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UK ancestry definition

What does UK ancestry mean? In UK immigration practice, UK ancestry refers to eligibility for the UK Ancestry visa, a route under the Immigration Rules (Appendix UK Ancestry) allowing a Commonwealth citizen to live and work in the UK based on a qualifying grandparental connection. The applicant must prove that at least one grandparent was born in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man (the British Islands), or was born before 31 March 1922 in what is now the Republic of Ireland; a birth on a British‑registered ship or aircraft also qualifies. The grandparent must be a blood grandparent or related...

UK Ancestry route: eligibility, work and financial requirements, validity and suitability, dependants, extensions, settlement, procedure and administrative review - a practitioner's guide

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UK ancestry

UK Ancestry offers a pathway to enter and remain in the UK for Commonwealth citizens with a UK-born grandparent who intend to work in the UK. This route is widely viewed as appealing because:

it does not require sponsorship by a UK-based Employer, a process that can be expensive and onerous
there is no English language requirement for entry to the UK
it permits the principal applicant to bring their dependent partner and children to the UK
it leads to Settlement in the UK after five years

Although the Immigration Rules for the route were streamlined from 1 December 2020 for the post-Brexit immigration system via the Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules HC 813, few substantive policy changes were introduced. Previously found in Part 5 of the Rules, the route still has no points allocations and is therefore not a points-based route...

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