Hi All
I have been a long time reader of these forums and have found them an invaluable source of information but now I need some help to.
I am an Australian citizen and my wife is British and we have been married just over 11 years. We have decided to go back to the UK but unfortunately my wife does not meet the income threshold to be able to sponsor me as she only works part time. We have luckily managed to negotiate with my current employer to transfer me to our UK office which will happen under a Type 2 ICT visa. All good so far.
For reasons I wont get into they will not put our 2 children (8 and 4) on my visa so we are in the process of applying for their own UK passports. Our oldest has had one previously so this is not an issue but on applying for our youngest we found out that neither mine or my wife’s middle names have been put on her birth certificate and the application will not be accepted.
We rang the Australian birth registry office and they have said they need to investigate this which will take 5-6 weeks. If it is their error they will fix if free of charge and if we left the info off the registration they will charge us $55. We offered to pay the fee then just to get it resolved but they will not do it until they have "investigated"
My question is, will the youngest traveling on an Australian passport with no long term visa cause an issue on arrival, considering I would have a long term visa and my wife and oldest child UK passports. We would also only have one way tickets. Once we arrive there we would look at getting a UK passport showing her entitlement to remain but we don’t want to have to wait for the registry office to fix up the birth certificate and then the passport time on top of that. We were hoping to be gone before December this year.
Many thanks
sul75
I have been a long time reader of these forums and have found them an invaluable source of information but now I need some help to.
I am an Australian citizen and my wife is British and we have been married just over 11 years. We have decided to go back to the UK but unfortunately my wife does not meet the income threshold to be able to sponsor me as she only works part time. We have luckily managed to negotiate with my current employer to transfer me to our UK office which will happen under a Type 2 ICT visa. All good so far.
For reasons I wont get into they will not put our 2 children (8 and 4) on my visa so we are in the process of applying for their own UK passports. Our oldest has had one previously so this is not an issue but on applying for our youngest we found out that neither mine or my wife’s middle names have been put on her birth certificate and the application will not be accepted.
We rang the Australian birth registry office and they have said they need to investigate this which will take 5-6 weeks. If it is their error they will fix if free of charge and if we left the info off the registration they will charge us $55. We offered to pay the fee then just to get it resolved but they will not do it until they have "investigated"
My question is, will the youngest traveling on an Australian passport with no long term visa cause an issue on arrival, considering I would have a long term visa and my wife and oldest child UK passports. We would also only have one way tickets. Once we arrive there we would look at getting a UK passport showing her entitlement to remain but we don’t want to have to wait for the registry office to fix up the birth certificate and then the passport time on top of that. We were hoping to be gone before December this year.
Many thanks
sul75