You want a specific answer to a specific immigration question? What you get instead is a massive UKVI website with links leading off to further links, clickable pdf documents that run into hundreds of pages.The net result: you get stressed and develop a headache.The UK Government Visas and Immigration website is a maze. The net effect of a maze is to bewilder or astonish or to stupefy or daze. Unfortunately that is what happens to most readers of the UKVI website. This is because material on the UK Immigration website is written in legal language by bureaucrats whose purpose is not to encourage UK immigration but to deter it. Vital details are often hidden in huge clickable pdf documents that the reader has to wade through to find out what they want.Unless you have trained as a solicitor (the UK word for Lawyer) reading such hard and difficult prose can quickly give you a headache.Don't lose heart, however. There is hope for those trying to make sense of UK immigration rules. "There are some people who have the marvellous ability to take complex matters and make them appear quite simple. Such people can see to the heart of the matter. Such people can discard what is detail and what is irrelevant.": Edward de Bono in How To Be More Interesting (1998).Do you get a headache looking at the UK Government Visas and Immigration website? Were you planning to pay hundreds of pounds/dollars/euros to a UK immigration adviser?Wait! This book makes UK immigration simple. It is continuously updated, so when you buy it you get the latest information.It answers in simple English the typical questions foreigners have about UK immigration and student visas in particular. Do not get lost in the maze.Aside from providing relevant visas and immigration information, this book takes the entire UK Visas and Immigration website and breaks down the hard legal prose into simple questions and answers.This book also tells you about loopholes and ways around UK immigration rules that you will not see on the UKVI website.For instance, you want info on how to get your non-EEA spouse into the UK legally despite your not earning the minimum £18,600 per year required. You won't find this easily on UKVI's website. In this book you will. Look for this question in the contents page: Is there a loophole to bypass the minimum earnings requirement? (in the section: "The Family/Partner Route to Settlement").The UKVI website is not designed to make it easy to settle in the UK. They don't want to make it easy because they don't really want anyone to know about these loopholes in the system that they can't close because of EU law.You want a specific answer to a specific immigration question? You get it in this book. No need to read reams of prose buried inside 75-page pdf documents to find out. Save your eyes for better things.In this book the author, Rajiv Immanuel, answers most questions regarding UK immigration. This book answers questions relating to immigration, biometric residence permits, student visas, UK ancestry visas, work visas, spousal visas, investor visas, entrepreneur visas, UK nationality and citizenship and most importantly, permanent settlement in the UK. The author, arrived in the UK from India in 1995 as an international student. Now he, a British citizen, is a writer of books preparing others for UK life. This book is part of an 18 book series: Rajiv Immanuel's Preparing You for UK Life Series. A major book in the series is Complete Guide to Living, Working and Studying in the UK: Preparing You for Life in Britain.If you are a resident of a country outside the European Economic Area, are young, skilled and ambitious and are considering making the UK your home, then the first step for you is to find out how to settle down permanently in the UK. This book tells you of conventions followed by the UKVI in granting permanent settlement. Such information could help you settle down in the UK.
About the Author: Dickens, Hardy, Hopkins, Chaucer, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Shakespeare, Milton, Maugham, Emerson... you name it - we had it. Works by such authors lined our bookshelves at home in India. Our wealth was mostly in our heads. This was the type of home I was born into in 1965. Apart from being Christians, another way in which we were different from people around us was that we spoke English at home. In the India of those days that was unusual. After a degree in Economics in 1982, I added an MBA in 1985. I worked for a while as a Civil Servant in India. I soon got bored with pushing files. In 1995 I arrived at Reading University, UK, to study for a Postgraduate degree in Economics. The scholarship I came on is listed in my Complete Guide book. I learnt a lot about UK university life. As the years passed in the UK, we, my wife and I, found that our roots in the UK had become too strong to consider going back. Both our children were born here in the UK. We realised how much we loved this country and with the Home Office's co-operation decided to make the UK our home. Meanwhile, I had found my métier in life: to be a writer. Since then I have been a professional observer of life in the UK. While I have a great regard for this land, I am also aware that like any country there are problems here too. I am an INFP. It is one of 16 personality types derived from the MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator). Those who belong to this personality type get a great deal of satisfaction from helping others grow and develop. My life's mission is to write books that help other migrants after me understand this country, make the most of opportunities here, contribute to UK society, and avoid nasty surprises. In short: to prepare new migrants for UK life. In my books I have put my nearly two decades of living in this country at your service. I hope you find my books helpful and the information and practical advice useful. Best wishes for your UK life!