What rights does an Indian father have to get a visa into the Uk, if his child has uk citizenship?
I have Uk citizenship. Our child has uk citizenship. Her father is an Indian national. What rights does he have to obtain residency / visa into the Uk to live and work here?
The father has no rights per se to a visa just because he has a child who is a British citizen, but if he and the mother are in an ongoing relationship, either married or living together as a couple, the fact that you have a child together will help enormously as it it clear proof of a genuine relationship.
Depending on the couple’s situation, he could apply for a spouse visa or an unmarried partner visa. If the couple have been married and living outside the UK for more than four years, the spouse is likely to get Indefinite Leave to Remain (subject to taking and passing the Knowledge of Life in the UK test) on arrival. Otherwise he will get a two year probationary visa which allows him to live and the in the UK as long as he remains married and living with his UK spouse in the UK.
After two years, he can apply for ILR.
If the couple are not married, you will be required to provide evidence that you have been living together as man and wife for at least two years. This evidence should be in the form of joint bank statements, utility bills, or other official correspondence either addressed to you both or addressed to each of you at the same address.
Other than this, the conditions for a spouse visa and an unmarried partner visa are the same.
Take note that there is a new requirment from 29 November for English language testing for all non-European migrants applying to come to the UK to join or marry their settled partner.
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/newsarticles/2010/july/50-english-test-partners
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/partnersandfamilies/partners/husbandswivescivilpartners/
http://londonelegance.com/transpondia/spouse/
I’m guessing your the child’s Mother? ( sorry if I’m wrong! ) and her Father is Indian? He wants to live in the UK? Well he could always apply for a visa? Is he in Indian now? You can always be his sponsor, to help him get a visa, he will need to contact the British Embassy in India. Does he have a professional skill or well educated, and does he speak fluent english if so this will help hugely, as the UK bases it’s visa applicants on a points based system, I think you need like 40 points depending on which visa you get, he may get 10 for speaking English, and maybe some for having a child in the UK, however I’m unsure. Get him to contact the British embassy and ask, they will give him all the advice he needs!
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http://ukinindia.fco.gov.uk/
The father has no rights per se to a visa just because he has a child who is a British citizen, but if he and the mother are in an ongoing relationship, either married or living together as a couple, the fact that you have a child together will help enormously as it it clear proof of a genuine relationship.
Depending on the couple’s situation, he could apply for a spouse visa or an unmarried partner visa. If the couple have been married and living outside the UK for more than four years, the spouse is likely to get Indefinite Leave to Remain (subject to taking and passing the Knowledge of Life in the UK test) on arrival. Otherwise he will get a two year probationary visa which allows him to live and the in the UK as long as he remains married and living with his UK spouse in the UK.
After two years, he can apply for ILR.
If the couple are not married, you will be required to provide evidence that you have been living together as man and wife for at least two years. This evidence should be in the form of joint bank statements, utility bills, or other official correspondence either addressed to you both or addressed to each of you at the same address.
Other than this, the conditions for a spouse visa and an unmarried partner visa are the same.
Take note that there is a new requirment from 29 November for English language testing for all non-European migrants applying to come to the UK to join or marry their settled partner.
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/newsarticles/2010/july/50-english-test-partners
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/partnersandfamilies/partners/husbandswivescivilpartners/
http://londonelegance.com/transpondia/spouse/
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as long as your and the father are married and you are BOTH over the age of 21, you can sponsor him to immigrate to the UK – which means a lot of paperwork and proof that he is eligible.
and yes he must speak fairly fluent english – language testing starts in November.
but until he is granted ILR status, he has no rights in the immigration process.
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The father derives no "rights" or privileges whatsoever by committing parenthood. He is obligated to support his child and send you his share of the money necessary to care for it (you both are equally liable to pay for the support of your child). He has no right to any visit visa or any other type of visa based on paternity.
It appears that you are not married. Therefore, you have NO legal standing and cannot do anything whatsoever to sponsor his immigration, help him get a visa or anything else.
BTW, his child has a right to citizenship in his father’s country of citizenship and he can obtain citizenship for his child. Take it to the father, and have the father care for and support his kid.
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