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Begining the process
Appeals start with the lodging of an appeal with the Tribunal. A grounds of appeal document is drafted for the client. The lodging of the appeal with the grounds of appeal which includes assessing the refusal is priced at £360.00. Clients can ask the court to look at the papers without appearing in court which the court charges £80 for or for a hearing where they will be present which is charged by the court at £140.00. If the client is a no income case, we will seek to obtain a fee remission from the Tribunal.
The appeal
The average appeal takes us approximately 20 hours to complete the work, although there may be cases when the preparation takes longer, for this reason our charge based on our hourly rate of £120 per hour is fixed at £2400.00. There will be cases where we decide to reduce the charge where the estimation for the completion of work falls below 20 hours.
Appeal work typically involves preparing witness statements, chronology, skeleton arguments, responding to a respondents review, creating a bundle of documents to evidence the arguments. Client's are provided with copies of the work we undertake.
The hearing
We instruct barristers to advocate for you in court. The fee you are charged for this service is £500.00. As we are the instructing agents, the Chambers will address the charge to us , we however collect these fees from you and hold them in our trust in advance of the hearing and then transfer the funds to the chambers when the hearing is completed.
Administrative Reviews
This is where the UKVI provide an opportunity to you to highlight errors in their decision making. Our charge for assisting you with a reveiw matter is £740.00.
Other matters
Uploading documents to the UKVI and postage are disbursements which you are responsible for. Our admin may upload your documents, if you do not wish for the authorities to do this or prefer in house handling, for a charge if, you request this.
Todays question was about domestic violence to partners of skilled workers. Sorry to say the Domestic Violence rule does not cover skilled workers. The rational probably is that the skilled work visa is a temporary visa allowing residence in exchange for work. The partner of permanent residents route is much different there is permanence in the equations and this allows for relief in situations where there is domestic abuse. My answer is regrettably, if you leave your marriage as a skilled worker for a domestic abuse reason, then unless you have an alternative reason to apply to remain in the UK - you should consider leaving to resume your life in the last country you lived in or otherwise your country of origin.
This is not as tricky as it sounds, what you need know first of all is whether you meet the financial requirement with demonstrable earning of £29.000 in the year of the application. Therefore if you have had more than one job, it can be the cumulative amount that count towards the relevant figure. The UKVI require evidence of the work you are undertaking such as contracts, pay remits, bank statements and other documents that show you are in genuine employment. It is open to them to make checks to verify information you choose to submit.
This post explains who is a partner as applies to the spouse visa criteria.
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Bringing your Spouse to the UK Episode 3- English Language Exemptions Partner/Spouse Visa exemptions discussed in a broadcast brought to you by Lawson Hunte Immigration Radio 24.
In this episode, Sonya discusses the English Language Requirements as this pertains to the spouse visa. Exemptions will be explored in a subsequent broadcast. This broadcast is brought to you by Lawson Hunte Immigration Radio 24 keeping it real and educating a nation.
This is a discussion by Sonya King Immigration Lawyer on bringing a spouse to the UK. It is a general overview of starting a spouse visa application. The next Episode is titled Speaking the Language.
Sour milk is a violence to the stomach, just as is the fist. In this series Mwansa discusses the question of myths surrounding domestic violence. Unravelling mysteries and lies.
In this post, our very own reporter Mwansa Chikonde seeks to clarify and educate on why women stay in abusive relationships. We hope this is an enlightening and engaging post and would welcome your comments. Find us on Lawson Hunte Immigration Radio 24 on spotify.