Visas & Paperwork
Permission is granted against a described life, and lives change
A residence permission is usually decided on a set of facts about your work, your address and your…
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Visas & Paperwork
How permission to stay actually works, in general shape rather than in detail.
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Visas & Paperwork
A permanent status is a different object from a longer temporary one
Most countries have some form of durable residence sitting above the renewable kind, and it is reached by a…
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Visas & Paperwork
Citizenship and residence are governed by two different bodies of law
Permission to live somewhere and membership of the nation are separate legal questions decided by separate…
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Visas & Paperwork
Nobody is keeping a reliable record of your movements except you
People assume that borders, tickets and passport stamps add up to an authoritative account of where they…
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Visas & Paperwork
Travelling while an application is pending is a separate decision
Having applied for something is not the same as holding it, and leaving the country in the interval can…
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Visas & Paperwork
The immigration help your employer pays for is working for your employer
Company-arranged relocation support is genuinely useful and it has a client, and the client is the…
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Visas & Paperwork
Official forms assume a standard life and many lives are not standard
Bureaucratic forms encode a model of a normal person, and the ordinary variations of a real biography…
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Visas & Paperwork
An office asks the same question four times because four things are being checked
The repetition that makes bureaucracy feel obtuse is usually a set of genuinely separate verifications…
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