caledonia

Hello all,

Just looking for clarification as I realise the settlement rules are ever changing.

My friend's family have just been granted their settlement visa to come to the UK. This has been an ongoing battle for over a year with the Home Office finally overturning their decision just before the appeal case was meant to be heard.

He has just started a four month contract overseas with his UK company,  as he had been told to expect the visas to take six months he thought this would be fine.

Now obviously he could bring his family here now (visas were issued Dec but they didnt get their passports until Friday from courier ) but they speak no English (visas were applied for before Nov 2010) and his elderly mother is not in good health. Ideally he would like to bring them in three months time when he will be here full time.

I understood this to be fine- it just means that he will need to apply for FLR when the visas expire in January 2013 as they will not qualify to apply for SET(M) until April 2013.

However some of his friends are saying this is not true - and some info seems to be they must enter within 28 days and some are saying 90 days. Are people getting mixed up or is it been so long since I had to apply that it has changed?

Many thanks for any info

Rachael