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What baffles me is that in the new Brexit UK it seems not to be enough to be married for 27 years to a British citizen to get a permanent visa or even the citiz

• blibble 10y ago
  UK citizenship is granted by residence, not marriage. she had indefinite leave to remain (permanent residency), the only condition to keep it is you have to visit the UK at least once every 2 years, she then spent 8 years outside the UK without visiting, so she lost it. she had the option of taking UK citizenship after five years residence, but chose not to as Singapore doesn't allow dual citizenship. she wouldn't have been granted government accommodation in Singapore as she would be a foreign national the UK border force is literally blameless here, if anything they were over-compassionate in granting her another visa after she overstayed previously, which lead to the eventual detention and deportation
• DaUR 10y ago
  Except she "knew that when I got indefinite leave to remain I can't stay outside of the country for more than two years". This is what she, herself, said. The title seems almost cynical when she could have avoided this whole ordeal had she followed procedure, which she admits she was familiar with. Also, blaming this on "Brexit UK" is transparently inflammatory since the requests for leave were made, and rejected, a decade before Brexit was even a question.