How to become a British Citizen in 2023 - All possible visa routes
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- There are so many new visas that make it easier than ever to climb the path to British citizenship.
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The "NO SPORTSPERSON" right across the front of my BRP makes me laugh every time 😂
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Like at least try
YES 😂😂😂😂😂
Evan your videos on this subject have been so helpful and encouraging for me as an American also hopefully on the path to British citizenship, Thank you!!!
Evan got such high potential, he worked a job for 2 years between 2018 and 2019
Good information.
Suella Braverman is trying to change that Graduate Visa. She wants to scale it down to 6 months instead of 2 years. Yikes!
!!UPDATE!! Since January 31, 2024, individuals traveling to the United Kingdom have been allowed to work remotely while visiting.
Evan, I don’t normally post comments, but I have a lot to thank you for. I discovered your videos as a sophomore in high school - I watched your US vs. UK videos religiously and took note of any information you shared about UK VISAs and the technical parts of moving to the UK or studying there full time. It became a dream of mine to get my full bachelor‘s degree in England and hopefully live in the UK for a while after graduation before prancing around Italy and The Netherlands and as many countries as I can to find a home (shocker: I don‘t want to live in the US). Thanks to your videos, by the end of my sophomore year I had developed an entire plan as to how I would obtain my student visa/tier 4 visa and move overseas. I knew more about this than anyone at my school, even guidance counselors and teachers who told me it was not possible to fully enroll in a UK university and that I should just study abroad for a semester. Luckily, I didn‘t listen to them, but then COVID happened.
I got depressed and didn‘t care about my future anymore. I didn‘t think I wanted pursue higher education, so by the time I started my senior year and it was expected of me to apply for colleges, I only applied to a few schools in and around New England to „keep my options open“. Well, that went better than I thought, and I ended up getting a $60,000/year scholarship from NYU. Everyone was so excited for me, but one, it was for a program I didn‘t like, and two, it meant I gave up on my dream. Anyways, I ended up dropping NYU. I took this gap year to focus on work and applying to a ton of schools over in England. I will now be studying in Kent for a bachelor‘s in Drama & Theatre, and I‘m in the middle of the student VISA process now.
If it weren‘t for your channel and the videos you posted, who knows where I would be right now. I can‘t say I would have been gearing up to move to England this September. I also would have spent LOADS more on my degree in the US, even with that scholarship. I‘m so glad you‘re still posting these kinds of videos to help more people understand how VISAs actually work and get an idea of what they should research. It’s so wonderful that you‘re now a UK citizen as well.
For all of this, thank you a thousand times!
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Congrats and good for you. I hope you like England (Scotland,Wales etc ) so much you choose to live here.
What a cool post. 😊
It's always been my dream to live in the UK but I didnt have an Evan back in the day, before I made many..."prohibitive" life choices. 😕 But ya never know, maybe I'll still get there someday.
Best of luck to you! 👍🏼😁
I have also used Evan's videos as a guide for so many things since I found out I was moving to England. From visas to taxes and weird culture things. Great springboard to start my own research.
I’m glad you commented! What an inspiring story. I hope you’ll go on to vlog about it and inspire others in turn. You’ve got your first subscriber!
Congrats! Inspiring story. I wish you luck on your journey!
Idk why I am watching this I am 17 and a british citizen
mate I'm 17 tryna figure this out for no reason
People from the US especially TX and FL want to move to the UK or some other country because of what their state government is being run and some people in the UK want to move to the US for the same reasons it’s kind of ironic. 😅😊😂
For some people the UK's a better fit for others the US is a better fit 🤷🏾♂️
Watched an excellent interview with Ron DeSantis and a British journalist recently, he spoke publicly about his sisters death in London during 2015.
@@john_smith1471 I will look up that interview as I am definitely interested seeing it
For me I would rather to leave in UK why there’s no shooting crime in UK compared in US…
Meanwhile people who aren’t supposed to be in the uk are arriving every day on rubber boats whilst left wing judges are stopping them being turned around. The only people getting rich are scum bag people smugglers
Glad I got out and am living in the most boring humourless country in the world NZ. I was in Dubai for 16 years and that’s where I am going back to.
I remember first discovering your channel years ago as a Californian in San Diego who had never left the US before and thinking "it would be so cool to move to the UK one day." I watch your channel regularly and absorb as much information about the UK as possible. Last year, I studied abroad in Glasgow for a semester, graduated with my BA in California (Visual Arts). At the end of March this year, I moved to London to do my Master's in Film and TV Production and I start my course tomorrow. I actually got excited hearing you talking about the Creative Worker Visa! I plan on getting a Graduate Visa after I get my MA, and though a theoretical British Citizenship is a long ways away, watching this video has put a smile on my face and reminded me how far I've come. A lot of that is thanks to your videos (which have also inspired me to make my own and improve my photography). So, a huge thank you, Evan. :))
I'm so happy seeing all the comments saying they got inspired to just, go for it and study abroad. Welcome to Europe! Enjoy your stay here.
This is so inspiring! I hope your Masters program is going well so far
Hi! I’m thinking of studying filmmaking in UK, can you share your experience so far? What school do you go to?
There's actually 1 new visa introduced last year called "Scale-up visa" that gives you the right to work in the UK for a company that can sponsor you (just like the Skilled worker visa). However, the best thing about this visa is you are only "tied" to your initial sponsorship for 6 months, so after 6 months you can leave your current employer to find a new job without needing a new visa sponsorship. I wish they implement this new visa as a revision to Skilled worker visa instead of creating a new visa category
Oh wow that looks like a good visa. I wonder is it harder to obtain than the normal work visa? Not being tied to a specific employer after 6 months sounds too good to be true
Ok I googled and it is too good to be true. Only a handful of companies are approved for the scale-up visa. So it’s almost impossible to find a job for this visa
@@nicktankard1244 yes there are some requirements to it but I think it's almost easy (might be wrong, I have never run any business). What makes me disappointed is why did the government can't just replace the old Skilled Worker visa with this beautiful visa :(
@@anthonyviriya4446 it makes nonsense to me either. Countries that do work visas tied to your employer for several years are really not great. Canada does that and Germany. Being able to work for only one employer for years is very stressful. You’re constantly in fear of losing your job and feel like a visa slave. 6-12 months is more than enough I think. 5 years is ridiculous in today’s economy when companies have no loyalty and do layoffs left and right.
@@nicktankard1244 totally agree, especially with the current economic climate, anyone might be out of job tomorrow and it’s not their fault
Started following your content shortly before coming to the UK for university, I hope to one day escape the hell hole of the USA and this is definitely a help, even if I don't stay here
I’m British and I want to escape the hell hole here😂
Immigration is so frustrating. I’ve changed countries twice in the last 5 years. And both had complicated visa problems.
I’ve always wanted to live in the UK but they make it very hard to move there. I am so depressed and tired of this visa hell. Can’t really feel like i belong anywhere and I can’t go back to my home country because of political reasons and I don’t really want to.
I wanted to come to the UK because my dream job was here. I got it, and I really like it, but now I've got a chronic illness and need surgery, and the last time a specialist saw me was last year, and I won't be seen again until August. I'm in pain all day every day, and life feels like hell. I've thought about getting surgery abroad like a friend did. This year, I can apply for ILR, but I'm not sure I want to, because it is expensive, and on top of that, I may need multiple surgeries and I'm not getting adequate healthcare.
@@MsBimbobear sorry to hear that. I’m actually in a similar position in Canada. Except it might be even worse over here. The wait times are insane as well and it’s very hard to find a doctor. But in order to apply for a permanent residency in Canada you need to pass a medical examination. And if they deem that your or any of your relatives(even the ones that don’t plan to come to Canada) treatment will be too much of a burden on the healthcare system you will be denied. Now I’m stressed that my application will be denied. Not very nice of them to discriminate on health. Especially for people who have been living here for a while. What am I to do if my health gets bad while I’m here? And your visa is tied to an employer so if you lose your job or can’t work you’re screwed.
Just go to another country, we don't need more people... go away
As someone who works as an international student advisor in the U.S., hearing about the similarities and differences between the U.S. and UK systems is very interesting.
Can you expand on this?
The fact that they specifically prohibit professional sports for a lot of these visas, I definitely think there's a story behind that 😆😆
it's actually a scheme to keep the British football teams more... "british"... i wish i was joking
I recall that at one time (around the turn of the century I think?), most of the "English" cricket team were not British, there were cricketers from Australia, South Africa, someone from the Caribbean, a few from the Subcontinent, etc. I'm from one of those countries and I found it amusing that England did not have enough native born sporting talent to field a competitive team made up from locals.
@@Dave_Sisson that still happens in the 21st century. Kevin Peterson the cricketer is South African but played for England, and mo farah was from Somalia before he was smuggled into the UK as an asylum seeker, now he's a multi Olympic medal winner.
There are many other examples I could give.
Also to note we also allow people to play for national teams if they were educated for a period of time in that country. Several Scottish footballers have done this.
There is the stand alone professional sports visa so its probably to reduce those whose visa would be declined from being able to find a loophole
@@OptrixTV ❤ hold it
0:42 Visitor Visa
2:15 student visa
5:32 Graduate visa
6:50 Skilled Worker Visa (previously Tier 2)
10:11 Global Talent Visa
09:12 £24k per hour sounds pretty cute😉
Broadly correct, but two corrections.
For the Ancestry visa, you must prove that at least one of your grandparents was *born* in the UK. The grandparent merely being a British citizen living in the UK does not count. Which is why the descendants of many migrants whose children moved out of the UK would not qualify. The grandparent needs a UK (including the whole of Ireland before 1921) birth certificate for their grandchild to qualify.
As for the family visa, you do not need to prove a marriage for two years. You need to prove that you are either (a) legally married in a jurisdiction whose marriage is recognised by the UK OR (b) you have lived together as a couple for a period of at least two continuous years. Option B is for unmarried couples.
Note that the UK has policies not recognising polygamous marriages for the purposes of visa sponsorship, even if those marriages were conducted in jurisdictions whose marriages are otherwise recognised.
Love the description of ILR as "citizenship lite", because that is exactly what it is. Indeed, if you have Commonwealth citizenship (citizenship of any of the 54 Commonwealth countries), before ILR, you can legally vote in all elections in the UK. And after you get ILR, a Commonwealth citizen can be elected MP and could theoretically become Prime Minister without being a British citizen, let alone that whole "natural born citizen" American nonsense.
Another important point missed out was that for the family visa, the British citizen must demonstrate an annual income of at least £18,600 for the partner, plus additional amounts for any dependent non-British children included in the application.
While that may sound cheap in the US and some other countries, ~30-40% of the UK workforce earn less than that threshold and are therefore unable to sponsor their spouses at all.
@@girish2001 this is the combined income of you and your partner, so if your partner is transitioning from a different visa, their income can also be included.
Honestly I think £18,600 requirement is reasonable, you'd really struggle to support 2 people on less than that in most areas of the UK
Option B is also for when you are applying to extend your family visa - you do have to provide evidence that you have been living together for two years.
@@girish2001This is £18600 per year before tax - I think it's doable. You would have to earn more, yes, if the children are not British citizens. Also, you could be self- employed, or combine income from different jobs.
Up to the middle of the process it's surprisingly similar to me in Canada.
International Student (2 year permit) -> post-graduate work permit (2 year permit cuz I studied for 2) -> permanent resident (faster cuz I studied/ had work exp in 🇨🇦 ) and now I just passed the citizenship test so this year I'll do the same embarrassing swearing in while looking into The King's eyes Evan had to do.😊
I got a UK passport 10 years ago, but this topic still gives me anxiety! The new graduate visa sounds so good! Back in the day, I was so stressed when my student visa was running out, while I was looking for a company that would be prepared to go through the whole work permit palaver for me!
Thank you for this summary, Evan, I think it will help so many people!
Just one important point of clarification on the UK Ancestry visa. There are actually two stipulations: You must have at least one grandparent (living or dead) who was born in the UK, AND you must be a Commonwealth (or British overseas territory) citizen. This is a tricky little stipulation that unfortunately excludes US citizens, for instance.
Source: South African living in the UK on an Ancestry visa.
I was just looking at London videos and then you show up lol, showing love from Houston ❤
It’s a shame that we can’t simply find someone else and then agree to swap citizenship with each other, inform relevant authorities and carry on.
No Mastercards here 😅. This is why Evan is the master of puns.
THIS IS SO AWESOME TO KNOW. Also, such an interesting way to learn about it. You are awesome
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It's interesting to see the names of the visas updated to what they are. I like them lol. Working towards that ILR wooo!!
The thing that is often misunderstood about ILR is that it really is indefinite (unless you do something heinous like murder someone). If you leave the UK for more than 2 years, your residency does expire. But you do not have to go through all that fuss to get it back.
Once you've been granted ILR, you can return to the UK under a "Returning Resident" visa. This is fairly straightforward, all you really have to do is show that your visit is for the purposes of residing, not just a tourist visit (e.g. you've got a job lined up, or you've rented or bought a place, etc). There is a fee, but it's not the thousands of pounds that was originally spent getting ILR.
Having said that, it's faintly absurd that it does expire after two years. But at least it's not a "start again from the very beginning" thing.
Thank you for this video, I’m from the USA and lived in the UK for three years as a child and plan to live there again when I’m done with college.
I wish the UK hadn't done away with the retirement visa or 'person of independent means'. I lived and worked in the UK for 6 years so I don't meet the requirement for 10 continuous years. I'm nearing retirement age and I get the UK wants to stem migration, so it seems my only avenue is to work longer than I want to in order to get a 'remain to leave' visa.
I was born in Britain to British parents who emigrated to New Zealand when I was kid, while my fiancee is an American with a British mother. So, we both know a fair bit about visas and get a lot of questions from family/friends about visa processes.
The best advice I can give anyone who is in for the long haul in settling in another country permanently is: Understand that it's a privilege, not an entitlement. During covid, we had quite a few British and American friends who decided that they wanted to come to New Zealand, and were genuinely surprised to discover that they couldn't just turn up and work in their chosen field right off the bat, unless they had skills in an area that was in demand. Simply holding the passport of a certain country or being a certain age doesn't mean a red carpet gets rolled out for you (this is most relevant to Brits, as some do think the commonwealth connection means you're automatically entitled to residency in places like Canada or NZ). It also takes several years in most countries to reach a permanent status where you have full travel rights, and in the meantime, you have to think about how adverse events like family illnesses or job losses could derail your visa plan. This is to say 'don't do it' but to make sure you go in with your eyes wide open - moving countries permanently is long hard slog, but totally worth it if that's what you really want.
Lol, we EU citizens are truly blessed. At least within the EU.
@@ApfelFlixbut do you really want to live and work in most places in the eu.
Just a note about the UK Ancestry Visa (unless they've now changed it), along with proving one of your grandparents was from the UK, you also need to be from a Commonwealth country, so wouldn't work for US citizens. I'm from Australia, and my grandpa was from Scotland, so I just had to provide his birth certificate (which was a bit of a faff to get), along with my dad's birth certificate and mine, to prove the family connection. I also had to show that I had enough finances to support myself.
Just wanted to point out something really quick - you do not need to have lived together for the Spouse or Fiancée visa (I would know!), that requirement is only for the Unmarried Partner visa. Also they do 100% need you to submit things like chat logs to prove your relationship. The website is intentionally confusing and misleading. Your UK partner also needs to earn a minimum of £18600 in order to sponsor their partner (or have a ton of savings).
Correct (no proof of cohabitation required for spouses). Clarification needed: £18600 per year GROSS - before tax - required for a sponsor to sponsor a partner or a spouse UNLESS the sponsor is in receipt of some benefits.
WAIT EVAN!!!! IRS loophole???? How can I find out more about his??? I got US student loans and am trying to stay in the UK permanently
Did you find out more about this...I'm curious as well
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Jus get on a small dinghy in France and sail towards Uk, free meals and hotels!
The run down on the visas was interesting. I do have to say, gbp 42,400 is not a very high salary here in the US. The median for full time workers is around usd 54,000, so if you work at the sort of company where you could transfer to a foreign office, the salary requirement is not going to be a problem.
It’s also worth mentioning that the ICT visa doesn’t grant you ilr status, so if you want to get ilr status and get citizenship, you’ll have to switch to a different visa and build up years on that to get that.
I knew about the Tier Skilled Worker visas but I didn't realise there were so many others. I'll definitely have to look into these. As someone who's a couple of months shy of getting their Library Technician Certification I'm very curious to know which visas I would qualify for. I of course eventually want to get citizenship but right now my main concern is securing a job and visa once I finish my certification and get some experience under my belt.
So nothing for mere mortals who are not highly educated and skilled
It is no longer possible to come from other countries and work in the UK, for example, in a warehouse and the like jobs?
Man, those fees! I moved from the United States as a skilled worker and naturalized in Iceland for a total cost (including citizenship application) of about US$520. Of course, someone setting out to immigrate to Iceland would have a lot more barriers to overcome related to finding a skilled job here, etc. But, at least with my Icelandic passport, I can live and work anywhere in the EU/EEA or Switzerland. ;)
I was living in UK for 20 years I had my work there,my life there,my friends I have returned back home for couple of years back home and the next thing Im not alowed to work there and had my life back there because of the brexit how absured is this!
Damn that's harsh, I got lucky and managed to get ILR but honestly it feels like things are getting so much worse. If it wasn't for the industry I want to get into being pretty big in the UK I'd probably leave.
Hi! You did a very good job explaining all the visas available, but perhaps you can make a road map that really guide us through the process of getting a UK CZ from scratch
As someone born in the UK who has always lived here, I love watching these videos to educate myself on this process! I wish I could send them to my daily mail reading nan lol
Evan I just wanted to thank you for creating the content you do, comparing British and American perspectives, explanations on a foreigner's insights on living in the UK, and these visa videos. I got approved for my ancestry visa last week and my flight over is tonight. Looking forward to starting a new chapter. Your videos were extremely informative and helpful for considering and planning how to go about my move. Keep making this amazing content and I'm sure we'll all keep watching!🤘
Hope you’re enjoying your time!
You made this convoluted and somewhat tedious subject quite fascinating. I think you would give a great TED talk.
Aww thanks!
My partner is one of the millions of EU expats living in the UK for years, has settled status but is looking at becoming a citizen just for the right to vote in the country she lives in. The fact that it's so expensive seems to put a lot of people off, meaning that people can have lived here for 20+ years are still not entitled to vote. I doubt that's a co-incidental, but seems ludicrous to me!
What’s the reverse procedure for Brits in their home country? The whole thing is so stupid. UK….we have a skilled AND non skilled worker shortage. I know let’s piss off a whole group of people who are already here and supporting our economy. 🤦🏻♀️
So many EU nationals had lived in the UK for years and didn’t find it necessary to get British citizenship until brexit. It was a lot easier for EU nationals before brexit.
Another way to become a British Citizen, this is the route I am in the middle of taking, is joining the British Army (keep in mind, this is only for commonwealth citizens). When they opened up the applications to overseas applicants in 2019, I joined the Army, I did have to get a visitor visa until basic training started, where I then got an exemption stamp on my passport. I am now just over a year away from getting ILR. Currently applications for overseas commonwealth applicants are closed, but you can still apply, your application will be kept on file as more roles become available.
Guys please don’t do this cos it’s not worth it 🤦🏾♂️
Annoyingly, the work you do on a graduate visa does NOT count toward the 5 years of working for ILR
Hi Evan! Thanks for the educational video :) I was wondering, if I were to do an internship with a home office approved company for 3-6 months, would I have to obtain a skilled worker visa?
My plan as of now is to work as a probation officer upon moving to the UK, which I know the MoJ could sponsor me for. Thanks in advance for your help!
As an Indian living in Germany, I wish someone made a similar video for Germany 😁
You just have to be as British as Queen Victoria...as in be half-German and marry a German.
Well, you could do it....
I lived in Germany for 3 years in a very restricted work visa. And untimely left because I was so tired of being on temporary visas and now being able to do anything except work for one employer. Constants stress. Now I’m in Canada and visas here are also pretty complicated and my future here is not certain.
As a Canadian immigrant this is pretty much exactly how the system works there. The Graduate Visa system (called something else in Canada) is so nice to have just incase you can't find a suitable job directly after graduation. Love to hear the UK has implemented it as well.
As a british citizen whose parents were immigrants, idk why I'm here, Ig i just like the channel and puns?
keep it u Evan!
I'm a Canadian about to apply for ILR from an expiring Tier 2 visa. This video made my day! :) Haha
Your videos have been keeping me company on my journey to my visa and eventual citizenship, so thank you!
Watching this as someone born in the UK really makes me realize how lucky I am to never have had to jump through these hoops if I did end up wanting to move as a non-citizen
What are the best US to UK immigration consultant?
You are hilarious!!😂 I appreciate this video 😊
I (27 british man) have been dating my girlfriend (22 american woman) for a year and she has visited me for 3 months in total and ive visited her for a month in vegas. We are going to get married and hopefully get the family visa, although it seems stupidly difficult. I dont fully understand why the government get to decide who i marry and live with.
you could get the fiancée visa and get married within 6 months. Even for some reason didn't mention this route in the video. This visa doesn't required you having to prove you've lived together prevoiusly.
Plenty of people in the past just got married and then left their partner within 1--12 months , some of the new partners even paid the British partner
Marry and stay with the guy for two years. That's what those hot chick Ukranian women do,it happened to my friends partner. Once they've got ALL the money and the citizenship they move on.
@@rokuro80 Yeah i think that might be the best bet. Im just hoping that once weve paid for that visa and the wedding that the family visa is easier.
@@JoshuaHill182 I wouldn't recommend the fiance visa, that way you pay additional £1500 and she can't work for the 6 months she's in the UK for the wedding. Get married somewhere else (Vegas?) and apply for the partner visa directly - that's what I did and am now happily in the UK with my husband :)
Bro your videos are super useful, and you are a hell of a story teller
Glad you like them!
My route was much easier because it was 30+ years ago. I came in on a young person's visa - for people who had finished university and were spending a bit of time doing other stuff - and was able to work with that. However, I was actually already engaged to a British man who I had met a few years before. A year after we married I transitioned to ILR. The Home Office were horrible to me. They lost my documents (including my passport) for several months and then blamed me for the hold-up. Every communication was aggressive and had the tone of I was so lucky that they were even considering me. My husband had to intervene on my behalf several times. As a Commonwealth citizen (Canadian) it turned out I actually had voting rights anyway but I decided to go for full citizenship - mostly for the EU rights, Ha!! That didn't last. Now the main benefit is that I can go through the same passport lane as my family when we travel.
Sometimes the "3rd country national" lane is actually faster ;)
The family visa costs are absolutely insane. My girlfriend is Vietnamese and we're getting married this year. We might be going to live in the UK in a few years and it's just ridiculous. For just a two and a half year visa, it's over £1,500 (just to apply - you might get rejected and they keep it) and then another over £1,500 for the NHS surcharge (which of course you don't get back if you get a job and start paying National Insurance anyway). And then hilariously they have a minimum income requirement to make sure that you can afford to support your spouse. Maybe I could afford to support her if you hadn't just taken over 3 grand off me. Imagine how much quicker you could avoid being a burden on the state if you could put that 3 grand towards a deposit for a house, for example.
Most countries rinse immigrants, because they can't vote and so can't really complain. And the people who design the system never have to actually use it. But the UK really takes the biscuit. I'm just hoping that the Tories get voted out and Labour change things. Unfortunately, they Tories have ruined so many things that I doubt this sort of thing will be a top priority. Maybe we should just move to Australia or something.
If you can put 3 grand towards a deposit for a house then you've got money anyway. 😂
A better example would be towards rent, as a safety net etc.
I'm in a similar situation except my girlfriend already lives and works in the UK on a graduate visa.
From reading the website, you only need to meet the income requirements if your partner wants to reach ILR in 5 years. If you just want to stay for a few years on the visa it shouldn't be a problem.
Also, savings aren't required to meet the income criteria, as long as you're earning £18,600+ you're okay.
This is positive news for Evan, qualified, skilled and self reliant, and last year 500k applicants that wanted to come, did their research, went through the process and moved to Britain, all legal and signed off.
It’s the easiest thing on earth.
1. You come to France and cross the channel by boat.
2. Call the UK coast guard on arrival.
3. Done!
You’ll get free money, hotel and stay. Then you bring your family.
And considering their intellect and ambition is likely to be greater than yours, they’ll be much more useful to the county than you.
Nice vid! You forgot to mention however about the EU Settlement Scheme. I currently study in the UK and have pre-settled status
Step 1: Don't. Pick some place better. 😂
Was I born in the UK, Yes, Did I still watch the entire video? Also yes.
Bro I’m Form Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 can I switch from visitor visitor visa to a temp stay or either extend it ?
Thanks for information,love the videos.Cheers from Connecticut USA.Could you do video on mortgage system and real estate terms(freehold,chain free, leases on apartment 999 yrs.Very appreciated.
7:40 The US has the same sort of labor market test with the H1B visa, which is the most common visa I've seen here in tech. It also has similar equivalent salary rules.
I've been flirting with the idea of leaving the US for years now, but damn if I didn't fall in love with a career that makes it seem virtually impossible, due to countries wanting you to actually "live there" for the majority of the year.
See I work on ships, which means I'm usually only on land for about 4 months out of the year (non-consecutively) which makes it impossible to meet any of the travel restrictions countries have for visas when on the path towards citizenship. I know the UK has exceptions for seafarers, but you have to be working for a British company, which I do not. I've had friends and family say to either quit my job and find something on land that can transfer or just work for a British company, but I just signed my life away for 2 years with my current company so that's not gonna happen anytime soon (plus even with all their problems I do really enjoy working where I am now, and would like to continue).
Wish there was something like a seafarer visa, would make my life so much easier. (Like I just want to move to Wales is that such a bad thing )
You're crazy. I like your energy. Thanks for this very informative video.
My wife did the English language test for spouse and was shocked how easy it was. It's clearly a harder one if you're not a spouse.
That depends - but generally spouses only need to pass an A1 test initially.
Its worth mentioning that the home office can legally take up to 6 months to decide on ILR applications and during this time you cannot leave the UK. So this is all a way to force people to pay the £500 priority surcharge, bringing the actual bill to £2904.
I had similar concerns but I talked to citizens advice and you can continue to live and work in the UK under the terms of your previous visa as long as you applied before that visa expired.
They clearly want you to pay that fee. If you have a sponsor, then likely they will be paying for the visa, except for ILR. I didn't have to pay the NHS surcharge either.
make something like this for every country lol make it a series, low key, huge potential (also, if u do, make one for Canada 😂)
The graduate visa is cool! Similar to dutch visa (zoekjaar or “search year”) for finding a job after uni. Really helpful fir people wishing to stay after studies!
How to get a british citizenship in 2023: be born in Britain
Thank you for this video. Now I live in the UK on a "Homes for Ukraine" visa (Family Scheme for 3 years). Fortunately, it's free and I have almost all of the benefits like the right to work or NHS (I'm not sure if could I be a professional sportsman). But the future of this program is quite uncertain and despite the so long term, it doesn't lead even close to ILR.
Welcome to the UK! I hope you and your family are OK and you have the option to either settle permanently or return to a safe home someday! ❤🟦🟨❤
Kinda have to ask. Why would someone want to become a British citizen today post Brexit instead of an EU member like Ireland or Netherlands or Sweden? 🤔
The changes sound like they are looking to align with the migration options that match Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. CAZNUK might just happen
They made me take an English test despite English being my native language. In the essay section I wrote about my frustration at having to write the test in the first place.
I'm going to guess that the "masseuse" thing is to prevent a loophole for foreign sex workers... like maybe in the past that's how they we're able to bring people into the UK "legitimately" and put them to work as a "masseuse"(sex worker) ... the sports thing is probably to keep teams from importing more talented players from foreign countries... kind of similar to the masseuse thing if you think about it
7:30 sorry but that's not xenophobic, that's making it fair. Some companies will discriminate against their own citizens in favor of foreign employees. In order to keep things fair, it makes sense to prove you've offered that position to anyone beforehand and it just so happened the best option was a foreign, instead of you favoring a foreign and not giving a national a chance.
But what if, in your home country, picking fruit and looking after poultry is considered a sport and you do it at an elite level?
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This is a great video sweetie but I’m in my 50s and I’m just wanting to move to Scotland and be retired 😊can u help me with a video on how to move for older people thanks
I'll definitely save this,
I think you missed the Religious preacher visa ahah but hey man, appreciate all the fun, i mean, info xD
The estimated time period mentioned at 0:01 is for EU or non-EU people because the requirements for EU and non-EU people are different.
As an American, it's interesting that you ascribe the UK leaving the EU to xenophobia.
Firstly, it is about sovereignty. I dont see the USA applying to the EU, nor making suggestions about following the same model for the American continents...and I'm fairly certain that is because Americans would not agree to surrendering their sovereignty.
It's also reasonable to be able to plan for demand on housing, skills shortages, infrastructure and public services...not least for comprehensive public health services...something that the USA refuses to countenance.
It's also appropriate to have an immigration system that doesnt privilege the wealthiest, whitest most Christian countries compared to RoW opportunities. Why should someone from Belgium have privilege above someone from Brazil, Bahamas, Botswana, Bangladesh, Bhutan or Brunei...or indeed, the USA.
Brexit was not about stopping migration either way, but about being able to manage it in accordance with available resource capacity and genuine job opportunity.
Between 2000 and 2023, the UK population rose sharply and quickly from 58.5m to nearly 69m, so an 18% uplift. For context, that's the entire population of Sweden, Portugal or Greece...take your pick.
Population density in the UK is 278 people per sq km. The USA is 34.6 people per sq km. The USA landmass is 40 times bigger than the UK, with a population of only 4.5 times the UK.
The UK is geographically a small country, the USA is immense, with many, many, many times the natural resources to support its population.
It is completely reasonable to have a sensible migration policy...after all the USA has one too.
I am delighted you have found the UK to your liking and have settled here, and as part of that, perhaps it would be at least polite to fully understand all the reasons behind the decisions to leave the EU and not simply to disparage.
As an additional exercise, you might also want to understand more about EU trade policies, tariff and non tariff trade barriers, the UKs service based economy, the different EU economies and the degree to which their trade is good or services and intra or extra EU, and why the UK might want to have more freedom to promote its services and goods industry to RoW.
If you think that’s what brexit was originally about you haven’t been paying the slightest bit of attention. It was a fringe issue until the xenophobes (mainly UKIP) capitalised on the devastation caused by austerity, starting in 2010, by blaming easy scapegoats. We made most of the rules and had a veto. Now we have no say in the governing of a trading superpower on our doorstep. We’ve been living with the economic devastation ever since, including 4% off GDP. See the UK governments own OBR reports for the reality. You talk of the UK’s service based economy but do you have any idea what the affect has been? 100 billion a year in lost output according to Bloomberg. If you haven’t been immersed in it don’t involve yourself in telling others who have been what it was about.
@@juliusklugi7430 No, I have been paying plenty of attention to all of it. I also bothered to look at all the issues, pros and cons, challenges, benefits and areas of concern.
The EEC and later EU, on which no referendum was held, has always been contentious for an enormous variety of reasons.
Do you think Norway and Iceland, or Switzerland, are xenophobic and racist? They do not wish to be in the EU.
So glad the rule about companies needing to prove they couldn’t hire a British person instead is gone. A close friend of mine left the country after her degree because she graduated in the middle of Covid and this rule made it basically impossible to get a job.
Alright, Evan, I have to bite -- fellow US/UK dual citizen, who's been resident in the UK for the last 15 years. My initial entry was on a Student visa for graduate school. Through marriage I extended, then got ILR (before the requirement was 5 years residency; I squeaked in before the limits raised), I've *got* to ask about your comment re: student loans on the Graduate scheme (because they are exactly how I provided proof of my funding when I arrived).
On *what* advice are you operating on 2:19 stating that if you get US Federal student loans, "If you plan on living permanently in the UK, you never have to pay that back"?
I have ALL my student loan debt still and I can't think of any way this would be feasible unless one is intending to just not pay them back, purposely default on them, and stay incommunicado? (Which doesn't seem like a wise idea.)
My loans absolutely still exist, and I have to go through the hoops every year of filing to prove level of income to make them income-based repayments (current loan freeze notwithstanding), and it is a pain in the *ass*. Apart from continuing to delay and file income based repayment paperwork every year and waiting out the 25-30 years until they're forgiven, I don't understand where this advice comes from...
Thing is Evan, minimum wage in the UK is £10.42, so working a 40 hour week job will get you £21,673.60. So saying no poor cause of a £25k need, its not too much more than minimum wage. Doing a few hours of overtime a week will cover the difference, especially if its at 1.5x or even 2x per hour. Ive had jobs in the past where my salary was £22k a year, and then because of overtime, ive walked away with almost £35k. It all depends on you and your circumstances. But its always good to look at things like this.
As a British citizen i would never think to look at any of this information, so it is super interesting, love the no sport rules, LOL, made me laff everytime when you said "no Rugby", who in their right mind wants to play Rugby. LOL
Opening Britain up to more foreign skilled labour from outside of the EU was always genuinely one of the things BREXIT was genuinely about. Claims BREXIT was a xenophobic cause were always false slander, which too many people sadly believed. Thanks to BREXIT, the UK is no longer forced to follow the EUs extremely draconian and obstructive visa rules for non-EU citizens and no longer forced by the EU to only easily accept EU citizens within UK borders and UK employment. The UK can now finally once again begin to easily accept citizens from countries outside of the EU. In the future, the UK hopes to create visa-free immigration deals for US, Canadian, Australian, New Zealander and other Non-EU countries citizens. All thanks to BREXIT.
Since brexit there has been an explosion in immigration from non EU countries especially coming from commonwealth nations like India, Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Jamaica etc. & ever since brexit more of my family from Jamaica & the US have migrated & others including myself are in the process
@@Lando-kx6so Exactly, that was always one of BREXIT's major desires and intentions.
Visa-free immigration for Canadians sounds promising. I’m not a Canadian citizen yet but I live here. Canada is nice but I always wanted to live in the UK. Maybe one day
Yeah amazing change. What with the 4% lost off GDP, devastated service industry, £7 billion worth of food inflation, and £100 billion a year in lost economic output. Source? Bloomberg, LSE and best of all your Brexit governments own OBR reports! But I suppose if you get your info from the Sun and the Mail if saves reading all those big words and numbers.
Don't forget the ability to paddle over in a rubber dinghy! Judging by how poor our rowers did at the Tokyo Olympics we need some new oarsmen. A gold medal in Paris for each of them could be cashed in for a British passpor!
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If you have a parent, grandparent or great grandparent born in the island of Ireland, or a parent or grandparent who has or had an Irish passport, you have an automatic right to work, claim state benefits and live in the UK indefinitely, a concept that predates the EU. It's all very complicated but has a lot to do with the once very weird British nationality and immigration rules that treated citizens of the Empire equally, including the fact that Ireland was officially a Dominion (like how Canada and Australia was) until 1949.
Me, watching this, knowing I have a UK borne parent and would just need to apply in person before even watching the video: Huh. Sure is a lot of work for a place I'm never gonna live.
This is really helpful. Thank you so much. I am gonna go watch this another half dozen times now.
correction: the graduate visa is *at least* two years: if you get a PhD it will last three years!
Surprised he didn't leave us out (BNO) haha. Was going to leave a snarky comment
Just adding some comments for marriage/family visas - You yourself do not require the income requirement - it can be your spouse only, you only, you together. Also, spouse visas do NOT need to wait 12 months on ILR - you can IMMEDIATELY apply for citizenship once you obtain your ILR. You can apply for ILR within 28 days prior to meeting your 5 year requirement.
(ahem) - CORRECTION on the UK Ancestry Visa - not if you’re technically an “Old Bastard”! - Born to a UK Citizen? - don’t even try it if you were born Out Of Wedlock, specifically before they corrected the law (1983-ish), because legally they consider you “a Bastard Illegitimate Second Class Human for the rest of your life”. - Am I angry about this? You Betcha! - Will it ever stop being a thorn in my psyche that the one thing I thought I couldn’t be denied by my British father, was access to UK Citizenship. Ha Ha - his misogynistic miserly refusal to marry my mother after two kids, cemented this most hurtful denial. - The British consulate was very polite as I burst into a frenetic crying jag. They said that if he had ever married her, then it wouldn’t pose a problem, and unfortunately when they did change the law, it wasn’t applied retroactively. 🤦🏼♀️- my American mother 🇺🇸 met my British father 🇬🇧 on a Hippie Commune in Canada 🇨🇦 - so I’m a dedicated thorn in the side of the Flower Children 🌸. Absurdly, it was no problem getting my US citizenship thru Derivation. Le Sigh. 🤦🏼♀️♥️ - love your videos - from the Canadian girl with a British accent, living in Hollywood -
I was just going through the gov website and apparently it’s £1630 now for the citizenship application.
This is quite interesting, thanks for explaining it!
As a Brit who is marrying an American next year, the family visa is going to be a massive pain. She got lucky and the graduate visa was created while she was a student too. Those yearly NHS surcharges definitely add up though and are ridiculous considering if you work you then pay taxes for the NHS. Also now all the prices are going up ugh