Id cards for non eu nationals

[andypaul]

your misses got citizenship yet andy ?

i'm applying for the misses soon as shes taken her plab exam in london end of next month

i'm not hanging around til next year when they start this 'probationary citizenship' and i'm wondering what the fee will be, and what else is lined up. i think it could be the death of ILR as we know it, and it will be probationary citizenship, and maybe only valid for x years, so you have to become a citizen or apply and pay again. that will get rid of the people in no mansland who have ILR, and are not a temp visitor or not being a citizen.

Nope she can apply soon 3 years and one day i think it is.

The great saving drive for the next fee is still in progress

In principle i agree with the become a Brit or move on. But i know of examples of couples where one stays a motherland citzen for reasons such as when the Indians were hounded out of Africa. Many of the generation who were hounded up are some of the people who love and respect the UK the most.
Left massive mental scars with people and many people found it hard to just be one or the other. Also many indians untill quite recently could either be British or Indian so one kept the indian citzenship up just in case required.

I would not be surprised if some phill couples in the UK do this one stays a Phill with ilr and the other gets British citzenship for various reasons.

[johncar54]

the idea of the ID card in the uk, is that everyone will have one and should be carried with you at all times to prove who you are..

its not to replace a passport, which shouldn't be carried with you at all time, ID card is relatively a lot cheaper and easier to produce than a passport

Maybe I did not make it clear. I live in Spain where carrying an ID is compulsory and the only acceptable ID the Brits have is their passport, so they / we must carry it. That applies to people living in Spain and visitors but as I said many people 'break the law' and carry a copy or an alternative document. In most circumstances we get by with that.

We used to all have a Residencia card but unfortunately they changed the law. An ID card is so easy to carry so convenient to have. Not having one is a problem.

The ID card the Spanish have will allow entry to various countries including UK and Ireland but the point I was making was if an ID costs around a fiver why should a UK one be so expensive ?

[aromulus]

The ID card the Spanish have will allow entry to various countries including UK and Ireland but the point I was making was if an ID costs around a fiver why should a UK one be so expensive ?

I guess it is for the same reasons as to why cars, food, books, clothes, shoes, airport taxes, income tax, Council tax, rents, mortgages, fuel, the air you breathe and basically everything else are more expensive.....

Rip off Britain....

[darren-b]

I would not be surprised if some phill couples in the UK do this one stays a Phill with ilr and the other gets British citzenship for various reasons.

As you can be dual filipino/british I'd personally be surprised if they didn't both apply because it only another £80 for a joint application (£735 rather than £655).