of it. I have always wanted to move to England. I wish 😔