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The United Kingdom is now undoubtedly going ahead with Brexit, and based on recent history of now-powerful politicians, and the announcements earlier this year
by jlokier 7y ago
The United Kingdom is now undoubtedly going ahead with Brexit, and based on recent history of now-powerful politicians, and the announcements earlier this year on billboards everywhere, it looks likely that new visas will be required to travel between the UK and EU from 31st Jan 2020, and new conditions will come into force.
Those new visas and conditions are likely to be different for different classes of people as well. E.g. EU citizens, non-EU partners of EU citizens, EU partners of UK citizens, non-EU partners of UK citizens who entered via EU treaty rights, non-EU partners of UK citizens in well paid jobs who entered not-via-the-EU (different rules and status apply to them), the same but in non-well-paid jobs, EU citizens in well paid jobs, EU citizens in poorly paid jobs, children of EU citizens, students, recently graduated students, etc. And it seems that quite a lot of people don't know, yet, what class they are in, or whether they will be allowed to stay in the UK, either in the short term, or the long term.
A huge number of people regularly travel between UK and EU for work, holidays and family visits. Travelling between EU countries is almost like travelling between states in the USA - a lot of people do it fairly casually, and some do it almost as a commute.
Because of the changes, a fair number of people are interested in rules around dual citizenship, changes of citizenship (either people whose home is in the UK but they didn't need citizenship before, or people from the UK settled elsewhere in the EU who are now deciding whether to apply for change of citizenship to continue where they are), what rights they may have based on ancestry or other family connections which they previously did not need to investigate, the rights of their children, how much they need to earn to obtain different rights, how long applications take and how much they cost, etc.
On top of that, travelling across the border can jeopardise a person's applications, because it creates discontinuities of residence and the institutions judge such things arbitrarily, some of the time.
So information on visa requirements, conditions, and how different rules apply to different people may be something people will really need starting fairly soon.
Just saying, as I think the information could prove useful to many if it's made presentable and accessible (and isn't misleading), and for your site there might be a lot of visitors if it's the place to find out.
- 1hakr 7y agoDefinitely, i will start working on it right away, so lot of brits can benefit from visa list.
- TazeTSchnitzel 7y ago> it looks likely that new visas will be required to travel between the UK and EU from 31st Jan 2020 This is not true. Johnson's victory in the election makes it almost certain the EU withdrawal agreement will come into force, so there will be no new requirements until at least the end of 2020, due to the transition period.