Need competent advise

[Sigma]

Hi there british forum users,
I need consultation with competent solicitor about the prospects and rules of long term residence in this country. Do you know of any professional immigration solicitor/law firm who can elaborate on this issue in detail? I would appreciate your assistance/referral.

[Hamid]

I can't give you any contact details, but little info from what i have learned during my 6 year stay here:
Prospects will depend on you, e.g. I would not want to bring up my children here, probably somewhere else not here. Financially you can earn money here, even if you don't have much experience. Rules are simple, you get a job, get a work visa, then in 5 years, you can get an indefinite leave here, even british citizenship. If you have degree you don't even have to get job first, you can apply as highly skilled migrant, and stay here to seek employment.
I will try find some contacts who can give professional advice.

hh

[Vector]

check these sites, there are some contacts you can find
link1 (http://www.chemodan.com.ua/forum/index.php),and link2 (http://www.rupoint.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=26)

UK official site (http://www.workingintheuk.gov.uk/content/working_in_the_uk/en/homepage.html)
if you get work permit, after 5 years you can aplly for indefinite stay(permanent residence), if marriage then 2 years (fictive marriage is option here). here (http://www.workpermit.com/uk/permanent.htm)

[Sigma]

I can't give you any contact details, but little info from what i have learned during my 6 year stay here:
Prospects will depend on you, e.g. I would not want to bring up my children here, probably somewhere else not here. Financially you can earn money here, even if you don't have much experience. Rules are simple, you get a job, get a work visa, then in 5 years, you can get an indefinite leave here, even british citizenship. If you have degree you don't even have to get job first, you can apply as highly skilled migrant, and stay here to seek employment.
I will try find some contacts who can give professional advice.

hh

Thanks for this info; I am aware of all these conditions. What I need is someone's real life experience and situations encountered, so that I ask him specific questions. However, don't you over-simplify getting HSMP?

[Hamid]

it depends on your qualifications, with PhD and being yonger that 28 years old, you get 70 points, 5 points should not be much problem if you have work experience. (in my case I don't have any, but hoping they will understand that I never had a chance to get involved in employment). If you are graduating from UK universities (scotland has young talant scheme which gives scottish graduates to stay for two years to seek employment), mostly science and engineering, you can apply to stay for a year to seek employment.
But finding a work that will provide a work visa is the best option, as you will not be involved in the application much.

hh

[Sigma]

Does anyone have an experience as a dependant of spouse?