Hi all. A question for those who may have a bit better knowledge on migration to the UK.
As a bit of background I’m around 6th generation Tasmanian on every single family lineage I trace back (yes leaving myself open, bring on the inbred jokes). The most recent arrivals appear to be one lineage who arrived here from Bavaria in the 1850s. Every other line is earlier than that (all from the UK and Ireland)! Suffice to say it’s pretty clear I have absolutely no rights or avenues to UK or European passports. Or rights to abode in the UK, despite the vast majority of my ancestry being from that part of the world.
My wife and I had always intended on doing the overseas living experience to the UK and Europe via the youth mobility visa scheme open to under 30 YOs. But a house, pets and general life kind of all got in the way. Plus a global recession in 2008, when we intended to go, made us gun shy to quit our perfectly good jobs here to possibly join the unemployment queue in the UK. We did some extended travel for a few months over there, but it’s not really the same. And rather than satisfying the wanderlust, just made me hungry for more.
Anyway, it’s one massive regret that I’ve got that we never did it. And as I approach middle age and mid-career you start to realise how short life is and how you don’t want to live with regrets eating away at you. Hence, I’ve started trying to manufacture ways that we might be able to still open the door to doing something like this now we are older and certain visa avenues are closed.
We are both bachelor degree qualified. However neither of us has any special skills that would allow us to migrate under skills shortage lists as far as I can tell. So I started thinking, perhaps I could look to take a career break, apply for a post graduate course at a UK University and come in under a student visa. My question is, does anyone know if Mrs PT and our primary school aged children came with me under accompanying visas can Mrs PT work a regular full time job and our kids go to regular British school?
We’re in a financial situation where we fully own our house and could rent this out as an income stream to perhaps cover our rent in the UK. But if possible we would require one of us to be working to cover living expenses (this would be Mrs PT while I studied).
When in the UK, I observed the evidence of mass migration from all corners of the globe, but looked at every avenue I could find on the internet as to how I could possibly migrate (given we are past the age of being eligible for the youth mobility visa) and struggled to come up with much. Just cannot comprehend how all these people, often from countries with no historical links to the UK all get in, yet I struggle to. Our parents generation had it so much easier when there was freedom of movement among Commonwealth countries to the UK. But this was cut off after the UK joined the EU.
Alternatively, any other suggestions of migration pathways?