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Bringing family member from outside UK
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I think even with the grandmothering/mother visa they have changed matters, that they are no entitled to state support until they have been here 5 years.
They must be cared for by the relative, including medical expenses paid for by the sponsor, even on that visa.
This assumes the mother is from outside of the EU.
She does the application process, costs about 3K, answer within about 6 months.
Then you have right to remain, but no access to public funds in any form for 5 years.
I don't think so? No recourse to public funds = things like jsa, housing benefits, social care etc. NHS treatment is separate and covered by the nhs immigration health surcharge.
Caporegime
You guys get way too edgy too fast.
Whilst I don't think he should bring his mother in law to the UK for "free treatment" a bunch of unemployed 40-year-old, unemployed men on OCUK calling him a scrounger isn't exactly what he asked for, but hey ho, you are all ****ed anyway!
Whilst I don't think he should bring his mother in law to the UK for "free treatment" a bunch of unemployed 40-year-old, unemployed men on OCUK calling him a scrounger isn't exactly what he asked for, but hey ho, you are all ****ed anyway!
I’ll leave my opinion out, but give you one fact.
Some 40 years back, after a last wild night out in Valencia, Spain, with my then inamorata, an American girl, we flew back to U.K.
All the way back she was complaining of pain in her shoulder, so much so, that after landing at Gatwick, I drove her to the now defunct Brook Hospital at Greenwich.
They diagnosed a dislocated shoulder, brought on by her wild gyrations to “Tiger Feet” by Mud no doubt.
They gave her a local anaesthetic, pulled the joint back to where it should be, gave her some pain killing tablets, and advised her to take it easy for a week or two.
We’d filled in her casualty admission form giving my address, but she had added that she was a U.S. citizen, giving her home address in Wildwood, NJ.
After the nurse gave her the pain killing meds, she asked for directions to the cashier’s office.
The nurse looked blankly at me, and I said, “She’s used to paying for treatment back home.”
The nurse said, “You’d better explain to her that she’s not back home now, we have the NHS here.”
As I drove her back to my place, she said, “How does that work?”
I explained about National Insurance deductions in U.K., and she said, “If you’ve been paying that since you started work, maybe I got my treatment on your nickel!”
I don’t think that she did, but neither of us heard any more about it.
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OP is surely on the wind up.
Caporegime
Yes i know how it works, thanks though, its a great story i guess.
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Op if true my sympathies for your situation, sadly it depends on your nationality and from that your legal rights on treatment.
Or the op knows this forum well & perfectly baited the gammon
Or the op knows this forum well & perfectly baited the gammon
Soldato
fact or opinion?
Given that claimed you voted for Brexit/Corbyn just to screw over your own country while leaving it to live in France, and then admitted you'd be happy to be a health tourist yourself, I suspect no one really cares for what you'd prefer, if you even really care at all.
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I looked into this recently, held the opposing understanding, and I think I am mistaken.
Interesting, the £3K application fee seems like a complete bargain for such a visa now
https://www.gov.uk/uk-family-visa/adult-dependent-relative
Soldato
Wow, Somebody actually reads the drivel I post!
Yes but not quite.
This part is very hard to prove:
- you need long-term care to do everyday personal and household tasks because of illness, disability or your age
- the care you need is not available or affordable in the country you live in
Most people won't be able to afford it.
Say one's elderly relative has been granted the visa, comes to UK and needs carers four times a day, that's approx £15k pa.
If they deteriorated and needed residential care thats £30k pa.
And then deteriorated and needed nursing care, thats £40k pa.
Say for 5 years, it's 2-2-1 year split for the above scenario...that's £130k over 5 years...
Caporegime
Why are you assuming all the posters are unemployed lol?
Caporegime
I went full retard for effect.
Caporegime
It's stereotyping.
Soldato
My guess would be the thread is a wind up 
But on the off chance it isnt, even if you have PR, to bring an elderly parent over is nigh on impossible nowadays, unless you can show they have strong reasons to return, even the chances of a visitor visa is very slim. But im speaking for NON EU cases here.
But on the off chance it isnt, even if you have PR, to bring an elderly parent over is nigh on impossible nowadays, unless you can show they have strong reasons to return, even the chances of a visitor visa is very slim. But im speaking for NON EU cases here.
Agreed, glad you had the balls to say it
Soldato
This has to be a wind up post