Hi

i'm wondering if any of you can help?

My aunt moved to canada back in 1981. She made the odd trip back to the uk for holidays. In 1993 she met an american whilst she was working as a carer for a lady who spent half the year in canada and the other half in america.

She married in 1994 and her son was born in 1996 in america. In 1997 she came over in an emergancy as my grandad (her dad) was taken ill and was not expected to recover. She never got round to applying for US citizenship and ended up having to re-apply to enter the US and it took her over a year to do this. All this time her husband was in the US and she was seperated from him with her son in England.

When she eventually got back to the US she spent the next 6-7 years working in the US with a green card. She is still with her american husband but a few years ago when they had the forest fires in California they were caught up in it and lost everything. Since then they have struggled to make ends meet and have no other family in the US. My uncle who is a US citizen has health problems and as he is a vietnam war veteran gets his health care from the veterans association. They have decided to look into moving to the uk where there is lots of family to support them.

The issues that i'd like to find answers too are;

Will my aunt who is a UK citizen be able to come over here and look for work straight away?

Will she be entitled to health care on the NHS?

Will my cousin who is now 14 be able to stay over here under dual citizenship and what would he have to do to do this?

Will my cousin also be entitled to health care on the NHS as a dual citizen?

Will my uncle be allowed entry to the UK considering his age (over 60) and health problems?

Would he at any point be entitled to health care on the NHS? he would still be able to get health treatment from US military bases in the UK but they are miles from where we live.

How do we go about applying for him to come over here?

Will he still be entitled to any US pension he has contributed too if he's living in the UK or would he be entitled to a UK state pension at any point?


sorry if this is a duplication of questions but i've read lots of other posts and i feel the circumstances in this case dont match.

They are currently homeless in the US and if they could come over here they could live with my gran (my aunt's mum) until they got on their feet.

Thank you in advance for any help or advice.

Having abandoned her green card once, don't you think it would be a good idea for her to become a US citizen before thinking of doing the same thing a second time?

Did she also abandon her resident status in Canada? If she became a Canadian citizen, is it an option to return to Canada?

Your uncle can be sponsored for a spouse visa. Once resident in Britain, he could use the NHS. http://www.ukvisas.gov.uk

Your cousin should get a British consular birth certificate and British passport to prove citizenship. Yes, as a British citizen he's entitled to live in the UK, use the NHS, etc.

And for clarification anyone living in the UK who intends to stay is entitled to NHS facilities irrespective of nationality.

Thank you for your replies... JAJ, unfortunately I don't think they have the luxury of being able to apply for my aunts US citizenship. They are currently homeless in california. They are staying in a motel funded by my grand parents and that can't go on forever.

They are just worried that my uncle wouldn't be able to stay here because of his medical problems. That is their main concern.

They are also worried that my aunt wouldn't be entitled to come back and work etc because she has been out of the country for so long.

Also the issue with any pension my uncle has paid into in the US.

As your Aunt is a UK citizen she can just walk back in & get a job straight away.
I can't help on your other questions, sorry.

Your uncle can still collect any US pension regardless of what country he is living in.