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Immigration Status and Windrush Claims

Every household member's immigration status proved and kept current: arrival timelines, residence evidence, Windrush Scheme and compensation claims, settlement and citizenship applications, and documents kept safe.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Immigration Status and Windrush Claims, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

Before you start: this plan is general information to help you organise your own affairs. It is not legal advice. Rules differ between countries and change often, so check decisions that matter with a qualified lawyer or the official authority in the country concerned.

What it installs.

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Starter tasks

🌴 Caribbean Life & Diaspora

Immigration Status and Windrush Claims

Getting immigration paperwork in order: proving status, Windrush scheme claims, settlement and citizenship applications, and keeping documents safe.

  1. Household immigration status snapshot
  2. Arrival history and residence timeline
  3. Master folder of status documents and scans
  4. Proving identity without a current passport
  5. Requesting your immigration records from the government
  6. Choosing a regulated immigration adviser
  7. Online immigration account set up and secured
  8. Year-by-year proof of residence grid
  9. Knowing exactly which status you hold
  10. Status expiry and renewal calendar
  11. Quarterly document folder and backup check
  12. Travel absence log for trips abroad
  13. Yearly residence evidence top-up
  14. Case log for applications in progress
  15. Reporting address changes to the immigration agency
  16. Annual family status review
  17. Watching rule, fee and form changes
  18. Status proof pack for work, renting and healthcare
  19. How the Windrush Scheme decides eligibility
  20. How Windrush compensation claims are assessed
  21. Reading decision letters and refusal reasons
  22. Right to work, rent and services checks explained
  23. Absences abroad and how they affect status
  24. Certified translations of Kreyol, French and Dutch records
  25. Spotting immigration fraud and unregulated advisers
  26. Windrush Scheme documentation application
  27. Windrush Compensation Scheme claim
  28. Settlement or permanent residence application
  29. Citizenship application where you live
  30. Deciding between staying settled and naturalising
  31. Replacing lost or outdated status documents
  32. Moving from a physical permit to a digital status record
  33. Correcting errors on your immigration record
  34. Citizenship test and language requirement preparation
  35. Biometrics appointment day preparation
  36. Interview day for a status or citizenship case
  37. Citizenship ceremony and oath day
  38. Updating records after a new status is granted
  39. Windrush advice surgery or community session
  40. Responding to a compensation offer
  41. Helping an elderly parent prove their status
  42. Registering children as citizens
  43. Claiming for a relative who has died
  44. Returning after being stranded abroad or wrongly removed
  45. Temporary protected status re-registration
  46. Bringing a spouse or partner to join you
  47. Status after separation, bereavement or abuse
  48. Escalating a decision beyond the first review
  49. Three-generation family status plan
  50. Volunteering as a claims helper in your community

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Household immigration status snapshot

Write down, for every person in the household, the status they rely on to live where they live: citizenship, indefinite leave to remain (permanent settlement in the UK), a green card, permanent residence or a time-limited visa. Families who came from the Caribbean in different decades often hold a mix, and the person everyone assumes is settled is sometimes the one with the weakest paperwork.

First tasks

  • List every household member and the status each one believes they hold
  • Find the document that proves each person's status and note its expiry
  • Mark anyone whose status has no proving document in the house
  • Choose the first case to work on and write down why

Arrival history and residence timeline

Dates of arrival, the passport travelled on, the age at arrival and every long spell abroad are the backbone of almost every status application and Windrush claim. Many people who came as children in the 1950s and 1960s travelled on a parent's passport and have no stamp of their own, so the timeline has to be rebuilt from family memory and old paperwork.

First tasks

  • Write the arrival date, port and ship or flight as best you know it
  • Ask the oldest relative what they remember about the arrival
  • List every address you have lived at with the years
  • Mark each date as proven, remembered or estimated

Master folder of status documents and scans

Original status documents get lost in house moves, thrown out with a parent's papers or handed to an adviser and never returned. One folder holding every original, with a scanned copy of each page stored somewhere you can reach from a phone, means a document requested by an employer or an immigration office can be produced in minutes. Keep it separate from everyday passports, which travel; the folder stays at home.

First tasks

  • Gather every original status document into one folder
  • Scan each page in colour at a readable resolution
  • Save the scans to encrypted cloud storage and a USB drive
  • Write an index of documents and where each one is kept

Make it yours.

Install Immigration Status and Windrush Claims, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Blueprints are general information to help you organise your own work. They are not medical, financial, legal or other professional advice. See the Terms.