Advice required please. Our friends daughter is approaching eighteen, her mother has ILR and I assumed that her daughter would be on the same visa type, but her mother says that she is required to re apply for her visa in next year, as it is due to expire can anybody say if this is right ? what would she need to do to apply will she have to pass the life in the uk test ?

Cheers

How long has the daughter been in the UK, and at the time the daughter applied for her settlement visa what permission to stay in the UK did her mother have?

Scouse.

How long has the daughter been in the UK, and at the time the daughter applied for her settlement visa what permission to stay in the UK did her mother have?

Scouse.

Her mother I believe was on a 5 year leave to remain, her daughter has been here around 3 and half years.

This may be a bit tricky without sight of the passports, but I'll give it a go.

As a general principle, and on the assumption that the daughter entered the UK as a dependant of her mother, her visa and her mother's should have finished on the same day and they should have then applied for indefinite leave simultaneously. However, if the daughter entered the UK in her own right, for example as a student, her immigration status won't necessarily run in tandem with her mother's. If she is 18 or over when she applies for indefinite leave, she will need to either sit an ESOL with Citizenship course, or pass the Life in the UK test.

If you could garner a bit more info, more precise guidance could be given.

Scouse.

This may be a bit tricky without sight of the passports, but I'll give it a go.

As a general principle, and on the assumption that the daughter entered the UK as a dependant of her mother, her visa and her mother's should have finished on the same day and they should have then applied for indefinite leave simultaneously. However, if the daughter entered the UK in her own right, for example as a student, her immigration status won't necessarily run in tandem with her mother's. If she is 18 or over when she applies for indefinite leave, she will need to either sit an ESOL with Citizenship course, or pass the Life in the UK test.

If you could garner a bit more info, more precise guidance could be given.

Scouse.

Cheers for the info scouse just to add and I dont know how relevant this is her mother had already obtained ILR prior to bringing her daughter to the UK ( this is in the good old days of one year settlement and on to ILR), so in that instance is it possible that she could be on a different visa type ? Sorry to still be vague but I cant get sight of the passports at the moment. Oh! and slightly off the original topic the wife seems to think you can get a bankers draught for the daughters settlement visa actually at the VFS is this right ?