UK Visa Consultants

Chauhan Spouse Visa Solicitors in London are known for providing competent and responsible assistance to clients from all over the world. Harding Mitchell is a well-known group of lawyers that specializes in all elements of immigration law. One of our areas of expertise is the Spouse Visa category, where our lawyers have successfully assisted couples in securing entrance permission for their partners from abroad and acquiring the visa in a timely manner. Here's Everything You Need to Know About Getting a UK Spouse Visa: A Spouse Visa can be applied for by someone married to a British national or someone who has settled in the UK. If the applicant lives outside the United Kingdom, he or she must apply for entry permission as a spouse. The British High Commission/Embassy/Consulate in the applicant's country of residence will receive this application. The spouse visa is valid for a minimum of five years. The applicant will apply for Indefinite Leave to Remain and Naturalization wh...

A recent UN study reveals in graphic detail how the UK government has targeted black and minority ethnic communities. A Special Rapporteur for the United Nations Human Rights Council reported on the situation of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and other kinds of racial and religious intolerance in the United Kingdom at the end of May. The report's conclusions are alarming, or to use the report's own words, "analogously gloomy." A combination of hostile immigration policies – relics of the hostile environment era – and austerity measures has resulted in an increase in racially and religiously motivated hate crime, racial profiling, and socio-economic inequalities in BAME (black, Asian, and other minority ethnic) communities across the board. Cuts to public-sector financing have been disastrous, as readers are well aware. Over the last decade, vital services have been reduced by up to 40%. As per the Special Rapporteur, these actions have disproportionately i...

The Guardian reported in July that a Yorkshire school was encouraging female students to hide spoons in their underpants to alert authorities that they were victims of forced marriage. This would set off metal detectors at airports and inform airport authorities that the girls were being transported abroad. Nazreen (not her real name) was born in West Yorkshire and was one of the ladies featured in The Guardian's research. Nazreen, then 13, arrived home from school to find a surprise party arranged in her honour to celebrate her own engagement. Her parents informed her that they were celebrating her engagement to her 19-year-old cousin from Afghanistan, whom she had never met. Nazreen elaborates: “I had a typical childhood up until about the age of nine, and I was a bit of a tomboy. However, everything changed the moment I hit puberty. My mother was the main culprit, assuring me that I was maturing and becoming a woman. My mother informed me that where I was going, I didn't nee...

Domestic violence victims' cries have been drowned out by England's World Cup triumph thus far. However, if they lose, local officials have issued warnings about an increase in domestic violence incidents. Lancaster University discovered that when England lost a match in the 2014 World Cup, incidents increased 38%, and this is typical of World Cup tournaments: the 64 reports of domestic violence in 2002 increased to 99 in 2010, prompting several forces to support the campaign ‘Give Domestic Abuse the Red Card' this year. More than 90% of domestic abuse victims are female, while only 5% to 10% are male. According to the national charity Safe Lives, 15% of black, Asian, or ethnic minority (BAME) victims – and migrants on a Spouse Visa UK - bore the weight of violence in silence 1.5 times longer than White, British, or Irish women. And, as we all know, silence is lethal. Suffering in Isolation The founder of the Migrant Women Association, Mirela Sula, stated in the Guardian t...

With the media fully focused on Brexit, attention to the Government's domestic agenda has predictably decreased in recent times. However, criticism of a pending domestic abuse bill has highlighted the intersection between victims of domestic abuse and persons with precarious immigration status, demonstrating the unavoidable implications of Brexit on all sectors of government policymaking. According to one research, 27 out of 45 BAME migrant domestic abuse victims were reported to immigration services by police forces in 2015-2016, most likely as a result of the Home Office's hostile environment policy at the time. Furthermore, it has been discovered that BAME migrant domestic abuse victims statistically remain silent for 1.5 times longer than their white, British-born counterparts — owing to concerns for their future in the UK in the aftermath of a Spouse Visa revocation following divorce. In a nutshell, the law takes a step forward by adopting the first statutory definition o...