BritInParis

Nothing, other than register with your local GP as normal.

mikelincs

The NHS is residency based, so once you move back permanently you are eligible for NHS treatment from day 1.

Novocastrian

It can't but neither Priti nor Boris give a flying one.

Here's another report in the Independent which might interest you... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a9061476.html

Take back control?

BritInParis

I know you would like that to be true but it isn't. Reading more into it, it looks like it's just announcing of existing legal default as if it was a new policy. The only new policy is deciding not putting any further measures in place.

I know VFS well enough - they've put me out of a job twice

Novocastrian

Sorry to hear that, but what was disturbing in the report was the location of the various bits and pieces of the company "governance".. Mauritius, Caymans, Luxembourg etc. Not the most transparent locations for a company who receive vast quantities of very personal information and money from visa applicants all over the world who wish to move to other countries all over the world.

Ugly stuff.

BritInParis

Yes, clearly a tax dodge and scandal-in-waiting as well as a whole host of other problems, but unfortunately we lost that argument a long time ago.

Novocastrian

I can't expect you to say who "we" were, but I'd appreciate knowing who "they" were?

BritInParis

It’s a long story but it was basically an argument between the Home Office and the FCO over real estate costs at the start of austerity. Net result was that everyone lost out including the taxpayer. Buy me a pint one day and I’ll tell you the whole sorry saga